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How to make your own water tornado

How to make your own water tornado is as follows:

1. Prepare materials: The materials required are two plastic bottles, scissors, tape and water. It is best to choose a transparent plastic bottle so that you can observe the movement of the tornado.

2. Make utensils: First cut off the bottom of a plastic bottle, cut off the bottom of another bottle and pour it into the bottle with the bottom removed. Tape the plastic shells of the two bottles together.

3. Make water flow: tilt the bottle and add some water, rotate for a while to make the water form a vortex.

4. Make a tornado: Rotate the plastic bottle and move it with your arms to form a small tornado. You can try different methods, such as rotating the bottle counterclockwise or clockwise, to get different effects.

5. Observation: Observe the patterns and characteristics of tornado movement, and try to discover the patterns.

Characteristics of waterspouts:

1. The diameter is generally slightly smaller than that of landspouts. It is stronger and lasts longer. It often appears in clusters at sea. At the end of July 1971 A satellite cloud image shows seven waterspouts. The moving path of a waterspout is generally a straight line, with an average moving speed of about 50 kilometers per hour; and it is usually vertically downward.

2. Waterspout is a kind of strong convective weather that occurs on the sea surface or rivers and lakes. It often occurs during thunderstorms in summer. The scope of a waterspout is usually relatively small, with strong winds in the center; it usually lasts from a few minutes to half an hour. Generally no more than 1 hour.

A tornado is a violent local weather phenomenon with a very short life history. There is currently no sign at home or abroad that a more accurate forecast of its occurrence can be made. The United States is the country with the most tornadoes in the world.

A waterspout is a tornado that occasionally appears over warm water. It's essentially a vortex, with air spinning rapidly around the axis of the tornado. Attracted by the extremely reduced air pressure in the center of the tornado, the water flow is sucked into the bottom of the vortex, and then turns into an upward vortex around the axis. If a top-spin landspout moves toward the sea, a waterspout will also form as it travels.