Tornado Chaser Answers Storm Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED

Meteorologist, Author, and Storm Chaser Cyrena Arnold answers your questions about extreme weather from Twitter. How accurate is the science in the new film "Twisters?" What is the difference between El Niño and La Niña? Why are scientists predicting a super-charged storm season for 2024? Answers to these questions and plenty more await—it's Severe Weather Support 🌪️

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0:00 Storm Chaser Support
0:15 Tornado Alley
0:45 How do we predict weather?
2:08 How do tornados form?
2:58 Hailstones
4:05 Saharan Dust in the US?
4:37 Tornados and open windows
5:36 New tornado warning technologies
6:37 Radar patterns and tornado formation
7:44 Violent tornados vs. regular tornados
8:27 El Niño and La Niña
9:14 2024 Hurricane Season
10:39 Storm Chasers: Adrenaline junkies?
12:04 Partly sunny vs. partly cloudy
12:58 How realistic was ‘Twister?’
13:48 How accurate is the science in ‘Twisters?’
15:01 The cause of heatwaves
15:50 The smell of a storm
16:49 How much energy could we generate from a hurricane
17:13 When hurricanes collide
17:46 Popular weather myths
18:38 Thunder!
19:18 Energy in a lightning strike


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[chefdoobles]

"here we are this big rock in space, we've covered 70% of the surface with water. Then we've got this crazy gas around the entire planet. That's our atmosphere. We're spinning it a thousand miles an hour as we're rocketing through the solar system. The sun is roasting one half and the other half is facing the vast void of space and is cooling." is going to start being my reason to get a second slice of cake for dessert

[mattsena]

Wanted to be a meteorologist studying tornadoes and thunderstorms since I was 5. Going to school for it next year (when I'm 25) so this video was an instant click and made my heart skip a beat

[jopo]

I love the way she answers questions with just the right amount of information.
I thought she'd be long winded.

[krystalgroshans]

When i hear the question about opening your windows during a tornado, my response is always "if the tornado wants your windows open, it'll open em for you"

[DNAConsultingDetectives]

I was in southwest part of Wichita with my kids (probably Haysville) April 26th, 1991 when a bunch of tornados where coming through. My kids and I had been in our motel room eating tacos, when my oldest son looked out a high window and said, "That cloud looks like a tornado.". It was! We had only the motel's hallway to take cover in. That initial tornado made significant damage to McConnell AFB. Our building was untouched. After that one passed, all of the motel guests were looking out the door at the end of the hall that opened to the outside. There were a mix of large and skinny tornados (5-7) heading towards our motel. They either passed far north of our location or dissipated. That event was most memorable for the amount of tornadoes we saw that day. I've lived through many a tornado, having lived in south central Kansas for 5 years. Also others in Iowa and Illinois. One was on a 2 day canoe trip where I took shelter in a ditch with my father. The smell is something you'll never forget. And the sound of a freight train. I sure wish we'd had cell phone camera's back on the fateful day.

[djtalksick]

Wired has it down to a science with these videos. 💯💯

[vince.navarrete]

Her rant about "and you want me to tell you what's happening in 5 days?" was just too good.

[vlmellody]

My fourth grade field trip encountered the first recorded tornado on Oah'u. This was in 1968.

[TheRealElmoSkateTeam]

I’m the person that sits on the porch when lighting is happening haha

[amberdent]

10:30 I'm here post-Helene and mid-Milton. Guess they weren't wrong about that, huh.

[prehistoricorchid]

"Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas"
Nebraska: "What am I chopped liver to you?"

Seriously though, we get so many tornados, and I was always told we were part of the valley

[Canelo]

I love that my family's tornado video is still being shared ever where. Washington, Illinois tornado November 2013 filmed till I was pushed down the steps

[Jackkenway]

To the thunder question at 18:38, when lightning strikes it heats the air to about 25 000 degrees Celsius or 45 000 degrees Fahrenheit, which is about 5x the temperature of the surface of the sun, so the air heats up and expands so quickly like she said and you hear that loud noise.
P.S. Wrote this before watching the next part. lol

[gus]

Surprised she didn't mention ozone in answer to "can you smell rain?" That's common, measurable, and well documented! 😎✌️

[malloryutebay]

This was fascinating! I'm a self-proclaimed weather junkie - she explained everything so concisely and with such enthusiasm. Wired always knows where it's at with these experts 💯

[CamD]

6:12 that radar image is the 1999 Moore tornado, my family lost everything because of this tornado...

[iricandescence]

I'm a simple girl, I see Wired Tech Support and I click ❤️

[brycejones]

Just to be clear, I wasn't asking that myths question, I was answering it LOL! I'm also a meteorologist and wrote that blog article to help explain the myths vs facts of weather. Thanks for the mention though that was cool LOL!

[Stephen_Lafferty]

8:27 - I did not expect to see Tomasz Schafernaker, BBC meteorologist extraordinare, namechecked on this episode!

[whisper]

I like that she’s wearing tornado earrings.