https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/11/17/dare-i-say-it-there-could-be-a-tropical-storm-forming-in-the-atlantic/ Mon, 18 Nov 2013 02:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/11/17/dare-i-say-it-there-could-be-a-tropical-storm-forming-in-the-atlantic/#comment-489947 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 02:43:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=18127#comment-489947 Did that tornado menace Har Mar shopping mall?

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/11/17/dare-i-say-it-there-could-be-a-tropical-storm-forming-in-the-atlantic/#comment-489946 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 01:51:03 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=18127#comment-489946 “Tornadoes, which are not that common (have you ever actually been in one? Probably not) ” Well, yes. June 14, 1981 — the tornado that started in Edina, crossed Lake Harriet in Minneapolis, and ended up in the Northeast suburbs of the Twin Cities. Plenty scary, but just for a couple minutes, as the famous rumble approached, a tree went down on our porch, and then (several minutes later) the sirens went off. It must be so much worse to experience a storm that blasts away with tornado force winds for hours and hours.

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