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xkcd #3267: Types of Tornado Alert

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I hate the unearthly sound my phone makes when the weather service issues a tornado harbinger.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3267/

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[–] X@piefed.world 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Schrödinger's Tornado: at any given location on earth there both is and is not a tornado

[–] hayvan@piefed.world 5 points 1 week ago

Heisenberg's Tornado Principle: you can know tornado's position and velocity within error margins. i.e. you can know a tornado's location, but when you go to check it out it's somewhere else.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Tornado Premonition is a wicked band name

[–] farmgineer@nord.pub 3 points 1 week ago

What in tornado telepathation?!

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Oh shit I think I'm under a SEVERE tornado inkling.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

There’s also an anti-warning. According to this sales pitch, I should book this vacation if I want to see tornados.