Over 1,000 tornadoes are recorded each year in the United States. With their ability to arrive unannounced, coupled with hundreds-of-miles-an-hour winds, they can obliterate everything in their path before disappearing, destroying homes and lives in the process.

Curtis McDonald, resident meteorologist at CoreLogic, joins the podcast to talk with host Maiclaire Bolton Smith about how, despite his mother's fears, he got into storm chasing, how valuable these observations are to creating rapid intel and algorithms for insurers and financial institutions, and what climate change might mean for the future of tornadoes and severe weather.