By Tom Yulsman
of Discover Magazine
The image
is amazing. It comes from a computer scientist and aspiring meteorologist named
Jeff Adkins who helped me with my first post of the day. That one was about the phenomenon of
haboobs, or massive sandstorms, in the desert Southwest. Jeff helped out by
supplying a spectacular visual much like the one above.
So I
now follow him on Twitter, where he posted this image. It’s so dramatic
that I just couldn’t resist sharing it with you.
You’re
looking at a simulated 3-D view of a massive thunderstorm from which a tornado
is touching down to the east of the town of Glasgow in eastern Montana. The
image is based on NEXRAD radar data.
What
follows is the real picture of the same Montana tornado. Credit for this picture goes to Sarah Dillingham from her post.
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