Friday, May 27, 2011

Tornadoes Suck Up Fire and Water

http://i.imgur.com/vth1J.jpg

Under the right conditions, tornadoes can pick up fires and form temporary fire tornadoes.

Videos of fire tornadoes:


The Discovery Channel explains fire tornadoes:


You can have water tornadoes as well:

Twin water tornadoes:

1 comment:

  1. 99% of our universe is plasma. These vortices are all electrically powered.

    Fire is also a plasma. Water is a superb conductor. These are increasing as the Sun is a magnetically (electromagnetically!) variable star. Ever heard of a river of water plasma from the sun? Check out megamasers!

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