Little tornado
Bane of the trailer park
Lifting houses to leave your mark
'Little Tornado' by Aimee Mann from the album "@#%& Smilers"
The state of Alabama lies in an area known as 'tornado alley'.
The state was one of five hit by over 100 tornadoes in the last day.
It is now thought that well over 200 people were killed
A remarkable event...
The BBC News website had a range of articles including this one from earlier today, which outlines the problem, and begins to explain why the weather conditions at the time made the atmosphere so unstable. See the later Big Picture link for more useful diagrams in this area.
They showed how the original death toll started to rise as more damage became apparent.
One issue with the tornados was the frequency. This NOAA website has useful imagery which dramatically shows how rapidly the storms formed at the interface between the warmer and colder air masses.
As with most events, the access to the local newspapers and media is a better way to fully appreciate the local impacts and ensure that the information that might be being used with students is accurate and appropriate. The Tuscaloosa News had a series of reports and images following the event.
I hope that those people I follow on Twitter who live in or close to the affected areas stay safe.
Students could also be directed to the TORRO site, which monitors and studies tornadoes here in the UK, where they are relatively common for a country the size of the UK.
Updates: since the original post, a range of other media and information....
Check the Boston BIG PICTURE website for a remarkable set of images, such as Image 9....
Follow accounts such as @weatherzine and @ExtremeStorms for more on Tornadoes and their impacts - these form part of some exam specifications.
Image from NOAA
And a video by Jim Edds on VIMEO (sorry, I can't embed it here) - an amazing interview...
Bane of the trailer park
Lifting houses to leave your mark
'Little Tornado' by Aimee Mann from the album "@#%& Smilers"
The state of Alabama lies in an area known as 'tornado alley'.
The state was one of five hit by over 100 tornadoes in the last day.
It is now thought that well over 200 people were killed
A remarkable event...
The BBC News website had a range of articles including this one from earlier today, which outlines the problem, and begins to explain why the weather conditions at the time made the atmosphere so unstable. See the later Big Picture link for more useful diagrams in this area.
They showed how the original death toll started to rise as more damage became apparent.
One issue with the tornados was the frequency. This NOAA website has useful imagery which dramatically shows how rapidly the storms formed at the interface between the warmer and colder air masses.
As with most events, the access to the local newspapers and media is a better way to fully appreciate the local impacts and ensure that the information that might be being used with students is accurate and appropriate. The Tuscaloosa News had a series of reports and images following the event.
I hope that those people I follow on Twitter who live in or close to the affected areas stay safe.
Students could also be directed to the TORRO site, which monitors and studies tornadoes here in the UK, where they are relatively common for a country the size of the UK.
Updates: since the original post, a range of other media and information....
Check the Boston BIG PICTURE website for a remarkable set of images, such as Image 9....
Follow accounts such as @weatherzine and @ExtremeStorms for more on Tornadoes and their impacts - these form part of some exam specifications.
Image from NOAA
And a video by Jim Edds on VIMEO (sorry, I can't embed it here) - an amazing interview...
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