Sunday, February 26, 2017

The brilliant way weather geeks paid tribute to ‘Twister’ star Bill Paxton

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Hundreds of storm chasers and weather geeks mourned the death of U.S. actor Bill Paxton this weekend.

Paxton, who was 61, starred alongside Helen Hunt in Twister, the 1996 film that helped inspire a new generation of storm chasers — those thrill-seekers who track down dangerous weather events for the sake of scientific data, a rush of adrenaline, or both. 

In the movie, Paxton and Hunt play a struggling couple that teams up to create an advance weather alert system, putting them square in the path of violent tornadoes.  Read more…

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