{"id":1195192,"date":"2023-10-22T07:06:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T11:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1195192"},"modified":"2023-10-22T07:06:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T11:06:58","slug":"the-quest-to-understand-tornadoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1195192","title":{"rendered":"The quest to understand tornadoes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> This stovepipe tornado formed under an intense rotating wall cloud near Keota, Iowa, on March 31, 2023. (credit: Jonah Lange\/Getty <\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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One muggy day in July 1986, a news helicopter was recording footage of a festival in Minneapolis when the pilot and photographer glimpsed a tornado over nearby Brooklyn Park. They moved toward it, filming the powerful twister for 25 minutes, mesmerizing viewers watching it live on TV.<\/p>\n

Watching as the helicopter hovered within maybe a half-mile of the twister was Robin Tanamachi, who was a kid growing up in Minneapolis at the time. \u201cWe were seeing all this really beautiful interior vortex structure,\u201d she says. \u201cI was just absolutely hooked on that, and I know I was not the only one.\u201d Today, Tanamachi is a research meteorologist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and one of many researchers delving into twisters\u2019 mysteries, searching for details about their formation that may bolster future forecasts.<\/p>\n

Tornadoes can be elusive research subjects. Through chasing storms and using computer simulations, scientists have worked out the basic ingredients needed to spin up a twister, but two crucial questions continue to vex them: Why do some thunderstorms form tornadoes while others don\u2019t? And how exactly do tornadoes get their spin?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nSource: Ars Technica – The quest to understand tornadoes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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