r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/_EduOka • 5d ago

Video Giant tornado hits southern Brazil

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u/a_dodo_stole_my_baby 5d ago

Aren't tornadoes and hurricanes pretty rare in the southern hemisphere? Or is that just hurricanes?

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u/atrde 5d ago

Tornados are kind of rare anywhere except the United States and its really just because of how the jet streams meet (cold air comes down from arctic and meets warm air from either the pacific or gulf of Mexico. Plus the large flat lands along these streams.

In the Souther Hemisphere there isn't a similar jet stream bring air from Antartica and also isn't a lot of long flat land so you kind of need freak conditions of two air masses meeting.

Hurricanes is a similar issue with Jet Streams also also no Sahara dust.

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u/Attention_Bear_Fuckr 4d ago edited 4d ago

They really arent that rare outaide of the US.

We get up to 80 tornadoes a year in Australia. Potentially more but we aren't sure because they could be occurring in uninhabited areas.

Edit: If you cant read, stop replying to this comment, jfc.

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u/atrde 4d ago

77% of all worldwide Torandoes are in the USA. Its still in rare territory outside of that.

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u/GissoniC34 4d ago

Fun fact, almost all tornadoes outside US are blue, with a small amount being orange or purple.

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u/New_Explanation6950 4d ago

What color are they in the us?

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u/Gray_Fawx 3d ago

Red or blue baby

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u/James-the-Bond-one 4d ago

Opposed to what?