Meet Anirudh Rao, the 11-year-old who turned a tornado disaster into a drone-and-sensor system aiming to extend alerts from 13 to 40 minutes
- PC: Action for NatureAt just 11, Anirudh Rao began looking at tornado warnings from a different angle: not how to predict storms perfectly, but how to give people more time to respond.
- Growing up in Colorado, where tornadoes are a recurring threat, Rao developed Revere, a prototype system combining drones and sensors that measure factors such as infrasound, temperature and atmospheric pressure.
- His project aims to explore whether gathering information closer to developing storms could extend warning times from about 13 minutes to as much as 40 minutes.
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- PC: Action for NatureAt just 11, Anirudh Rao began looking at tornado warnings from a different angle: not how to predict storms perfectly, but how to give people more time to respond.
- Growing up in Colorado, where tornadoes are a recurring threat, Rao developed Revere, a prototype system combining drones and sensors that measure factors such as infrasound, temperature and atmospheric pressure.
- His project aims to explore whether gathering information closer to developing storms could extend warning times from about 13 minutes to as much as 40 minutes.
Sources: Times of India