Nature’s combination skills water and fire tornado

High-speed rotating moving water pipes, fire dragons rising from the ground, and heavenly seafood. These have happened more than once. What happened to them?

A “seafood rain” from the sky 

As the saying goes, “No pie in the sky”, but seafood will be dropped. In Honduras, a Central American country, from May to June every year, big “fish” pouring down after strong winds appear in some areas. Countless live fish fall from the sky with the rain. After the rain has passed and the sky clears, the local residents will calmly carry the bucket to pick up the fish and go home to feast on their food. There is even a special “Fish Rain Festival” to celebrate such a feast. 

Such “seafood rain” is not an isolated case. There have been “fish rain” or “shrimp rain” in countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, New Zealand and Australia.

Tornado’s seafood delivery 

“Fish Rain” is not a gift from heaven, but a waterspout. A waterspout is a tornado that appears above the water. There is a myth about the dragon king in China, so the Chinese people also call it “the dragon sucks water.” 

When the waterspout sucks water into the vortex, it sucks up the fish along with it, and rotates while moving. When it moves to land, the wind gradually weakens, and the school of fish will fall down, forming a “fish rain.” 

Where to burn the “fire-breathing dragon”

In 1871, a serious forest fire broke out on both sides of Green Bay Bay in Wisconsin, USA. The flames burned unscrupulously. When people were nervously putting out the fire, a huge “fire dragon” rose from the ground, the wind swept the tongue of the fire, and roared and moved quickly. Many big trees were twisted and even uprooted, and the “fire dragon” was completely transformed wherever it went. For the ashes, a total of about 1,000 people were killed in this disaster. This is also the earliest recorded fire tornado case in the world. 

There have been many fire tornado disasters in the United States, and each of them has been devastating. This terrible “fire-breathing dragon” has also been encountered elsewhere in the world. In August 2010, the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil even dispatched a helicopter to extinguish a “fire dragon” several meters high.

Fire dragon is not a tornado

This “fire dragon” phenomenon is called “fire tornado”, but it is not actually a tornado, but a cyclone similar to a tornado, because its vortex does not always extend from the bottom of the cloud to the ground or water like a tornado. 

Fire tornadoes are generally formed in the event of large fires, such as forest fires. In a fire, the heat of the fire will cause the air to form a swirling air vortex. These air vortices will suck in the burning debris and flammable gas around, and the flame will enter with it, forming a fire tornado.

The appearance of the fire tornado is often accompanied by wildfires and fire storms. Its core temperature can exceed 1000°C, and it is difficult to extinguish. The place where it appears cannot escape the fate of becoming a ruin. Therefore, the fire tornado is also called the “fire devil”.

What is a tornado

A tornado is a cylindrical airflow that rotates violently, usually in weather with thunder clouds. The clouds are strongly disturbed, like an invisible stick stirring frantically, forming an air vortex. The vortex is stirred up more and more, and finally connected to the ground or water surface, and it becomes a tornado. 

A tornado is like a straw protruding from the clouds, which can suck all objects close to it into the vortex.

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