Mr Tornado - Ted Fujita

[LadyStanley]

This week on PBS' American Experience (Tuesday night on my local station) is coverage of meteorologist Ted Fujita who helped folks understand Tornados.

As in the Fujita scale which measures the strength of the tornado based on wind speed.

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[JMCx4]

Watched this Tuesday evening. Thought it could've been a half-hour longer, rather than rushing through how Fujita developed his interests in & acuity of pattern recognition when growing up in Japan. Though I guess it was his "American Experience" that warranted the feature piece. As presented, it just seemed a lower quality story than I'm used to from the series.