https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-the-2025-tornado-season-has-been-so-destructive/
~900 tornadoes have torn through more than 30 states so far this year, killing dozens…and costing billions.

#SupercellFormation requires…conditions that make the atmosphere unstable, and these start with warm, moist air at the surface and cold, dry air above. The instability comes from warmer air’s greater buoyancy, which makes it rise upward. And this mix needs yet another specific ingredient, #windshear “where winds change speed and direction as you go up with height…”

Why the 2025 Tornado Season Has Been So Destructive

Several devastating tornado outbreaks have cut swaths of destruction across the U.S. What’s driving these damaging storms?

Scientific American