#solar tornado

[thereyvan]

hey y’all i’ve been a meteorology nerd since i was 8 so i’m gonna talk about the cool meteorlogical shit i like

sundogs!!! this is when the sun looks like it has a smaller sun on each side of it like a little whore(affectionate). these happen when light refracts through ice crystals. the sun has to be on the fuckin horizon for this shit to happen, so this shit only happens at sunrise and sunset 

circumzenithal arcs! these happen when you take a rainbow and turn it ass-over-tits. these little fuckers are also caused by light refracting through ice crystals and they happen really fuckin high up in the sky 

fuckign. solar tornadoes!!! they’re caused by the sun’s hot flowing gas and magnetic fields. these fuckers are really goddamn fast- as in, they can reach speeds upwards of 180-FUCKING-THOUSAND MPH!!! they’re also the size of the gotdamn EARTH 

rogue waves! these fuckers are a singular wave that’s at least twice as tall as the significant wave height(that’s the mean wave height for the area). they can be caused by one wave catching up to another, a wave reconnecting on the other side of an island, and plain old high-ass fuckin wind gusts 

volcanic weather! some volcanoes create such a large cloud that they can cause their own weather! these include tornadoes and even fuckmothering rain 

fire whirls! also called “firenadoes”, these little shits are caused by some of the same fuckery that causes solar tornadoes: hot-as-shit whirling gases. though these bitches also need some wind and a body of water covered in a flammable liquid to get going 

THUNDERSNOW. yes, you read that correctly. thundersnow happens when the ground temperature is unusually warm during a snowstorm. there’s an epic video of well-known meteorologist Jim Cantore going absolutely batshit over experiencing this in Boston 

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[spaceplasma]

Solar Tornado

This enormous tornado erupting from the surface of the sun is big enough to swallow the Earth. In fact, it could swallow five Earths.

Discovered using NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory satellite, this colossal twisting mass is made up of superheated gas at a temperature of between 90,000 and 3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit.

Over the course of three hours, this behemoth reached up from the sun’s surface to a height of 125,000 miles, or roughly half the distance between the Earth and the moon. The hot gases were whipped up to nearly 186,000 miles per hour. In comparison, the wind speed of terrestrial tornadoes generally reaches a paltry 100 miles per hour.

Scientists have previously seen smaller solar tornadoes with other sun-observing satellites but this one — spotted in September 2011 — is thought to be the first one ever filmed. Since then, researchers have seen at least one more solar tornado, an Earth-sized twister.

These tornadoes often precede events known as coronal mass ejections — huge eruptions of charged particles that blast out of the sun’s surface with tremendous energy.  Such flare-ups are thought to be related to interactions among the sun’s magnetic field lines, whose corkscrewing movements also shape the solar tornado.

Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA/Aberystwyth University/Li/Morgan/Leonard

[nationalpost-blog]

NASA chief warns of solar tornado season as storms dance across the sun The weather in space could have a real adverse effect on the Earth, and since it’s tornado season on the sun, we should be on the lookout. That’s what NASA chief Charles Bolden said late last week when addressing members of the Space Weather industry forum. “This conference shines a spotlight on another naturally occurring phenomenon that can be just as punishing as a tornado — space weather,” Space.com reported him saying. (Photo: NASA)

[technologyinventory]

Check out this spectacular video of a solar tornado. 

[honey-ham]

A monster "tornado" big enough to swallow a hundred Earths has been spied on the sun, according to astronomers who analyzed recent images fromNASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

a tornado as big as 100 earths...omg