The rain was pouring down in torrents — it was visible as dark curtains descending from the clouds. The raindrops out my windshield were blowing in the wind, traveling left to r ...

A supercell is a thunderstorm with a rotating updraft, which is classified as a mesocyclone. The rotating updraft is what sets a supercell apart from a typical thunderstorm. In order for a ...

A spinning vortex of air called a mesocyclone lies at the heart of a supercell. When the mesocyclone interacts with strong updrafts, the storms can churn out tornadoes and produce destructive ...

The shots are all very cool, but I can’t argue with the No. 1 pick: a mesocyclone over Colorado, taken by photographer Marko Korosec: I expect to see Thor riding down the middle of that thing.

What, a gorgeously shot series of mesocyclones and other storms recorded forming in a time-lapse video? Yeah, you know I want to show you that. Hypotheses abound, including light bouncing off hail ...

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He called the circulations "tornado cyclones." Today the "tornado cyclone" of Brooks is called a mesocyclone. The same day the first hook echo was observed by the radar in Campaign-Urbana ...

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But today we're talking about mesocyclones. What exactly is a mesocyclone? TA: A mesocyclone is not a traditional cyclone. So the traditional cyclone is a large scale circulation of winds around a ...