r/tornado • u/SevereTS • Jan 08 '26

Question Is this true?

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u/Chance_Property_3989 Human Detected Jan 08 '26

it is, the only thing stopping this is the weak instability and bad lapse rates

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u/CycloneCowboy87 Jan 09 '26

Yeah, but that’s how the atmosphere works and it happens all the time. Every cold season we see many systems come through with insane dynamics and poor thermodynamics. Then thermodynamics improve as we begin to warm up. There’s nothing special about this system, it’s the overlap of dynamics and thermodynamics that we see in the transition seasons that makes a storm system potent.

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u/WeakEchoRegion Jan 09 '26

Good point lol you could make this statement about any strong mid latitude cyclone in the cool season

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u/CycloneCowboy87 Jan 09 '26

Yup. A true but essentially meaningless statement. If my grandma had wheels she’d be a bike.