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Posted on 12/28/2018 7:51:13 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The Washington Post reports that, with just a few days left in the year, 2018 will be the first year with no violent tornadoes since records began to be kept in 1950. This year is also vying to be a record for lowest number of fatalities from tornadoes.
It has been predicted that, due to climate change, storms would become more frequent and more violent. In the United States, this appears not to be the case – and not just for this year.
This year's goose-egg may seem to fit a recent pattern.
In simple terms, there have been downtrends in violent tornado numbers both across the entire modern period, and when looking at just the period since Doppler radar was fully implemented across the country in the mid-1990s. A 15-year average as high as 13.7 in the mid-1970s will drop to 5.9 next year.
Expanding to include all "intense" tornadoes, or those F/EF3+, this year's 12 is also poised to set a record for the fewest. I wrote about this back in May, and 2018 has kept pace for record lows since then.
Right now, the mark there is held by 1987, when there were 15 F3+ tornadoes. As with violent tornadoes, this grouping is also exhibiting both a short- and long-term decrease in annual numbers, probably for similar reasons.
What reasons are those?
The causes for 2018′s lack of violent tornadoes are many, but one key factor is high pressure tending to be more dominant than normal throughout peak season this past spring. This was particularly so during April and May, when tornado numbers were below to well below normal.
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It must be remembered that "Climate Change" is a religious idea, not a scientific theory. It explains everything and predicts nothing.
Orange man bad!
Which never made any sense according to their own theories. They predicted the polar regions would warm more than the tropics and night would warm more than day. Thus temperature differentials which drive severe storms would be less under global warming.
No tornadoes can be caused by global warming too.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
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https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2018/09/27/the-chill-of-solar-minimum/
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