Posted on 04/16/2023 7:42:31 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
That is an outdated graphic. Tornado alley has become much wider, having expanded to include Arkansas and Mississipi, while extended halfway through Kentucky and Tennessee. Tornado alley is no longer confined to the midwestern plains from Texas to Nebraska.
Because back then “Tornado Alley” was smaller than it should have been.
Especially when arguably the worst tornado outbreak happened in Ohio and Kentucky in the 1974 Outbreak.
They are not even saying tornado activity is increasing, just the pattern is changing — expanding eastward and coming more in the winter and less in the summer than prior decades.
“The number, damage and deadliness of individual tornadoes has held roughly steady over the past 50 years, federal experts with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration told The Hill.”
“Major tornadoes — those that merit rating on the Fujita scale — have been ‘a relatively consistent 500 per year, and we don’t see any evidence that the intensity has changed,’ Brooks said.”
“ ‘This past winter and our early spring has been as active as I can remember in years,’ said William Bunting.’The increased winter tornado activity — a recurring pattern over the last several years — is unusual.’ “
“This January had more than three times as many tornadoes as the historical average; February had half again as many, and March had twice as many.”
Could it be because.. "the ONLY thing that's PERMANENT is CHANGE?"
LOL! Yup!
Rye Cove was before global warming/climate change terrorism.
I blame the Canadians!
Check this out,,,,,,,,,,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNnY6Yi5iqs
Watching it now. Dayum!
Fair enough...
Many of us expanded during the COVID lockdowns.
Which means we’re all gonna die...AGAIN!!!
I was watching this video about some survivalist/prepper chick in Austria who mentioned in her latest video that this April is turning out to be colder than December. They’ve recently had a lot of rain and it keeps raining.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUdf-_nL5PE&ab_channel=SurvivalLilly
However, the article clearly states the number Fujita-rated tornados per year has averaged around 500 for as long as reliable records have been kept. The variation is in where and when. Obviously there is more $$ value damage now, as the article explains. (More people with more goodies, and higher population densities in the "new" alley.)
*Note carefully that a declared tornado is not a confirmed Fujita-rated tornado. An official "F" rating (old scale or new scale) from NWS is ONLY determined by ground observation of actual damage. This is NOT the same as your local TV met looking at a radar signature and blurting out "this is a F-1 moving toward such-and-such town." NWS generally does not state F ratings until on the ground surveys are done. They might say "large and dangerous tornado on the ground, moving toward xxx, catastrophic damage expected" in a warning, but, that storm is still not a recorded F rated storm (though it likely will become so recorded after the ground surveys are done.)
One other thing: The article & Mr. Brooks are completely wrong when they state:
"the deadliest tornadoes in U.S. history happened more than a century ago: an 1890 tornado that hit Louisville, Ky. and an 1896 one that devastated St. Louis, Mo. in 1896, Brooks said."
By a considerable margin, the deadliest tornado in U.S. history was the Tri-State tornado of 1925.
My point is they may have loosened the criteria for designating tornadoes and their strengths as well, by using computer modeling, rather than more traditional metrics.
I don’t trust this push to blame everything on anthropogenic climate change. You obviously buy into it. Different strokes for different folks.
I re-read your response. Ignore my comment about climate change and you.
I re-read your response. Please ignore my comment about climate change and you.
“It’s called... Mother Nature.”
Is that the new nic for the geoengineering ghouls that have been playing god with the weather since the Vietnam War (and probably before that)?
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