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2 September 2013
Tornado Strikes Tokyo Suburbs
CBS has more on it here. It was a very warm day in Tokyo with a dewpoint of 25C! It could have been a land-spout, but a look at the upper air maps makes me think that this was most likely a real “Great Plains” like tornado. Plenty of wind shear and instability.
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.