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Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=160zc_F8-ns A climate warmed world would be like the planet as it existed 40 million years ago. Individual storms from that period left traces strong enough to be read even today.Above and below, clues as to what the Storm World of the future might be like. https://youtu.be/T5RkjYjyVC8?si=Qibph0IIvOXOhiV9
Wind that, sure, pack a punch, but that pack a very, very, very narrowly targeted punch. we think of tornadoes as the pinpoint strike of the storm world. but that tornado in moore, oklahoma, was huge. it was 1.3 miles wide on the ground. it was not a pinpoint strike. it was as wide as 23 football fields laid end to end, while it was on the ground. tornado-force winds more than a mile across. that was moore, oklahoma, may 20th. and then less than two weeks later, that storm in moore was dwarfed by an even bigger tornado, which hit el reno, oklahoma. el reno wasn't 1.3 miles across, like moore w...
The storm was on the ground for approximately 40 minutes. it traveled along a 17-mile path of densely populated oklahoma in the suburbs of oklahoma city. but beyond the metrics of its power and its duration and its course, what was really unusual about the moore tornado, almost shocking at the time, even in oklahoma, where tornadoes happen a lot, what was most amazing about that storm and unusual about it was how wide it was. we think of tornadoes as twisters, right? as narrow columns of swirling wind that, sure, pack a punch, but that pack a very, very, very narrowly targeted punch. we think ...