Knowing that tornadoes, hurricanes, and twisters in general are made of rising hot air and falling cold air...

Question

Yes!I know rising hot air and falling cold air is an over simplification. But going on that definition alone, if the air is going up, would'nt that mean that then we could track potential areas that could develop a twister? Cuase if the hot air going up then doesnt that mean the earth is getting rid of the heat into space? Kind of like what the sweat glands do for the body?Couldnt we take measurements of the surface earth tempatures or surface water temp for areas getting too hot, and then possibly do something about it before it turns into a tornadoe, hurricane, or twister?
That's just my idea about it given global warming. Or am missing something that ya'll know and I dont?

Answer 1

I see your point, but you said it yourself - it's an over-simplification. Yes, we can track convective areas (areas where hot air is rising); that's something forecasters do constantly. But there is convection in soooo many places. The search for potential twister areas has to be much more narrow.

Answer 2

They do this already, they often will put weather watches and give a chance of thunderstorms to areas where a cold front might be coming through a warm and moist air mass which would lead to warm and moist air at the surface and cold are aloft. If there is lift source then the hot air will go into the cold air and when the warm air goes up it is cooled and the moisture in it condenses forming clouds that can produce thunderstorms, I don't see at what point the heat would go into space, it doesn't make much sense to me.

Answer 3

I was just thinking about this today. (At least the bit about predicting tornadoes and preventing them).

In my mind, tornadoes are caused when an upper layer of cool, dry air is "trapped" by a lower layer of warm, humid air. The cool air behaves like water in a bathtub, and when it breaks a hole in the warm air "bathtub", it swirls down just like water would. Only, warm air also swirls up to complement and strenghten the tornado.

So, if it were possible to break many holes or a huge hole in the "bathtub" of air, the tornadoes would be weakened or have their lives shortened.

Maybe in the future, very large aircraft could do this.

*shrugs*

Answer 4

Hot air does not upward push on account that it's scorching, nor does bloodless air sink on account that it's bloodless. Denser air sinks, much less dense air rises. If you cross up within the troposphere you'll see that chillier air is overlying hotter air with the warmest air at the flooring and the coldest on the tropopause. If the upward thrust and fall of air was once as a result of temperature, you might no longer uncover that concern. Although the air bigger within the troposphere is chillier than the air under it, it's much less dense on account that it has fewer molecules in line with unit quantity. The densest air is on the flooring. If you hot the air virtually the bottom in order that it turns into much less dense than the air above it, it is going to upward push but it surely does so on account that of density no longer temperature.

Answer 5

You are missing something. It is true that tornadoes and Hurricanes are made with raising hot air. But you got to take into account the spin of the earth and the jetstream.

Answer 6

preventing a tornado is tough.
but when one occurs, let a hydrogen bomb explode in mid air, eg: remote controlled airplane. that should generate enough heat to "blow a hole" in the layers of air. hehe. my two cents. =P