• Pirky@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      The image says what happens. It can’t hurt you, it’s against the rules.

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      They cancel it if the weather isn’t good, just in case they need it for real.

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      They’ll likely run a different signal than the normal test. If, for example, they normally test in “alert” (steady) then they might use the “attack” (wavering up and down) signal instead.

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      Like in 2017 in Mexico when the earthquake happened like two hours after their yearly earthquake drill. People figured it out pretty quickly, but I’ve never been in a tornado so I don’t know if it’d be as easy to tell as an earthquake.