What causes thunderstorms tornadoes and hurricanes?

Answer 1

• God is not causing the earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, droughts, and volcanic eruptions that are so often in today's news. He is not using these to bring punishment on certain peoples. To a large extent, these are caused by natural forces that have been operating since the earth's creation. The Bible foretold great earthquakes and food shortages for our day, but that does not mean that either God or Jesus is responsible for them, any more than a meteorologist is responsible for the weather that he forecasts. Because these are occurring along with all the other things foretold in the composite sign of the conclusion of this system of things, they are part of the evidence that the blessings of God's Kingdom are near. In Luke CH 21 verses 11 and 31 we read:"and there will be great earthquakes, and in one place after another pestilences and food shortages; and there will be fearful sights and from heaven great signs."In this way you also, when you see these things occurring, know that the kingdom of God is near." Humans often bear heavy responsibility for harm done. In what way? Even when given ample warning, many people refuse to get out of the danger area or fail to take needed precautions. Proverbs 22:3 tells us:"Shrewd is the one that has seen the calamity and proceeds to conceal himself, but the inexperienced have passed along and must suffer the penalty.and Matthew 24:37-39 says: "For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be. For as they were in those days before the flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; and they took no note until the flood came and swept them all away, so the presence of the Son of man will be. "The things we see around us are part of a sign that Jesus gave in Matthew Ch 24 that indicate that we are living deep in the time that he called the "last days" of this system of things. Ahead is God's Kingdom that will bring an end to these and other bad conditions.

• Also man himself has caused many of the natural disasters. Man basically has unbalanced every aspect of nature as it was originally meant to be. He over-killed for centuries (for example: depleted the buffalo and now is depleting the oceans of fish, etc.) Man is greedy and has depleted forests to make money off of building homes and resorts and without trees our air isn't purified and there are no longer roots to hold the soil (causing massive mud slides and severe flooding.) Man has played with too many dams for electricity, has not looked after the delicate balance of the Eco system and still refuses to listen to the cries of cleaning up air pollution (which can cause many diseases) and in general leave a bleak existence for our future generations. Each generation is responsible for looking after this planet and we haven't been doing a very good job. Our Western Indians believed that what they took from this earth they replaced. What a good idea! I am ashamed to say that British Columbia, Canada (the U.S. included) is more interested in making the almighty dollar than caring about our depletion of Coho Salmon or spending the money on getting rid of the pine beetle that have killed millions of hectares of trees leaving nothing in it's path. On and on it goes in the name of greed. I would think God would look down on this earth and shed tears!

• As science improves, the domain of gods decreases. God of Abraham causes the rains to kill all of His creation, except his favored Noah and his family. Of course now we know what causes rain.

Answer 2

Thunderstorms develop from unstable warm, moist air. As air rises it expands and cools, but higher altitudes are generally cold anyway. Under normal conditions a parcel of air that is pushed up will become cooler than the surrounding air and sink back down. In this situation the atmosphere is said to be stable. The lift can come from a variety things; a mountain or hill, a weather front, or a sea breeze. In the case of a thunderstorm, the rising air contains moisture, which condenses into clouds and rain as the air cools. The condensation releases heat, which slows the rate of cooling and keeps that air warmer than its surroundings so that it continues to rise. The upper reaches of the storm are cold enough that the moisture forms ice crystals rather than water droplets. The interaction of ice crystals and water droplets generates static electricity in the form of lightning, which in turn produces the sound we hear as thunder. Rain-cooled air creates downdrafts that make the winds of a thunderstorm.

Hurricane formation starts when an area of low pressure with showers and thunderstorms, called a tropical disturbance, moves over warm ocean water. Over the warm water the disturbance has plenty of warm, moist air to fuel its showers and thunderstorms. The low pressure draws in this air and the storms gain strength, causing the pressure to drop even lower and draw in more air. As the pressure drops the wind speed increases and the system gradually becomes more organized. As it becomes better organized it is able to use its fuel supply more efficiently. An effect of the Earth's spin causes the system to start rotating. Once the disturbance develops a well-defined circulation it is deemed a tropical depression. As the depression strengthens further and winds reach 39 miles per hour it is called a tropical storm and is given a name. At this point the storm starts to take on a visible spiral shape. When sustained winds reach 74 miles per hour the storm is declared a hurricane. Around this time, the winds near the center of the storm, where they are strongest, are spinning so fast that they cannot actually reach the center. Instead, air slowly sinks from above the storm, forming a calm area called the eye of the hurricane.

Tornado formation forms when an especially strong thunderstorm, usually associated with a cold front, encounters a condition called wind shear. In wind shear, the speed and direction of the wind changes with different altitudes. If the setup is right, it will have two effects on the storm. First, it will separate the updraft from the rain cooled downdraft part of the storm. This separation prevents the downdraft from choking off the updraft, which would otherwise weaken and eventually end the storm. Second, the wind shear will create within the storm a rotating region of air called a mesocyclone. At this point the storm is now a supercell, the strongest kind of thunderstorm on Earth. Under the right conditions, which still are not well understood, a downdraft may wrap around the mesocyclone, causing it to tighten and intensify to form a tornado.