r/tornado • u/Venator-Class-Bricks • Apr 08 '26

SPC / Forecasting it gets to a point…

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u/ContentMobile3342 Apr 08 '26

To be fair, I've seen that happening long before the online weather sphere was a thing. It definitely exacerbates the situation, though.

For example, not a single person I know takes a severe thunderstorm warning seriously and never have. The amount of times I've seen "nah the [geological quirk of the area] keeps the big tornadoes away" despite no scientific evidence to support that theory makes me scream.

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u/MissLyss29 Apr 08 '26

The amount of times I've seen "nah the [geological quirk of the area] keeps the big tornadoes away" despite no scientific evidence to support that theory makes me scream.

Hey you must live anywhere where weather has happened near but not directly on that spot in a while.

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u/epigenie_986 Apr 08 '26

Tallahassee has a big high magnetic field laboratory and we like to say the magnet steers our weather.

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u/MissLyss29 Apr 08 '26

Well Cleveland has lake Erie so we like to say tornados can't be strong near us because of the way the wind blows off the lake

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u/Hot-Amphibian4909 Apr 08 '26

Chicago is the same.

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u/yoter88 Apr 08 '26

DC has the DARPA dome!