Can you drag up a record . . .
of 29 serious tornadoes within a relatively small geographic area within a 12 or so hour period anywhere in the USA before?
Whether we ascribe it to sunspots etc.
or weather technologies . . .
are you REALLY claiming that weather’s been NORMAL recently?
Two minutes on Google searching 'Super Outbreak 1974 map' (you have heard of the '74 Super Outbreak, havent you?) found this:
http://www.april31974.com/images/mapillinois.gif
Check up around Cincy - you might need to paste the map into Word and zoom it up to see the intensity numbers - but lots of F3, F4 and F5 tornadoes up that way.
So in other words, this outbreak was very comparable to the Super Outbreak in 1974 in terms of number of fatalities and number of tornadoes and number of major tornadoes, including a concentration of a lot of strong tornadoes in one area - the Super Outbreak was a bit more spread out overall, but covered much of the same area as was hit this week. In other words, nothing new or unique to it.
That's the problem with you conspiracy types, quix - if you spend a fraction of the time researching science as you spend on abovetopsecret, you'd realize there are historical parallels to what happened Wednesday.
Quix. It’s weather. Weather happens.
Tornadoes are almost impossible to predict accurately. Conditions favorable for tornado outbreaks can be forecast with reasonable accuracy, but to predict the numbers and locations is just beyond our technology.
That said, if they can’t be predicted, they certainly can’t be caused. There is just too much energy involved in weather systems for anything man can do to affect them. You might as well be spitting on a forest fire to put it out for all the good attempts at weather manipulation can or will do.
There are lots of major tornado outbreaks because the weather conditions and geography favor them. It comes with the territory in the US.
Massive tornado outbreaks are nothing new. These links show records back only a couple decades. There’s no way to know what *normal* is because tornadoes don’t leave evidence as other natural disasters do. If there’s no one to see it and record it, there’s no way to know what may have happened.
And you can’t base normal on such a statistically small sampling anyway.
Tri-State Tornado
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-State_Tornado
List of North American tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_tornadoes_and_tornado_outbreaks