Tornadoes hit Massachusetts on early Thursday, June second. Along with three tornadoes that landed a day before near the outskirt of the state, a massive tornado disappeared with four people dead. Police officers are still on the track of detecting any possible survivors left behind. A thousand National Guard soldiers were sent out as an aid for searching any residents under the broken buildings.
The situation was depicted as a war- torn city by a witness, one of the residents. By the time the tornado came across, a road construction was going on. The scale of damage was more severe than it would have been. “All lights went out and everything turned black and when the air seemed to be clear enough, bricks, blocks, and debris were all over the air” said one of the escapers.
Twelve thousand people are now on the way to sanctuary waiting in the darkness for the return of electricity power that has been cut down due to the natural disaster. But the supply of electricity would unfortunately start by the end of this week at the earliest.
According to Atmospheric Administration, two or three tornadoes happen annually in and around Massachusetts. However, some geophysicists share a different view on tornadoes that happened in a row recently. Scientists investigating previous damages suspect these phenomena of environmental pollution. Nothing has been settled yet, but they do connect the mass destruction to a fruit of contamination made by people.
According to a study that has been carried out by David Lerach of Colorado State University, tornadoes from in different shapes depend on the circumstances. A tornado happened in polluted area had a shade difference with another tornado happened in clearer district. Both appeared with spiral clouds but a long twister did not appear on the state of clear air. Scientists say tornadoes are part of natural occurrence happening on earth. However, the pollution that men created contribute to the formation of tornadoes, the scientist insisted.
Accordingly, particles of dusts in air prevent a cold heavy air from descending as a raindrop. Instead, it transferred them into a group of massive clouds which later end up in forming a tornado. Tornadoes that happen annually appeared frequently this year. But a graph comparing frequencies of tornadoes that took place in 2004 and in 2011 reversed the interpretation. Accordingly, while 1485 tornadoes happened in 2004, in 2011, this year 1817 tornadoes went by.
- http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/tornadoes-pollution-47111202
- http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/02/massachusetts.tornado/index.html
http://www.medindia.net/news/Dust-Pollution-in-the-Atmosphere-may-Trigger-Tornadoes-43846-1.htm
No comments:
Post a Comment