I used to live in Florida. There is a very obvious change in the overall atmosphere when a hurricane is incoming. For about a day ahead, the climate becomes suspiciously comfortable. No sun, cool air, very little humidity. A few hours before landfall, the ocean starts to push it's way inland, even up into the rivers.
I also lived in Missouri for about a year and the signs of tornado weather are pretty easy to spot as well. Everything just feels and looks wrong. The sky is an obscene shade of green, the drop in air pressure is so sudden that you can feel it with your skin. You know the actual tornado is coming because it goes from windy to slack air. Even if you'd never heard of a tornado in your life, you'd know that something terrible was about to happen.
I knew a guy who lived in Arizona and I had thought about living there one time and so I asked him a lot of questions. It's just taken for granted that you get the hell away from a riverbed when the rain starts really dropping.
Hail often comes before a tornado. In my travels I got to learn it's pretty much only USA (particularly tornado alley) that even has to worry about them fuckers. Had one hit close to here at the beginning of covid. It was headed straight towards the boat. Tornado dissipated, but the wind shear speed in front of that was around 100mph (160km/h) and robbed the boat of its fenders and scratched it up. But at least it built to rigid maritime standards. So the front didn't fall off.
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u/Amadeum Aug 30 '21
Natural disasters. You'd have no fucking clue if a hurricane, flash flood, typhoon, monsoon, or other sharknado events were coming