Like whale watching, there are folks who track down and watch tornados. Have you ever tried it? Probably pretty dangerous, but who knows, maybe not. It would be fascinating!
-- Owen On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Nick Thompson <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear Friammers, > > > > It's almost May, the season in which I provide posts on tornadoes and the > rest of you dopeslap me for my naïve interest in them. A true sign of > spring, this message is. > > > > I offer for your amusement the following: > > > > > http://www.americanwx.com/bb/index.php/topic/43293-tornado-in-michoacan-mexico/ > > > > It contains two videos of an urban tornado in Mexico, the second of which > (marked NASA) is by far the longest, steadiest portrait of a tornado I > have ever seen. There are many mysterious aspects of this storm --- the > high base, the innocent sky, the absence of any lightning, or even any > precipitation in the region all seem strange. I considered that it was a > hoax of some sort, but there is yet a third video of this same storm, taken > from another angle, and in this case, the video takers have to take shelter > from falling stuff. Another feature of this storm that makes it exciting > is that it picks up long strands of agricultural debris (plastic row > covers, perhaps?) which have the effect of visualizing the circulation of > the storm outside the dustcolumn that we normally think of as "the > tornado". One of the thing that makes tornadoes seem so implausible is > that the column itself often seems quite strand-like and delicate. > > > > Please let me know what you think. > > > > N > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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