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Where do tornadoes blow all year round?

The Antarctic is windy all the year round, and the maximum wind speed can reach about 100 meters per second, which is nearly three times higher than the 12 gale of 33 meters per second. Strong winds can easily throw up more than 200 kilograms of oil drums, which can be thrown thousands of meters away. It's easier to flip the plane in the parking lot. Strong winds are extremely common in the coastal areas of Antarctica. For example, Cape Dennison has 340 days of storms a year, so Antarctica has become a veritable "storm kingdom".

The winds in Antarctica vary from place to place. Generally speaking, the wind power is strongest near the coast, with an average wind speed of17-18m/s, and the wind power is strongest from the coast of enderby to the coast of Adelie in the southeast pole, with a wind speed of 40-50m/s ... According to the statistical data of Australian Mawson Station for 20 years, there are 300 windy days of magnitude 8 every year, and the maximum wind speed observed at Mawson Station is/. A hurricane with a wind speed of 100m/s was observed at Deveer station in France, and its wind force was three times that of a typhoon with a magnitude of 12, which was the largest wind speed recorded in the world so far.

Why is it so windy in Antarctica? As we know, Antarctica is a plateau continent covered with ice and snow, surrounded by the sea and controlled by polar high all the year round. The land temperature is much lower than that in Zhou Haiyang, especially in winter, and the difference between land pressure and ocean pressure also increases. The speed of wind speed is closely related to the pressure difference. The greater the pressure difference, the faster the wind speed. When the Antarctic gale reaches the steep slope on the edge of the Antarctic plateau, it falls rapidly with the rapid decline of the terrain, thus forming a unique storm along the coast of the Antarctic continent.