Uploaded November 2018 | Updated September 2026, 18 hours ago
FORMER COLD OPEN: I don't want to trivialize the trauma and damage caused by tornadoes. This is a climatology video!
The fact that the United States gets so many more tornadoes than the rest of the world is thanks to a couple quirks of geography and climatology. Normally, the areas between ~25 degrees and 35 degrees north and south latitude are home to the world's harshest deserts, but there are exceptions. Where we find these exceptions is also where we are most likely to experience severe weather. So does that mean severe weather or desert are our two options in these parts of the world? Pretty much!
Rich Thompson's Tornado Forecasting Workshop at Oklahoma University in Norman, OK
youtube.com/watch?v=7ylyYh1AZ8k
FORMER COLD OPEN: I don't want to trivialize the trauma and damage caused by tornadoes. This is a climatology video!
The fact that the United States gets so many more tornadoes than the rest of the world is thanks to a couple quirks of geography and climatology. Normally, the areas between ~25 degrees and 35 degrees north and south latitude are home to the world's harshest deserts, but there are exceptions. Where we find these exceptions is also where we are most likely to experience severe weather. So does that mean severe weather or desert are our two options in these parts of the world? Pretty much!
Rich Thompson's Tornado Forecasting Workshop at Oklahoma University in Norman, OK
youtube.com/watch?v=7ylyYh1AZ8k
![Lightning that CRAWLS: Anvil Crawlers. SOT:[SHORTS] Slow Motion high altitude lightning displays](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XFRq2cP0eqY/mqdefault.jpg "Lightning that CRAWLS: Anvil Crawlers. SOT:[SHORTS] Slow Motion high altitude lightning displays
Shot with a Sony RX10 IV, at 240 fps, Canon 6D and even some with a Logitech 920c Webcam. Locations Featured: Chamberlain, South Dakota August 2019, Aurora, Nebraska June 2018. Tuscon Arizona and others.
Anvil Crawlers are a type of lightning that crawls the sky in the, you guessed it anvil of the thunderstorm. This is an area where upper level winds have sheered off the top of the Cumulo Nimbus cloud. They are full of tiny ice crystals moving at different speeds, creating static charge. The anvil of a storm covers hundreds of square MILES and is usually around 40 to 50 THOUSAND feet above ground. When this static builds up, it is released over a massive area of the sky, filling even the widest angle lenses with incredible lightning displays for your camera to enjoy. Even better at high speed!
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