{"id":200802,"date":"2024-12-05T00:23:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T06:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/a-man-scouring-google-earth-found-a-mysterious-scar-in-the-australian-outback-and-now-scientists-know-what-caused-it"},"modified":"2024-12-05T00:23:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T06:23:46","slug":"a-man-scouring-google-earth-found-a-mysterious-scar-in-the-australian-outback-and-now-scientists-know-what-caused-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/a-man-scouring-google-earth-found-a-mysterious-scar-in-the-australian-outback-and-now-scientists-know-what-caused-it","title":{"rendered":"A man scouring Google Earth found a mysterious scar in the Australian outback \u2014 and now scientists know what caused it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-man-scouring-google-earth-found-a-mysterious-scar-in-the-australian-outback-and-now-scientists-know-what-caused-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The find intrigued scientists, including my colleagues and I. Upon closer investigation, we realised the scar was created by a ferocious tornado that no-one knew had occurred. We outline the findings in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1071\/ES24023\">new research<\/a> published today.<\/p>\n<p>Tornadoes are a known threat in the United States and elsewhere. But they also <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.atmosres.2016.03.011\">happen in Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Without the power of technology, this remarkable example of nature\u2019s ferocity would have gone unnoticed. It\u2019s important to study the tornado\u2019s aftermath to help us predict and prepare for the next big twister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The find intrigued scientists, including my colleagues and I. Upon closer investigation, we realised the scar was created by a ferocious tornado that no-one knew had occurred. We outline the findings in new research published today. Tornadoes are a known threat in the United States and elsewhere. But they also happen in Australia. Without the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}