Another Saturday, another night spending hours researching tornadoes
TIL intense fires can cause “fire tornadoes”, which are full-on superheated versions of typical tornadoes. There was one in the 2018 California Carr fire (only the second scientifically confirmed fire tornado) that was an EF-3 and a half mile wide. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/californias-carr-fire-spawned-true-fire-tornado/amp">https://www.google.com/amp/s/www...
WTFFFF Idk why we don’t talk about this but the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 in Japan sparked fires in Tokyo that generated an enormous fire tornado that killed nearly 44,000 people who had gathered by the Sumida River for refuge. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-great-japan-earthquake-of-1923-1764539/">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/t...