If you stir the water with a spoon near the surface of the water, at first no whirlpool appears. To illustrate the issue, think of a similar vortex, like a whirlpool in a bucket of water. What they don’t tell the grade-schooler’s is that the physics doesn’t work. The theory approved by consensus science for grade school education, is that the column is created by shearing horizontal winds, one over the other, that create a horizontal rotating mass that gets lifted and stretched by updraft winds into a vertical vortex. Either shear can produce rotation, but only in the horizontal plane. It’s no reach to understand how shear winds generate rotation, but the shearing in thunderstorms tends to be drafts traveling up and down, and cross winds at different elevations. Tornadoes are believed by consensus science to be a purely thermodynamic event, caused by convection of moist, warm air into cold jet streams above, and the shear winds and condensation that results. There are a few, but the primary one is how this coherent mass of rotating air gets vertical and ‘descends’ itself to the ground. Scientists and weather nerds chase them all over the Midwest every spring they can’t hide. All are then part of the coherent, rotating structure.īut is it really just air, spinning like a top – or is there something too organized about the mayhem – something we still don’t know? The Mystery… It’s nothing but air, at least until it picks you up, along with tons of dirt, cars, buildings and cows. It’s size and power seems to materialize from thin air. Most terrifying of all, it will chase you down, suck you off the ground and spit you back naked, muddy and dead. Winds in rotation, tight as a knot, with a body and energy that give it life, coherency, and a dislike for trailer parks.
Or else, an obsession to hide every time the wind howls.Ī tornado is nature’s demon. An obsession to watch, film, chase, drive beneath – a need to understand.
Either way, they will be awed and it will haunt them forever.įor many, it becomes an obsession.
They may recall awe and beauty, or awe and terror, depending on their vantage point. People who witness a tornado never forget.
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