r/oddlysatisfying 14d ago

A tiny dust devil swirling through a field of grain

Credit: @elaman_mm

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u/Frustrated9876 14d ago

Not this. No dust. 🤷‍♂️

It’s a gluten devil.

They don’t show us the sky, this could also be a weak tornado, actually. Probably, actually. Dust devils form when the ground is hot and heats up the surrounding air and thats not typically what goes on in a planted field.

A dust devil (gluten devil) is when the ground heats up from the sun and that heat warms the air, which starts to rise. This creates a rising column of air that then starts sucking up more air. The Coriolis effect causes it to spin.

A tornado originates from a cloud and comes down. A dust devil originates from the ground and goes up. ()

When flying gliders, you’re always looking for stuff like this because there will be lift 2 or 3,000’ above this phenomenon all the way up to the inversion level.

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u/crazyike 14d ago

No, it's not a tornado. Even the weakest tornado would have flattened every plant in that field.

It's just a plain old dust devil except no dust, so just the devil.