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xkcd #3267: Types of Tornado Alert (thelemmy.club)
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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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[–] 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month 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.

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    • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Tornado Premonition is a wicked band name

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    [–] 3 points 1 month ago

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

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    [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    What in tornado telepathation?!

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    [–] 3 points 1 month ago

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

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