What is a tornado?
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The tornado is one of the most dangerous weatherphenomena. Fortunately, it appears rarely enough, so many know what a tornado is, but few have seen it. A tornado is a whirlwind of air that is formed from clouds and stretches down. Outwardly, the tornado looks like a funnel, which with increasing intensity is expanding more and more. This dark pillar can reach a few tens of meters in diameter. At the bottom the column also turns into a funnel, and it consists of dust, water, objects, which are picked up by this terrible phenomenon.
The tornado, what is it dangerous?
If you do not understand the danger of a tornado, thenit is enough only to imagine that the speed of air movement inside the funnel reaches 300 kilometers per hour. A tornado can cause truly terrible destruction all the way. What is striking, just a few meters from the tornado lane, complete silence is observed. For example, in one city a tornado can destroy everything in its path, and in a suburb of this city a dark pillar will not even be visible. The tornado is especially dangerous because no one can for sure predict where and when this deadly funnel will appear. There were cases when a tornado destroyed and raised concrete bridges, cars and whole houses.
How to distinguish between a tornado and a tornado?
If you studied well at school, you should know,than a whirlwind differs from a tornado. A tornado appears only above the land, that is, it is formed from dust and ground objects. As for the tornado, it appears above the water. Especially often the coast of the United States suffers from such climatic catastrophes. Fortunately, in our latitude very rarely you can become a witness of such a phenomenon, but you can see what a video tornado is, the Internet is almost everyone now.
Such a number of tornadoes and tornadoes throughout theterritory of the globe is explained by a large amount of energy, which under certain conditions can accumulate in low atmospheric layers. Especially often this happens in hot weather.
Any tornado or tornado is always destruction anda tragedy for many people. With each occurrence of such a climatic cataclysm people suffer, as a tornado raises their houses and cars from the ground. There were cases when people even got into the funnel. The well-known prophetess Vanga said that as a child she fell into the funnel of a steppe whirlwind.
Many people do not understand the danger thattornadoes and tornadoes, consider it all just a beautiful phenomenon. Indeed, it is very beautiful, but only from the outside. Approaching such phenomena is strictly not advisable, since no one can predict which way the funnel will move in the next moment. Therefore, it is better to watch the video at home and rejoice that the tornado has not yet visited your house.
