An unusual phenomenon: a journalist from Washington filmed a tornado from a tumbleweed on a video
Imagine that you are driving along a highway and fall into a tornado from large balls of tumbleweed plants, writes Tri-city herald.
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Washington-based journalist Matt McKnight captured a video of spinning tumbler balls spinning intensively around him on a section of State Route 204, the same road that closed for 10 hours in January 2020 after the tumbleweed was literally buried in huge numbers cars and even one semi-van underneath.
The authorities aptly nicknamed this event tumblegeddon (a play on the words tumbleweed and Armageddon - ed.). This time it wasn't as bad as it was in January, but the video still went viral after McKnight shared the clip on social media.
It is not entirely clear what caused the unusual tornado this time, but the natural phenomenon that received international news coverage was most likely the result of changing weather conditions. As the publication explains, the unusually snowy winter and wet spring of last year led to a significant increase in tumbleweeds, followed by unusually calm winds in the region.
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On New Year's Eve, the winds rose again and gathered a tumbleweed in heaps from 20 to 30 feet (6-9 meters) high.
According to the Northwest Energy and Resource Conservation Council, the highway cuts a flat plain along the Hanford nuclear reservation, where the US government produced plutonium for the Manhattan project during World War II. In this region, there are often tumbleweeds and strong gusts of wind.
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