Allow me to push the envelope here a bit by moving from tornadoes to whatever the equivalent of a hurricane is in the southern hemisphere. Here in the northern hemisphere the news networks hardly mention such storms occurring in the southern hemisphere nor any mention of such destruction as occurs in the north. Do you have them? How frequently? I understand they would be anti-cyclonic but haven't guessed at what their prevailing paths would be nor how often they would intersect surface land boundaries. Damienpaul, please give us a quick update and short history or tell us how to get one.

Those who monitor Jupiter and Saturn must see similar activity in the northern and southern hemispheres of these giants and must have some conclusions about comparitive severity across hemispheres. Anyone know what they have concluded?

Do tornadoes in each hemisphere mimic the cyclonicity of hurricanes? In the northern pacific what criteria are used to call a storm a typhoon versus a hurricane?

If we built huge water catching tankers that could withstand the ravages of these huge storms would we have a viable and economic fresh water source supplement? How much water could we withdraw from these super evaporators without causing detrimental consequences?

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For those inclined to oppose human meddling with the structure of the universe or the composition and configuration of objects and groups of objects within the universe, consider:
Whether there is a limit to the magnitude of a modulation of chaos below which order remains invariant? Or, is order but a fiction invented by perspectives applied over finite, however large, time intervals?