"here we are this big rock in space, we've covered 70% of the surface with water. Then we've got this crazy gas around the entire planet. That's our atmosphere. We're spinning it a thousand miles an hour as we're rocketing through the solar system. The sun is roasting one half and the other half is facing the vast void of space and is cooling." is going to start being my reason to get a second slice of cake for dessert
Wanted to be a meteorologist studying tornadoes and thunderstorms since I was 5. Going to school for it next year (when I'm 25) so this video was an instant click and made my heart skip a beat
When i hear the question about opening your windows during a tornado, my response is always "if the tornado wants your windows open, it'll open em for you"
I was in southwest part of Wichita with my kids (probably Haysville) April 26th, 1991 when a bunch of tornados where coming through. My kids and I had been in our motel room eating tacos, when my oldest son looked out a high window and said, "That cloud looks like a tornado.". It was! We had only the motel's hallway to take cover in. That initial tornado made significant damage to McConnell AFB. Our building was untouched. After that one passed, all of the motel guests were looking out the door at the end of the hall that opened to the outside. There were a mix of large and skinny tornados (5-7) heading towards our motel. They either passed far north of our location or dissipated. That event was most memorable for the amount of tornadoes we saw that day. I've lived through many a tornado, having lived in south central Kansas for 5 years. Also others in Iowa and Illinois. One was on a 2 day canoe trip where I took shelter in a ditch with my father. The smell is something you'll never forget. And the sound of a freight train. I sure wish we'd had cell phone camera's back on the fateful day.
Hmm, was it truly a real tornado, or just something similar, like a landspout etc., also there seems to be no record of a tornado striking Oahu or Hawaii for that matter in 1968., or are you referring to a different area that is called Oahu
@herisuryadi6885 I saw it slice a pickup truck and its driver in half lengthwise, so I don't much care what it was called. It looked like a tornado to me and, apparently, to the United States Air Force.
I love that my family's tornado video is still being shared ever where. Washington, Illinois tornado November 2013 filmed till I was pushed down the steps
"Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas" Nebraska: "What am I chopped liver to you?" Seriously though, we get so many tornados, and I was always told we were part of the valley
Ozone is part of the mixed gases we smell when we "smell rain". The distinct smell was remarked by scientists in the late 1800s, Australian scientists used the term "Petrichor" for the bundle of smells in 1964. Ms Arnold mentioned rain + asphalt smells which is probably what most of us now smell most often.
Yeah, I was the idiot kid who'd park my lawn chair in the driveway next to the all-metal mailbox during a thunderstorm. "Nature wouldn't dare interfere with delivery of the mail, right?"
@@marty0063 the electric field inside a conductor is zero, so you have probable chances of escaping a lightning strike on your roof, but I'd say you got lucky.
@@laxminarayananks1520 that’s good to know thanks. Lightning strikes were never that close to our house when I was outside. I don’t believe our house ever got struck either despite having a metal roof. Many houses in town had them. But I did get lucky another time after we’d moved to another city. I was outside cleaning up birthday decorations that had been blown all over the place in a sudden unexpected storm when there was a loud boom and everything around me was yellow. I forgot about the cleaning and went inside very quickly. Another time there was a close lightning strike to our house and an electrical toy in my son’s room that we weren’t in at the moment started playing music. It’s never done that before. Someone has to push the buttons for it to start playing music. I’ve always wondered how the storm was able to cause that to happen.
To the thunder question at 18:38, when lightning strikes it heats the air to about 25 000 degrees Celsius or 45 000 degrees Fahrenheit, which is about 5x the temperature of the surface of the sun, so the air heats up and expands so quickly like she said and you hear that loud noise. P.S. Wrote this before watching the next part. lol
This was fascinating! I'm a self-proclaimed weather junkie - she explained everything so concisely and with such enthusiasm. Wired always knows where it's at with these experts 💯
Just to be clear, I wasn't asking that myths question, I was answering it LOL! I'm also a meteorologist and wrote that blog article to help explain the myths vs facts of weather. Thanks for the mention though that was cool LOL!
The "lightning doesn't strike the same place twice" adage is so weird because it doesn't even require a meteorology degree to debunk. Lightning rods wouldn't function if it were true.
There's a lot of bits of info that are like 90% correct like that, kinda odd, for example tornados can last more than an hour, plus when she said supercells always rotate counterclockwise, that's only true in the northern hemisphere. And the tornado alley moving east is hotly debated.
A small correction on the "smell of rain" answer: Yes, some of that smell is pollutants. But that's not all you're smelling. You're also smelling oils released by plants and bacteria in the soil. It's called petrichor.
Former swimmer here. I can confirm that it's protocol to get out of the water as soon as we see lightnings or hear thunders. We can continue swimming of it's just raining, but as soon as electrical activity begins, everybody's out of the water
Hold up, tornadoes can cross rivers? Next you're going to tell me that they can cross thresholds uninvited and don't have to count grains of rice! Honestly, I'd never heard that myth. The mountainous terrain thing was definitely something I used to believe though.
@@caudleryan123 I'm terribly sorry you had to experience that. Tornadoes scare me far more than the volcanoes I live near. But I wasn't being serious; of course they can cross rivers. I was making a joke about old vampire traditions. That being that they cannot cross running water and have an insatiable need to count things like grains of rice before proceeding with their business.
She said it's unlikely that two will combine, but that even if they do, their forces won't multiply to make a 'super tornado'. It's true that when two get close to each other, they usually cancel out.
Think she could've mentioned the Fujiwara Effect with this instance. Basically, the 2 cyclones will rotate around a common point before they either disperse, or the dominant core destroys the weaker core. When the dominant core removes the weaker core, it will be weaker itself but could re-intensify if conditions are right.
She was just dispelling what you always see in movies where two storms merge and create a super storm. In most cases two cyclones merging are more likely to disrupt each other, but in rare cases can become much stronger together.
Another thing worth noting in the trailer shown there about it; The Twin tornadoes did not combine in the movie, and the large tornado shown after that comment is a total different one on a different day. So there the trailer tricked us, lol.
I must tell this story here. When my son was about 3-1/2 years old, he explained the weather this way : "The world spins and it makes the wind. Then the wind pushes the clouds together until they pop and it rains." At the time I was so impressed that I couldn't even argue with him, though now I wish I had thought to quiz him further.
4:55 fully shut car windows are actually surprisingly strong. you could easily (with a glove) punch through a window that is open, but your hand will break first if the window is shut.
I can prove that tornadoes can go over rivers and mountains and last a while because it literally happened to me - search the June 1st, 2011 tornado in Massachusetts. It was our freakiest storm ever and one I'll never forget.
Cyrena is my favorite meteorologist! She's answered many of my (probably dumb) questions but always so informative and you can feel how much she loves to teach/talk about all weather and scientific aspects of it. I'm a Weather Weenie of hers, you should be too.
Great example of Tornadoes hitting mounine areas is Albuquerque NM 1985. It was a EF2 and caused 1 death. It his lousisiana and I40 area. Salt Lake city also had a Tornado which was also a EF2 this also caused 1 death and a lot of damage.
"Tornadoes can cross water." Yes, because whoever came up with the myth that tornadoes can't cross water clearly was mixing up a tornado with a vampire.
this is relatively common practice for Wired interviews, taking posts that have a question _in them_ even if the original tweet has some answer already in it. it was a worthwhile question for one expert to pose to their audience, and unsurprisingly it is going to be worthwhile for other experts to pose to other audiences.
@@timz9862 The salt needs to be in an aqueous state to conduct electricity (that's where the role of the water comes in), so you don't want to be in the middle of a salt quarry during a rainstorm.
1:45 is my favorite part. a lot of things that seem really easy, or very predictable, is because the experts who spend their entire lives studying certain fields KNOW what to look for or take into consideration what the average person wouldn't even think of or understand
Tornado Alley actually has 3 different areas based upon what month it is. Overall with them: it's basically Texas to the Dakots (north and south) with Nebraska to Indiana (east and west.) How do I know? The strongest August F5 Tornado in the country happened a week after I was born. The Plainfield Tornado of 28 August 1990 with winds estimated up to 320 mph but usually said between 305 and 310 based on what source you go to. The cloud that spun it went directly over me in Aurora, Illinois. I will never go by the Enhanced Fujita Scale.
The first thing she said about Tornado Alley shifting east is wrong. Tornadoes have always occurred in that eastern region known as Dixie Alley, which includes northern Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and Tennessee. A warmer climate does not change the amount or severity of tornadoes, since you need both warm and cold air. If anything, climate change would cause tornadoes to happen more often in the great plains/midwest, rather than Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas etc, due to the fact that warm moist air in the gulf could shoot farther north.
Dixie alley is usually active early in the year, so February to April. That's different than the May to June for tornado alley. Because the temperatures in those regions are becoming warmer earlier, we are seeing years with greater tornado potential even in winter. My town was hit by a tornado last December for reference!
Really nice! But also as a reminder, water is does not conduct electricity, you do, water just has a very low level of resistance aka electricity can move through it more freely.
The window thing: it wasn't about windows breaking. It was about the low pressure, and it the house is sealed tight, then the walls will bulge out and the roof will pop off.
Which is still wrong, because the windows are the weakest part of the structure and would break long before the roof pops off. Not that it matters; houses have enough natural leaks that they can equalize the pressure on their own. If they can't, then the windows will break and equalize it. And if that's not enough, then the pickup truck flying through your wall to land on the couch will make a big enough hole to solve the problem. Don't waste time dinking with windows, just seek shelter.
Today our local meteorologist taught us about positive and negative lightning. We had a few positive lightning strikes last night and those suckers were LOUD
spot on and didn't waste time to answer each question. also very informative and educational! ...now i wanna have ma favorite show stormchasers again :/
A simpler way to answer the question of how we predict weather is that we can track and measure what’s happening over a vast area of land and find patterns that allow us to build models that combine previously observed patterns with current conditions.
Curiously, it is the impurities in water that conduct electricity. Pure water is quite resistant. However all water naturally occurring on earth has enough impurities to be dangerously conductive.
I don’t mind that meteorologists can’t predict weather very far ahead. I mind that so many apps and news organizations pretend that they can. I have learned to take the long-range forecast as an expected trend that may change tomorrow. But they never seem to include a disclaimer right up front about the data they offer us.
I've watched plenty of secondary vortices around main tornadoes. Eventually they become assimilated. I dont believe it makes the main vortex stronger, but they do spawn nearby and merge regularly.
Not crazy. You are smelling things in the air and the pressure is changing. Most people can/could smell and feel it, but they just don’t pay attention to the world around them. 🤷♀️
When I was 13 or 14 I came very very close to being hit by lightning. I was about to start a summer job helping out the janitors in the building my dad worked at. This building was at the top of a hill and had a large patio/paved area around it. While the property manager was showing me around outside, we both pause and things just felt quiet and weird. Then my vision gets completely filled with white light that was pinkish at the edges for a fraction of a second and it was gone. The manager and I looked at each other and then just kept on. I didn’t realize until years later what had happened.
Just saw the movie. Really liked it. Started a bit slow, but got better as it went. Some of the things they did, I don’t believe are possible at this time. For example, triangulating a tornado that is constantly moving and changing. The movie (and the previous movie) made it seem like you see tornados every time you chase.
I wish I could have sent in a question. The day this was uploaded, it had been storming outside all day where I live, but eventually the strong storms passed and all that was left was heavy rain, except for a single, extremely loud crack of thunder which startled me. I've heard of super bolts, and I wonder if that was one of them.
Just saw Twisters in the theater. Epic. Definitely did the first film justice. But it’s nice to hear the real science behind the films. 😂 Especially the first film’s ending with horse reigns saving Jo and Bill’s lives. 😂🌪️
What i really want to know is when the weather forecasters get it wrong ( like this years hurricane season forecast so far) and why, first get them to admit it then teach us.
Tornado Alley is where Tornadoes occur most in the world. Tornadoes can form anywhere in the world with the right climate, however Tornado Alley is one of the only locations in the world with the perfect climate for tornadoes to happen every year/ and conditions to have larger more devastating tornadoes. It’s rare to have an F4 to F5 tornado anywhere else, that’s why Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas are referred to as the Tornado Alley. These states have the most occurring and most disastrous tornadoes annually. With climate shift, bigger tornadoes are beginning to occur more often in more eastern and northern parts of the country like Alabama and up into Illinois.
One thing that confuses me when they talk about lightening being as hot as the surface of the sun, which I have to imagine, is really really hot. Yet, when lightening strikes very near to someone, assuming they don't get electrocuted, it usually does nothing more than scare the crap out of them. I would think that were it as hot as the surface of the sun, that being anywhere within a mile of it, would cause serious burns to the skin, and that just its proximity would cause many things to burst into flames. What am I missing here?
13:20 another thing that is definantly unrealistic is the tornado where they are under a bridge and i think they said it was an Ef3 maybe a 2 idk but anyways it literally demolished a barn in a second while for the Ef5 it took a couple second.... erm logic
So the leather belts would break under tension due to the high winds, or would the people lashed into them just be shish-ka-bobbed by the debris? I can understand the debris at least.
Wow. Partly cloudy and partly sunny sounds very counterintuitive to me: partly cloudy = sunny-ish (5/8 clear); partly sunny = cloudy-ish 50%-50%. I would have thought "partly cloudy" was a kind of "cloudy" but it is actually a kind of sunny day... :-(
Weather forecast is so difficult and especially tornado prediction! My best weather prediction is a device that measures air pressure i.e barometer. Never fails.
"here we are this big rock in space, we've covered 70% of the surface with water. Then we've got this crazy gas around the entire planet. That's our atmosphere. We're spinning it a thousand miles an hour as we're rocketing through the solar system. The sun is roasting one half and the other half is facing the vast void of space and is cooling." is going to start being my reason to get a second slice of cake for dessert
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i came to the comments to see this written out 😸💖
Eat dessert first!
Me when I’m failing a class
Wanted to be a meteorologist studying tornadoes and thunderstorms since I was 5. Going to school for it next year (when I'm 25) so this video was an instant click and made my heart skip a beat
You can do it! Best wishes
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Best of luck.
Me too! I’m starting my journey to my degree in the fall of 25! ❤
Awesome! I'm going for atmospheric sciences. I've always loved meteorology.
I love the way she answers questions with just the right amount of information.
I thought she'd be long winded.
ha
Ah! Ahhhh haha!
You need to rain in the puns.
Well played.
Touché 💀💀
Tornado earrings, nice touch!
Ms. Frizzle!
My idiotic brain was trying to figure out which state or country these earrings were. And theyre twisters. 🌪️😂
A friend of mine sells them!
Came to say this
I never new lady stormchasers existed.
When i hear the question about opening your windows during a tornado, my response is always "if the tornado wants your windows open, it'll open em for you"
Yeah, it's funny how she just casually mentions flying two-by-four debris in there...
Wired has it down to a science with these videos. 💯💯
Her rant about "and you want me to tell you what's happening in 5 days?" was just too good.
I was in southwest part of Wichita with my kids (probably Haysville) April 26th, 1991 when a bunch of tornados where coming through. My kids and I had been in our motel room eating tacos, when my oldest son looked out a high window and said, "That cloud looks like a tornado.". It was! We had only the motel's hallway to take cover in. That initial tornado made significant damage to McConnell AFB. Our building was untouched. After that one passed, all of the motel guests were looking out the door at the end of the hall that opened to the outside. There were a mix of large and skinny tornados (5-7) heading towards our motel. They either passed far north of our location or dissipated. That event was most memorable for the amount of tornadoes we saw that day. I've lived through many a tornado, having lived in south central Kansas for 5 years. Also others in Iowa and Illinois. One was on a 2 day canoe trip where I took shelter in a ditch with my father. The smell is something you'll never forget. And the sound of a freight train. I sure wish we'd had cell phone camera's back on the fateful day.
Wow!
That sounds like either pure adrenaline or nightmare fuel, depending on who's telling the story. Regardless, that is absolutely insane!
It's interesting that you say the smell was unforgettable. What did it smell like?
@@ninjabiscuit electricity
The smell might be ozone, which can be produced by lightning.
10:30 I'm here post-Helene and mid-Milton. Guess they weren't wrong about that, huh.
My fourth grade field trip encountered the first recorded tornado on Oah'u. This was in 1968.
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Hmm, was it truly a real tornado, or just something similar, like a landspout etc.,
also there seems to be no record of a tornado striking Oahu or Hawaii for that matter in 1968., or are you referring to a different area that is called Oahu
@herisuryadi6885 I saw it slice a pickup truck and its driver in half lengthwise, so I don't much care what it was called. It looked like a tornado to me and, apparently, to the United States Air Force.
I love that my family's tornado video is still being shared ever where. Washington, Illinois tornado November 2013 filmed till I was pushed down the steps
I have watched a lot about that tornado. That was a crazy one
"Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas"
Nebraska: "What am I chopped liver to you?"
Seriously though, we get so many tornados, and I was always told we were part of the valley
shes way off all the maps have Ne in it
@onyxdevil26 oh good, I'm not crazy 😭
Definitely not Tornado Alley but Xenia, Ohio is cursed. I wouldn't live there if both Musk and Bezos gave me all their money to do it.
Dixie alley (Eastern of Tornado alley) is also a thing and not new, so I'm not sure why so many meteorologists are acting like it's a recent shift.
@@neko7606she is trying to get a climate change comment in. Dixie Alley has been getting bad tornados for decades. This isn't new.
Surprised she didn't mention ozone in answer to "can you smell rain?" That's common, measurable, and well documented! 😎✌️
i was waiting to hear the word "petrichor" but it never happened. as a pluviophile, i feel the magic in that word.
Ozone is part of the mixed gases we smell when we "smell rain". The distinct smell was remarked by scientists in the late 1800s, Australian scientists used the term "Petrichor" for the bundle of smells in 1964. Ms Arnold mentioned rain + asphalt smells which is probably what most of us now smell most often.
meh, she got a couple things wrong, like the water answer as well. It's ok.
@kimm6589 don't stop there. Tell us exactly what she got wrong. Personally, I would love to know.
@@pynn1000 And Dr. A.J. Hagen-Smit used O³ in determining the processes of vehicle-smog formation in Southern California back in the day!
I’m the person that sits on the porch when lighting is happening haha
Haha, me too. Before we moved I’d sit on the front porch to listen to the thunder and watch the rain. We had a metal roof as well.
Same, i love watching the lightning
Yeah, I was the idiot kid who'd park my lawn chair in the driveway next to the all-metal mailbox during a thunderstorm. "Nature wouldn't dare interfere with delivery of the mail, right?"
@@marty0063 the electric field inside a conductor is zero, so you have probable chances of escaping a lightning strike on your roof, but I'd say you got lucky.
@@laxminarayananks1520 that’s good to know thanks. Lightning strikes were never that close to our house when I was outside. I don’t believe our house ever got struck either despite having a metal roof. Many houses in town had them. But I did get lucky another time after we’d moved to another city. I was outside cleaning up birthday decorations that had been blown all over the place in a sudden unexpected storm when there was a loud boom and everything around me was yellow. I forgot about the cleaning and went inside very quickly. Another time there was a close lightning strike to our house and an electrical toy in my son’s room that we weren’t in at the moment started playing music. It’s never done that before. Someone has to push the buttons for it to start playing music. I’ve always wondered how the storm was able to cause that to happen.
To the thunder question at 18:38, when lightning strikes it heats the air to about 25 000 degrees Celsius or 45 000 degrees Fahrenheit, which is about 5x the temperature of the surface of the sun, so the air heats up and expands so quickly like she said and you hear that loud noise.
P.S. Wrote this before watching the next part. lol
This was fascinating! I'm a self-proclaimed weather junkie - she explained everything so concisely and with such enthusiasm. Wired always knows where it's at with these experts 💯
I'm a simple girl, I see Wired Tech Support and I click ❤️
Word.
Exactly...click and learn more 😉
Just to be clear, I wasn't asking that myths question, I was answering it LOL! I'm also a meteorologist and wrote that blog article to help explain the myths vs facts of weather. Thanks for the mention though that was cool LOL!
A good example of the risk of using SEO terms in your posts lol
I like that she’s wearing tornado earrings.
The "lightning doesn't strike the same place twice" adage is so weird because it doesn't even require a meteorology degree to debunk. Lightning rods wouldn't function if it were true.
6:12 that radar image is the 1999 Moore tornado, my family lost everything because of this tornado...
8:27 - I did not expect to see Tomasz Schafernaker, BBC meteorologist extraordinare, namechecked on this episode!
You’d think he’d already know this stuff. 😂
DVD-sized hale!? Wow. Fortunately it wasn’t CD sized
If it was 📼-sized, we'd be screwed.
It's called a VC (video cassette) @@oscarcacnio8418
@@oscarcacnio8418 Laserdisc!
I think they used DVD because my younger brother, who is 20 mind you, asked me what a CD was 😢
Hail that can store 4.7GB of data? Good thing it wasn't dual layer, or worse: Blu-ray!
Best 'Twisters' advertisement so far 🙌
Anyone here in 2024 hearing non stop about hurricane Milton? :(
Funny how they made it look like meteorologist Tomasz Schafernaker was asking them a question 🤣
Literally thought the same 😂
Storm chasers are heroes in my area. Y'all keep us alerted and safe. Thank you!!
Girl left out a few states in that Tornado description of “Tornado Alley”. I feel cheated. -South Dakotan
Lol, same!
- A former South Dakotan
There's a lot of bits of info that are like 90% correct like that, kinda odd, for example tornados can last more than an hour, plus when she said supercells always rotate counterclockwise, that's only true in the northern hemisphere. And the tornado alley moving east is hotly debated.
I can't smell rain or feel it but I can definitely feel the humidity rising. And it's not a good feeling at all.
One of the best of these i've seen. Clear, informative and direct without being dry or humourless.
A small correction on the "smell of rain" answer: Yes, some of that smell is pollutants. But that's not all you're smelling. You're also smelling oils released by plants and bacteria in the soil. It's called petrichor.
A small correction: petrichor is specifically and importantly defined as the odor rain. If there's no rain, by definition there's no petrichor.
Growing up, Twister was one of my favorite movies. :D
Great video, great answers, great delivery and camera presence!
I love all scientists, but I have a special place in my heart for people like her. I refuse to elaborate.
Former swimmer here. I can confirm that it's protocol to get out of the water as soon as we see lightnings or hear thunders. We can continue swimming of it's just raining, but as soon as electrical activity begins, everybody's out of the water
Hold up, tornadoes can cross rivers? Next you're going to tell me that they can cross thresholds uninvited and don't have to count grains of rice!
Honestly, I'd never heard that myth. The mountainous terrain thing was definitely something I used to believe though.
Yep. The 1925 Tri-State tornado crossed the Mississippi River.
The 2019 Wetumpka, AL tornado that took out our house crossed the Coosa River and very nearly hit the hospital. We lived right next to the river.
@@caudleryan123 I'm terribly sorry you had to experience that. Tornadoes scare me far more than the volcanoes I live near.
But I wasn't being serious; of course they can cross rivers. I was making a joke about old vampire traditions. That being that they cannot cross running water and have an insatiable need to count things like grains of rice before proceeding with their business.
@@BIGBLOCK5022006 The 1925 tri state tornado must have been a product of "climate change", based on her words.
2:14 “Scientifically, that’s kinda what happens” LMFAOOOOOO
Once sheltered during an F3 in 1990 I heard a distinct growling into a dull roar, not the typical frieght train
"Tornadoes won't combine to form one super tornado"
* Hesston, Kansas has entered the chat*
Thank you! I was just thinking, this happened not too long ago
She said it's unlikely that two will combine, but that even if they do, their forces won't multiply to make a 'super tornado'. It's true that when two get close to each other, they usually cancel out.
Think she could've mentioned the Fujiwara Effect with this instance. Basically, the 2 cyclones will rotate around a common point before they either disperse, or the dominant core destroys the weaker core. When the dominant core removes the weaker core, it will be weaker itself but could re-intensify if conditions are right.
She was just dispelling what you always see in movies where two storms merge and create a super storm. In most cases two cyclones merging are more likely to disrupt each other, but in rare cases can become much stronger together.
Another thing worth noting in the trailer shown there about it; The Twin tornadoes did not combine in the movie, and the large tornado shown after that comment is a total different one on a different day. So there the trailer tricked us, lol.
I must tell this story here. When my son was about 3-1/2 years old, he explained the weather this way : "The world spins and it makes the wind. Then the wind pushes the clouds together until they pop and it rains." At the time I was so impressed that I couldn't even argue with him, though now I wish I had thought to quiz him further.
Ahaha
Excuse me ma'am Missouri has been apart of Tornado Alley my whole 27 years... We even learned that in science class in elementary school...
Right, it never moved. Radars were just prioritized out there first. All the major outbreaks have happened outside "Tornado Alley"
@@slayer18726Yup, Missouri is known for strong violent tornadoes.
4:55 fully shut car windows are actually surprisingly strong. you could easily (with a glove) punch through a window that is open, but your hand will break first if the window is shut.
I can prove that tornadoes can go over rivers and mountains and last a while because it literally happened to me - search the June 1st, 2011 tornado in Massachusetts. It was our freakiest storm ever and one I'll never forget.
I remember watching it on the news. The tornado literally formed right in front of the sky camera. It was pretty surreal.
Can y’all do a part 2??? I could listen to her all day 👏🏼👏🏼
Cyrena is my favorite meteorologist! She's answered many of my (probably dumb) questions but always so informative and you can feel how much she loves to teach/talk about all weather and scientific aspects of it.
I'm a Weather Weenie of hers, you should be too.
Just had some insane storms last night that wrecked power for a ton of people so this is timely
Great example of Tornadoes hitting mounine areas is Albuquerque NM 1985. It was a EF2 and caused 1 death. It his lousisiana and I40 area. Salt Lake city also had a Tornado which was also a EF2 this also caused 1 death and a lot of damage.
This is such a great episode!! One of my favorites of this series overall!! Part 2 please ❤️😊
"Tornadoes can cross water."
Yes, because whoever came up with the myth that tornadoes can't cross water clearly was mixing up a tornado with a vampire.
I've always been a bit of a weather nerd and for the last few years I've been a trained storm spotter. I could listen to her all day.
lol Tomasz Schafernaker wasn’t asking a question. He’s a meteorologist who works for the BBC in the UK sharing his video explaining the answer.
this is relatively common practice for Wired interviews, taking posts that have a question _in them_ even if the original tweet has some answer already in it. it was a worthwhile question for one expert to pose to their audience, and unsurprisingly it is going to be worthwhile for other experts to pose to other audiences.
Please bring her back for another episode. I’m not into weather or storm chasing but this was so informative and entertaining. I loved it!
Water is actually a very poor conductor of electricity. It's the salt particles in the water that serve as the conductor.
So, basically, you don't want to be sitting in the middle of a salt quarry, then?
@@timz9862 The salt needs to be in an aqueous state to conduct electricity (that's where the role of the water comes in), so you don't want to be in the middle of a salt quarry during a rainstorm.
1:45 is my favorite part. a lot of things that seem really easy, or very predictable, is because the experts who spend their entire lives studying certain fields KNOW what to look for or take into consideration what the average person wouldn't even think of or understand
Omg!!!! It’s Cyrena!!!!! I was so happy to see her face on my “recommended videos” after being away on vacation for a week! She’s amazing!
Tornado Alley actually has 3 different areas based upon what month it is. Overall with them: it's basically Texas to the Dakots (north and south) with Nebraska to Indiana (east and west.)
How do I know? The strongest August F5 Tornado in the country happened a week after I was born. The Plainfield Tornado of 28 August 1990 with winds estimated up to 320 mph but usually said between 305 and 310 based on what source you go to. The cloud that spun it went directly over me in Aurora, Illinois.
I will never go by the Enhanced Fujita Scale.
Wow. Every single point is wrong, yikes
@brookiiecookie199 try to break it down then? I bet you didn't live in Aurora, Illinois in August of 1990.
The first thing she said about Tornado Alley shifting east is wrong. Tornadoes have always occurred in that eastern region known as Dixie Alley, which includes northern Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and Tennessee. A warmer climate does not change the amount or severity of tornadoes, since you need both warm and cold air. If anything, climate change would cause tornadoes to happen more often in the great plains/midwest, rather than Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas etc, due to the fact that warm moist air in the gulf could shoot farther north.
Dixie alley is usually active early in the year, so February to April. That's different than the May to June for tornado alley. Because the temperatures in those regions are becoming warmer earlier, we are seeing years with greater tornado potential even in winter. My town was hit by a tornado last December for reference!
Really nice! But also as a reminder, water is does not conduct electricity, you do, water just has a very low level of resistance aka electricity can move through it more freely.
The second question was phrased the exact way I would have asked it. Thank you for your service hero
The window thing: it wasn't about windows breaking. It was about the low pressure, and it the house is sealed tight, then the walls will bulge out and the roof will pop off.
Which is still wrong, because the windows are the weakest part of the structure and would break long before the roof pops off. Not that it matters; houses have enough natural leaks that they can equalize the pressure on their own. If they can't, then the windows will break and equalize it. And if that's not enough, then the pickup truck flying through your wall to land on the couch will make a big enough hole to solve the problem. Don't waste time dinking with windows, just seek shelter.
Today our local meteorologist taught us about positive and negative lightning. We had a few positive lightning strikes last night and those suckers were LOUD
And positive lightning is a lot more violent and dangerous. Watch out
spot on and didn't waste time to answer each question. also very informative and educational!
...now i wanna have ma favorite show stormchasers again :/
There are tons of storm chasers including reed that livestream their chases here on UA-cam. Not the same but still very interesting
A simpler way to answer the question of how we predict weather is that we can track and measure what’s happening over a vast area of land and find patterns that allow us to build models that combine previously observed patterns with current conditions.
That's what she said.
You did great, Cyrena!! Thank you for your incredible education ❤
Curiously, it is the impurities in water that conduct electricity. Pure water is quite resistant. However all water naturally occurring on earth has enough impurities to be dangerously conductive.
I don’t mind that meteorologists can’t predict weather very far ahead. I mind that so many apps and news organizations pretend that they can. I have learned to take the long-range forecast as an expected trend that may change tomorrow. But they never seem to include a disclaimer right up front about the data they offer us.
Literally just got tangentially into tornadoes/chasing within the past week or so and of course this pops up!
My dad told me that when he was a teen, he and his friends would try chasing tornadoes. Apparently that was an Oklahoma past time back in the day lol
I've watched plenty of secondary vortices around main tornadoes. Eventually they become assimilated. I dont believe it makes the main vortex stronger, but they do spawn nearby and merge regularly.
2:18 the rotation of tornados and winds in gemeral is actually caused by the earth's rotation around it's own axis.
Please to know I'm not crazy thinking I can smell and feel a hurricane approaching, it's a very distinct and scary sensation.
Not crazy. You are smelling things in the air and the pressure is changing. Most people can/could smell and feel it, but they just don’t pay attention to the world around them. 🤷♀️
When I was 13 or 14 I came very very close to being hit by lightning. I was about to start a summer job helping out the janitors in the building my dad worked at. This building was at the top of a hill and had a large patio/paved area around it. While the property manager was showing me around outside, we both pause and things just felt quiet and weird. Then my vision gets completely filled with white light that was pinkish at the edges for a fraction of a second and it was gone. The manager and I looked at each other and then just kept on. I didn’t realize until years later what had happened.
Just saw the movie. Really liked it. Started a bit slow, but got better as it went. Some of the things they did, I don’t believe are possible at this time. For example, triangulating a tornado that is constantly moving and changing. The movie (and the previous movie) made it seem like you see tornados every time you chase.
I wish I could have sent in a question. The day this was uploaded, it had been storming outside all day where I live, but eventually the strong storms passed and all that was left was heavy rain, except for a single, extremely loud crack of thunder which startled me. I've heard of super bolts, and I wonder if that was one of them.
Just saw Twisters in the theater. Epic. Definitely did the first film justice. But it’s nice to hear the real science behind the films. 😂 Especially the first film’s ending with horse reigns saving Jo and Bill’s lives. 😂🌪️
It’s was so good. But in the beginning the way he was just ripped off of her…
@@katieAhrens-k7x I almost actually screamed in the theater. In fact I think everyone did. Did NOT see that coming at all… He seemed sturdy there. 😭😭😭
What i really want to know is when the weather forecasters get it wrong ( like this years hurricane season forecast so far) and why, first get them to admit it then teach us.
concerning the belt scene in twister: wouldn't a buckle snap like a twig under that pressure? were their buckles made of tungsten steel?
Tornado Alley is where Tornadoes occur most in the world. Tornadoes can form anywhere in the world with the right climate, however Tornado Alley is one of the only locations in the world with the perfect climate for tornadoes to happen every year/ and conditions to have larger more devastating tornadoes. It’s rare to have an F4 to F5 tornado anywhere else, that’s why Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas are referred to as the Tornado Alley. These states have the most occurring and most disastrous tornadoes annually. With climate shift, bigger tornadoes are beginning to occur more often in more eastern and northern parts of the country like Alabama and up into Illinois.
One thing that confuses me when they talk about lightening being as hot as the surface of the sun, which I have to imagine, is really really hot. Yet, when lightening strikes very near to someone, assuming they don't get electrocuted, it usually does nothing more than scare the crap out of them. I would think that were it as hot as the surface of the sun, that being anywhere within a mile of it, would cause serious burns to the skin, and that just its proximity would cause many things to burst into flames. What am I missing here?
Was "Storm Support" already taken? Like it was right there...
Good timing! just had a derecho run through here last night
this was a really good one and she spoke in such an engaging way! hope to see a sequel!
17:42 uhmm isn't that where the Fujiwara effect comes into play when two storm systems merge?
So many of these questions had indignation and ignorance and it hurt my heart.
Jesus christ I was not ready for that thunder sound effect jump scare
** _Has education in weather, still watched every second of this because I love weather_ **
This lady was inspirational. My favorite of the series so far
13:20 another thing that is definantly unrealistic is the tornado where they are under a bridge and i think they said it was an Ef3 maybe a 2 idk but anyways it literally demolished a barn in a second while for the Ef5 it took a couple second.... erm logic
So the leather belts would break under tension due to the high winds, or would the people lashed into them just be shish-ka-bobbed by the debris? I can understand the debris at least.
I could genuinely listen to this lady all day
she looks like the lead in the original Twister movie LMAO. so perfect
The tornado earrings! Love.
I'm not even that interested in weather and still found this really interesting. Thanks!
I love listening to competent people.
I knew she was the real deal, as soon as I saw the earrings!
Wow. Partly cloudy and partly sunny sounds very counterintuitive to me: partly cloudy = sunny-ish (5/8 clear); partly sunny = cloudy-ish 50%-50%. I would have thought "partly cloudy" was a kind of "cloudy" but it is actually a kind of sunny day... :-(
I had no idea that there was a formula for the weather descriptions. Learn something new… Thank you.
Weather forecast is so difficult and especially tornado prediction! My best weather prediction is a device that measures air pressure i.e barometer. Never fails.
I use AccuWeather... Sometimes wrong. 😂
Excellent video and very informative. Well done! I’ll be on the lookout for her weather coverage!
Wild watching this after Hurricane Helene and Milton lol
LOVED this episode! Bring her back for round 2!