[Innovative]

Too bad for those affected.

[ClearCase_guy]

Roy W. Spencer, a weather and climate researcher at the University of Alabama, said that "perfect conditions" to produce tornadoes this year have developed as "winter has refused to lose its grip on the western United States."

So ... not Global Warming, eh?

[Responsibility2nd]

I blame Gore-bull Warming.

[pfflier]

is still nearly double the 3-year average of 226 cyclones.

The are playing with words probably unintentionally.

Storms can be cyclonic without producing tornadoes. A cyclonic storm (technically a cyclone) is a storm that rotates. Few of these produce tornadoes.

All that being said, it is one of the coolest periods I can recall in 26 years or so in southern kalifornia and western Arizona. Heater on this morning?? Come on!!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Power is out in NW Arkansas, on generator, wife on oxygen,her machine and air fan are now hooked to the generator.

First time I ever had to start it, other than testing, due to a power failure.

Lit all the oil lamps in the house. Cat scared puppy, OK and happy.

On battery powered laptop. More storms coming out way.

[bgill]

Trump’s fault!

[Hyman Roth]

The cause is global warming oh wait global cooling.....oh wait climate change....or is it global emergency. I am so confused........

[Hot Tabasco]

A cold trough over the Rockies and a high-pressure ridge over the Southeast sending forced warm, moist air into the central U.S......The jet stream is "the highway of these storms rolling over the same areas,"

Now that explains why we here in S.E. Michigan have been getting so much rain over the past two weeks with more predicted in the coming days.......

Typically we can track storms moving from west to east but all this rain has been coming up in a north easterly direction from the Gulf.......

[Bubba_Leroy]

The technical term is “bad weather” or simply “weather.”

Weather is a complex system that is affected primarily by (1) the sun, (2) Earth’s orbit around the sun, (3) Earth’s rotation, (4) gravity from the moon, (5) the moon’s orbit around the Earth, (6) cosmic radiation, and (7) the effects of all of the above on Earth’s atmosphere. SUV’s and cow farts may have some effect on weather, but they are not in the top 1000.

[wbill]

is still nearly double the 3-year average of 226 cyclones

Or... it could be because there were very few tornadoes last year and the 3-year average is all screwed up.

Weather Hysteria. Not unlike the "Historic, Unprecedented Mississippi River flooding" that's going on right now. I was in St. Louis for the '93 Mississippi flooding. That was "Historic and Unprecedented" as well, the river was 50 miles wide, in places, IIRC. But it wasn't as bad as it was in 1927. And so on.

No doubt that it's miserable for those affected. But hysteria doesn't help them out.

[fella]

It’s called a Grand Solar Minimum. It alters the jet-streams and changes the weather patterns.