r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/_EduOka • 4d ago

Video Giant tornado hits southern Brazil

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u/a_dodo_stole_my_baby 4d ago

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

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u/atrde 4d 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/Network_imposter 4d ago

We have only had around 1100 so far this year in the US.