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Tornadoes on the East Coast May Be a Sign of Things to Come
New York Times ^ | August 8, 2018 | By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Posted on 08/08/2018 11:39:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

A tornado, albeit a weak one, touched down in New York City last Thursday, in the College Point neighborhood of Queens. A few days earlier, a stronger tornado was spotted near the town of Douglas, in central Massachusetts.

The storms were far from the region in the middle of the country known as Tornado Alley, where the bulk of the nation’s tornadoes occur. In a summer already marked by simmering heat that researchers have linked to global warming, is climate change also making tornadoes more common in places where they once were infrequent?

Though individual weather events are distinct from the more broadly changing climate, global warming does influence weather patterns. Still, any link between climate change and the frequency of tornadoes is far from straightforward, according to researchers.

Though it’s not possible to quantify to what degree, if any, climate change played a role in the tornadoes in New York and Massachusetts, researchers have some inkling into how climate change will affect tornadoes more broadly.

When scientists run climate models assuming global average temperatures of one degree Celsius (two degrees Fahrenheit) higher than preindustrial levels - where the Earth currently stands - some show an uptick in tornado frequency, but others do not. That disagreement, however, fades away at two degrees Celsius of warming, the threshold that the Paris climate agreement is intended to avoid. All the models agree that the frequency of tornadoes will increase by that point.

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Lets see...

I’ve lived on the east coast for at least 75% of my life.

There have ALWAYS been tornadoes on the east coast.

One in 2008 wrecked our day.

5.56mm


21 posted on 08/08/2018 12:02:56 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: deport

The map would be more interesting if it measured annual number of tornadoes per square mile.

Then Rhode Island might have a higher rate of tornadoes than Texas!


22 posted on 08/08/2018 12:03:58 PM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Calvin Locke; Oldeconomybuyer

A sign of things to come? Really?

Like the 1953 Worcester Tornado that was an F4-F5 that traveled on the ground 50 miles in about an hour and a half, leaving a path fully a mile wide nearly all the way, killing a hundred people and injuring thousands more?

So that one REALLY must have been a sign of “things to come”.

I would say these people are deluded, but in many cases, they are misinformed by people whose sole purpose in this is to cripple industry in this country and redistribute wealth via the UN to other countries, and those misinformed people become useful idiots.


23 posted on 08/08/2018 12:09:58 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NY tornadoes from...
1971....https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/30/archives/small-tornado-strikes-putnam-county-village.html

1983...https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/04/nyregion/3-dead-as-tornadoes-strike-in-11-counties-in-upstate-new-york.html

Maps....http://rochester.nydatabases.com/story/map-tornadoes-new-york


24 posted on 08/08/2018 12:19:20 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

#FakeNews and #FakeScience made to influence people with #FakeIntelligence.


25 posted on 08/08/2018 12:20:39 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We lived in CT for several years, while living there a F-4 tornado touched down in October 1979 in Windsor, CT (north of Hartford). An F-4 tornado is rare, but lesser strength tornadoes occur with some frequency throughout CT and other New England states.


26 posted on 08/08/2018 12:26:59 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“All the models agree that the frequency of tornadoes will increase by that point.”

Have they tried turning their amplifier frequency up to eleven? That would scare the tornadoes away!

*SMIRK*


27 posted on 08/08/2018 12:27:06 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: cgbg

SqMi includes water areas

TX 268,581

RI ... 1,545


28 posted on 08/08/2018 12:27:46 PM PDT by deport
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If they hit NYC, aren’t they supposed to be instantly deemed SUPERTORNADOES?


29 posted on 08/08/2018 12:29:01 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s all bullcrap.

Massachusetts has quite a few tornados for a northeastern state; they always have.

I remember seeing a photo recently of young Senator John F. Kennedy touring heavy tornado damage in Springfield, Mass., in the 1950’s.

When I lived in Massachusetts for a few years in the early 1970’s, a tornado hit a country club, I think it was in Chelmsford, Mass. A 14 year old girl was killed.

Just hours before, hundreds of people were at the site for a tennis match.


30 posted on 08/08/2018 12:31:22 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Washington is NOT a swamp.....It's a cesspool!)
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To: Constitution Day
If they hit NYC, aren’t they supposed to be instantly deemed SUPERTORNADOES?

If they land in New Jersey they become TORNF**KINGADOS.


31 posted on 08/08/2018 12:32:22 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
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32 posted on 08/08/2018 12:37:27 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sure sign of global warming and climate change...It’s getting creepy...I’ve noted days when it’s hot then it became cold, then it was windy but no wind the next day...Cloudy last week, not a cloud this week..I’ve seen it rain, then quickly changes and completely stops raining.

This clearly proves climate change is real.

No joke.


33 posted on 08/08/2018 12:47:57 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Can’t post a link right now but search

“New Jersey Antique Bottle Forum Conrad Friedeman”

For my article regarding a 19th century tornado in New Jersey


34 posted on 08/08/2018 12:55:17 PM PDT by XRdsRev (You can't spell HILLARY without the letters LIAR.)
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To: rlmorel
Like the 1953 Worcester Tornado that was an F4-F5 that traveled on the ground 50 miles in about an hour and a half, leaving a path fully a mile wide nearly all the way, killing a hundred people and injuring thousands more?

Glad you mentioned that. I was a tyke living in Westwood at the time and found paper debris in our yard the next day.

35 posted on 08/08/2018 12:58:35 PM PDT by CedarDave (DJT: "Rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than risk peace in the pursuit of politics.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"A tornado, albeit a weak one, touched down in New York City..."

It's called Bill de Blasio.

36 posted on 08/08/2018 1:15:25 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A tornado hit Washington DC in 1814 during the Burning of Washington by the Brits.


37 posted on 08/08/2018 1:17:38 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: CedarDave
They said debris was found hundreds of miles away in every direction.

As an aviation buff, the damage it did to the New England Air Museum was a real downer:


38 posted on 08/08/2018 1:21:46 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Constitution Day

“If they hit NYC, aren’t they supposed to be instantly deemed SUPERTORNADOES?”

Only if it’s “predicted” by the dimwits at the weather channel.


39 posted on 08/08/2018 1:28:28 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Then Pelosi will send her flying monkies for the Ruby slippers


40 posted on 08/08/2018 1:31:29 PM PDT by Waverunner (I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
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