Today was the first day in the escalating severe weather pattern in Bangladesh. The original plan was to head to Kulaura but that was based on storms having formed overnight in the Khasi Hills, throwing a boundary south and then…

After consultation with the forecast team, we decided on playing the boundary left from the previous convection that occurred overnight and in the early morning hours. Significant outflow boundary was being created around midnight with continued storms for several hours.

The last deadly tornado to hit Bangladesh struck last year (2013) on March 22nd in the district of Brahmanbaria. It was also the first Bengali tornado to be recorded by several cell phone cameras. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beh5eRdbzhM

I left for Munshiganj as a compromise target and after the long ferry and slow ride through winding small roads full of rickshaws, arrived to grab some lunch and visit local people. Here’s a proud Bangladeshi farmer who works near…

  Tornadoes are common in several regions of the world – the largest, most studied and densest is the Great Plains of America “Tornado Alley”. This area receives over 1,200 tornadoes per year, most occurring over sparsely populated landscapes and…