The impossible is possible. A rainbow and a tornado. This scene could be considered serene, if it didnt contain a tornado. Last June in Kanzas Erick Nguyen, a typhoon hunter, took a picture of this promising whirlwind in unexampled light – the light of rainbow. At the given picture the white cone of tornado is falling down from dark stormy clouds. The sun, which appeared through a bright part of the sky on the left, illuminates the buildings in the background. Sunbeams are reflected from raindrops and give rise to a rainbow. At random the end of the tornado whirlwind turned out to be on the right elbow of the rainbow. The stripes, noticeable in the picture, are hailstones, carried away around the whirlwind by powerful winds. Moe than 1000 tornados – the most violent of known types of storms, pass over the Earth every year. Many of them pass along “the Tornado Alley”. If you drive a car and notice a tornado, dont try to runaway from it – park your car in a reliable place and head to a anti-storm cellar or hide yourself in a basement of some building. Authors: (Eric Nguyen, Oklahoma University). |