Tornadoes

Cool dry air is usually associated with high pressure systems. High pressure systems bring clear skies and calm weather, leading to cooler and drier conditions.

yes tornadoes and dust devils are common in Africa

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The Introduction of SGI-USA's Liturgy book explains it well, "Birds have their own language, their own speech. People don't understand it but other birds do. There are many examples among humans as well -- codes, jargon, or foreign languages are well understood by experts or native speakers but unintelligible to others. Similarly the language of the sutura is the language of the Buddhas and bodhisattvas. Whether we understand them or not, the words we chant evoke a powerful response from the universal Law, which is depicted on the Gohonzon."

It could take months and even years

Yes tornados occur regularly in the UK. The difference is that fortunately they are weak. There is supposed to be more tornados in the UK than in the USA they just are not on anything like the same scale. I have not seen any tornados myself but I have seen the beginnings of a tornado in a funnel cloud - a sharp triangular cloud pointing to the ground. If these touch the ground then you have a tornado.

Not under the circumstance depicted because there will be flying debris in the tornado moving at high speeds.

However, if you take adequate shelter, underground if possible, you can survive especially considering that only a fairly small portion of an F5 tornado actually produce F5-force winds.

Texas is bigger and better.

It is possible, though the tornado itself would not be the cause.

Tornadoes are often accompanied by very heavy rain which can cause flooding.

A flood can alter the course of a river.

As the term "central eye" suggests the storm surround the eye rather than occurring to any particular side. In the northern hemisphere, where all hurricanes and most tornadoes rotate counterclockwise, the worst winds will occur on the right side of the eye. In the southern hemisphere, where the storms rotate clockwise, the worst winds will be on the left side.

== == "Turning Over" refers to the phenomena when the warm surface water (which is Oxygen Poor) is driven downward (usually by a cold hard rain after a long drought) and the colder oxygen rich waters are forced closer to the surface. Fish instinctually move to lower water depths to find more oxygen, and when the water has turned over, they find oxygen poor waters and can die of asphyxiation. Turnover does in fact refer to a mixing of warm surface waters and cold bottom waters, but actually, it is the surface waters that are oxygen rich, and bottom waters which are oxygen poor. In a lake, for example over the course of a long summer, sunlight will penetrate the surface waters, resulting in natural production of algae (phytoplankton). The phytoplankton are responsible for most of the oxygen in a lake. But as the algae becomes more productive, it shades out the lake, preventing sunlight from penetrating deeply. From the surface of the water down to the point where only the tiniest bit of light remains is called the photic zone. It is ONLY in this zone that photosynthesis can occur, and therefore oxygen production. In the bottom waters, where there is no sunlight, there is no photosynthesis and therefore no oxygen production.

Furthermore, the sunlight is the only natural source of heat. So the photic zone becomes warmer as the summer goes on, while the bottom waters, which are not sunlit, stay cool. Warmer water is less dense than cold water and so the warm water floats on top of the cold water. This is called thermal stratification. So when there is a cold hard rain at the end of a long summer, the cold rain falls into the surface waters, cooling it down. When surface waters get close enough to the temperature of bottom waters, the water column will become mixed, resulting in turnover. So the short answer to your question is, turnover is NOT related to fishing. LOL.

Away from doors, windows, and any objects that could be thrown towards you to cause injury.

Depends on which way the tornado is coming from, what's on the floor above you (heavy stuff?) and the structure itself (wood joists or metal?). Safest would be a smaller room within the basement that has structural walls (such as a bathroom).

That's a key thing to remember -- keep conscious of what's on the floors above you. You don't want a piano falling through the floor. Get as many interior walls in as you can, as low as you can go. Get under a bench, under a sturdy piece of furniture - cover yourself with a blanket or mattress to protect yourself from flying projectiles.

Grab a bottle of water, in case you're stuck for a few hours and need to be dug out.

it lasted like 3 minutes

Yes, tornadoes can occur in Broward County, Florida, although they are relatively rare. The region is more prone to severe thunderstorms and tropical storms, which can sometimes produce tornadoes. When they do occur, they are usually weak and short-lived. However, the potential for tornadoes increases during severe weather events, especially in the spring and summer months.

As of May 29, 2012 no.

Yes it is. Tornadoes are small compared with other storms, form quickly, and are difficult to predict. This makes it hard to be in the right place at the right time to study them, especially if you have to deal with delicate scientific instruments.

The place with the most tornado sirens would have to be tornado alley

Some are electronic, and some old ones use a blower motor to blow air into the chopper. The chopper kind of chops the air. It is then blown out a horn

something wooden or stony that covers you completely

They don't. If it is properly sealed they would not get in. Perhaps it came in with you.

One is not necessarily worse than the others. Each tornado, earthquake, volcanic eruption, and hurricane must be assessed individually. For all of these phenomena the magnitude of the effects can range from almost nothing to catastrophic. For example you can have an earthquake that does no more than knock a few pictures off of walls and a tornado that levels a whole town. Conversely, you can have an earthquake that devastates a whole region, killing thousands and a tornado that does no more than peel a few shingles.

However, if we look at just the worst few cases of each type of event, earthquakes appear to come out on top. There have been more earthquakes in recorded history with death tolls in the tens to hundreds of thousands than there have been of the others, especially if you include deaths from the tsunamis that some earthquakes generate.

How often tornadoes occur in different regions is a function of climate. Tornadoes are weather events and climate is the long-term behavior of the weather. In simple terms, tornadoes occur in areas whose climates support the formation of strong thunderstorms and wind shear.

Pretty high actually. Michigan averages a little less than 20 each year and has seen tornadoes as strong as F5.