Avi Blizovsky
Trees uprooted in the Western Galilee following the tornado courtesy of Ether The weather in Israel, by Boaz Dayan
"Storms like the one that hit Israel happen from time to time and this is not uncommon. It can certainly happen again in a few years and there is no way to predict their exact location because they are only local," said Prof. Haim Kotiel from the Department of Geography at the University of Haifa, referring to the damages the last of the weather. According to him, these are storms that last a very short time. "The extreme part of the storm in the Western Galilee that occurred at the beginning of April 2006, for example, lasted only about ten minutes. In an agricultural area, such a storm will cause damage to trees and vegetation instead of people, and the scope of the damage will be smaller. At the same time, there is definitely a trend towards extremism and extreme phenomena in the weather and this storm It was definitely more extreme than previous storms in the current period."
However, Prof. Kothiel pointed out that the months of April and May were always fickle: on the one hand, it is almost summer, and on the other hand, in certain months of April, we are in the middle of winter. The differences between the seasons are more extreme. "The attempt to rank the intensity of the storm according to the intensity of the damage is incorrect. If the storm that occurred this week, had moved 2-3 km north or south to a less populated area, the damages would have been much smaller and correspondingly less publicized. In our time, development and construction add to destruction and destruction," he said.
According to him, it is likely that less damage would have been recorded in less populated areas, and to the same extent that today it is called a 'mini tornado', in another era it would be called by a different name. "'If we take Hurricane Katrina in the USA, for example, even though it was highly publicized, there have been storms much stronger than it. Most of the casualties were caused there mainly due to the inability of the state authorities to respond properly."
Prof. Kothiel rejected any possible connection between the solar eclipse or earthquakes in the world and the storm. "There is no connection between the solar eclipse a week earlier and the volatile weather. The only effect on the weather is in a very short period of time, when there is a very large decrease in radiation and then the temperature drops, such a development will generate a maximum of a weak breeze, but no more than that and an hour later, like It happened, the weather is wonderful again and the earthquakes have nothing to do with the storm, on this subject it is usually myths and beliefs, but there are no studies showing a connection between the two and no explanations. physical in this regard," he noted.
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