Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! You may have heard of the butterfly effect, where butterflies flapping their wings somehow cause tornadoes. Although it seems pretty unlikely, butterflies can affect the weather, just not in the way you might think.
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Sources:
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Images:
https://www.videoblocks.com/video/butterfly-on-flower-q7ml8zm
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4563
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30644
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_7090_console_used_by_a_meteorologist,_1965.jpg
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ADouble_pendulum_simultaneous_realisations.ogv
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30701
