Tornado Talk with Mark Heyka 

Now I have to go back and re-watch the video to notice this, Mark was _so_ natural with it that I didn't notice it the first time. :P

I am glad somebody have noticed it. The whole time I was sitting there thinking to myself "Wow, this guy makes such a great impression, it is surreal.". By the way, the way Hank's Adam's apple goes up and down every 2 or so seconds, makes my think he noticed it as well:)

As a Floridian who is currently sitting through a thunderstorm instead of her daily walk, I speak for all of us when I say you can have them if you'd like

dust devils are caused by the terrain and most notably by buildings, tornadoes are caused by cells of thunder storms and quick changing weather, very different causes but mostly the same effect, at the entrance to my walmart there is an inset part of the building and with strong winds we get dust devils due to the air swirling in the corners of the building, its interesting but by no means a tornado

That reminds me of an xkcd comic: xkcd.com/611/

hehe... We had a hurricane party during Hurricane Bob in Rhode Island. I was outside making home made potato chips dodging limbs. Fun times.

my opinion is hedgehogs :D

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You should read Darkwing by Kenneth Oppel - it's a novel with that exact premise.

You're near Washington, IL? I'm close to a town called Gifford, IL in central Illinois that also experienced tornado damage. About 60 houses were completely demolished in that town. I hope you guys up there have as much support from the community as Gifford does. *hopeful wave* :)

Videos about breaking news take priority over interviews.

Most youtubers release videos days or weeks or months later from the day they made it. I'm sure he had it upload just could not see it too now.

We film a bunch at once and then edit them and upload them every two weeks. That's why you can hear birds in the background even though there are no birds in the episode. Jessi brings animals to match up with all the guests and then film a handful of guests all in one day.

SciShow Wow! Well, I thank you guys for all your hard work and dedication to the show, and to education! :)

+icemetalpunk that is my birthday!

But it doesn't mean that x% of the area will get rain. It really does mean that there is an x% chance that it will rain somewhere within the area.

LawrenceDamon But that isn't what he described in the video. Or maybe he did but poorly. Or maybe he did it so well that it flew over my head yet again. If it is just a straight percentage chance per area then maybe we should just make the areas significantly smaller. I mean, we have massive super computers doing the bulk of these calculations anyway, right? I should just be able to boot up my smartphone, give a GPS location to the service and get a percentage chance for my exact location ±50 meters or so. THAT would be helpful. Cities/Counties are large places y'know? ULTRA personalized weather forecasting! This would be especially useful for people that live in FL like myself where it can literally rain on one side of the street but not another (and often does :P) I suppose that probably happens in other parts of the world too, but I have seen it be especially prominent in FL.

exactly what I thought as well. They should just be clear, and either say "about 40% of the region will get rain" or "there's a 40% chance the region will get rain". Saying it like that would be a lot clearer than "a 40% chance of rain"

***** The grid size in forecasting models are from about 10 km up. That's in Europe I don't know about USA.. Also mean wind speeds are around 20 m/s, so it is impossible to forecast on that small scale :)

0vesty Improbable, yes. Impractical, probably. But Impossible is too strong a word for the technological advancements we enjoy on a daily basis. One day it may totally be possible, we might have a cluster of nano computers following the water cycle around the earth reporting and predicting all the weather patterns down to how big the drops are going to be. :) #SciFiBookIdeas

Not even endangered. I wonder what they taste like.