{"id":27680,"date":"2024-07-20T19:48:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T23:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=27680"},"modified":"2024-07-20T19:58:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T23:58:39","slug":"twisters-explained-by-a-meteorologist-terms-science-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2024\/07\/twisters-explained-by-a-meteorologist-terms-science-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Twisters\u2019 Explained By A Meteorologist: Terms, Science And More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Those of you who like exciting movies may be planning to see the movie &#8220;Twisters&#8221;, which is somewhat an extension of the movie &#8220;Twister&#8221; from quite a few years ago about storm chasers competing to get the best tornado footage. Here is a discussion about the science in the movie from Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA. I have not seen it yet and don&#8217;t have high hopes for the science but I hear it is an exciting movie, if somewhat unrealistic (not a big surprise). Visit the review from <em>Forbes<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marshallshepherd\/2024\/07\/19\/twisters-explained-by-a-meteorologist-terms-science-and-more\/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2snLAT6zO7u0hedZ2Xw5-sm5ow8SQ7scl2rOr3x6lcfGRs4L3wpY6I9yE_aem_jl4jGz5RWjMz89UjOOGx3w\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/vortex2-radar-truck-and-tornado-nssl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"380\" height=\"284\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/vortex2-radar-truck-and-tornado-nssl.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/vortex2-radar-truck-and-tornado-nssl.jpg 380w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/vortex2-radar-truck-and-tornado-nssl-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/vortex2-radar-truck-and-tornado-nssl-185x138.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: National Severe Storms Lab, NOAA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who like exciting movies may be planning to see the movie &#8220;Twisters&#8221;, which is somewhat an extension of the movie &#8220;Twister&#8221; from quite a few years ago about storm chasers competing to get the best tornado footage. Here is a discussion about the science in the movie from Dr. Marshall Shepherd of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27691,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27680\/revisions\/27691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}