• Question: How hot does it have to be for a tornado to occur?

    Asked by chlostyles11 to Ben, Dave, Ed, Sam, Susana on 24 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: David Briggs

      David Briggs answered on 24 Jun 2013:

      It’s not the temperature that matters for tornadoes – rather the local weather and rain conditions – Really big Tornadoes (like those in America) form in storm cells that form when two weather systems colide – one warm moist air collides with cold dry air forming “supercells” that produce tornadoes.

    • Photo: Susana Teixeira

      Susana Teixeira answered on 25 Jun 2013:

      Don’t know much about tornados to be honest. They need warm moist air below (usually above 20 degrees celsius but not necessarily) and colder dry air higher up in the atmosphere, as well as something like the wind to mix them and eventually cause the spinning movement.

    • Photo: Sam Horrell

      Sam Horrell answered on 26 Jun 2013:

      There are tornados on the sun, as I found out from another person asking questions! Not exactly relavant to this question but David has already answerd it so…

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