#severe weather
Mammatus clouds are formed when cold upper air sinks downward, forming pouches under the cloud layer. They tend to precede severe electrical and hail storms, and are an ominous warning of impending tornadoes.
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Stunning video shows Louisiana tornado pulling large pieces of debris down New Orleans street, flinging objects into the air. http://abcn.ws/2kFxHa2
“Severe weather has strong interactions with the ground, but we haven’t had the capability to study the coupling between the atmosphere and the solid Earth…With this new technology, we can utilize existing fiber-optics networks to clearly see how thunderstorm energy passed through campus.”
Penn State professor, Tieyuan Zhu and a team of researchers turned miles of cables under campus into virtual sensors capable of detecting seismic events caused by thunder echoes. This research can provide information on the Earth’s interior and the impact of other natural hazards.
Read more at Penn State News.
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Its calmed down a bit. There was so much water on the road
aaaand now I’m sitting in my bathtub with one cat bc tornado sirens have been going off. I’m on the 3rd floor of an apartment building and was going to grab the cats and go to my parents’ house 3 minutes away bc basement, but one cat was hiding and I literally could not find her until just now
