Comments on: Too Many Tornadoes

By: Hank Roberts

Hank Roberts — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 20:48:14 +0000

> July 18th, 1986 Fridley, Minnesota Tornado

Video no longer available, apparently?

By: DSKS

DSKS — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:54:59 +0000

In our part of Missouri we tend to be a bit more skittish about tornado warnings (my native wife is a weather channel freak) because the lie of the land makes it difficult to eyeball them, even when they aren’t sneaking around under a cloak of rain. In flatter country, I imagine you can afford to be a bit more macho, unless you’re unlucky enough to have one touch down right on top of you.

By: Eric Lund

Eric Lund — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:50:15 +0000

So we get hurricanes in the North Atlantic but not in the South Atlantic. Which is why the Brazilian meteorological service tried to insist, for almost a year after the fact, that Cyclone Catarina was not a hurricane (which it was). Similarly, tornados are rare outside the American Midwest, but they do happen. We had a bad one in New Hampshire a year ago; you can still see some of the damage it did where the path crossed US 4 in Epsom.

By: Tony P

Tony P — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:12:47 +0000

The real effects of global warming don’t start coming out until you apply statistical methods to the data.

E.g. average temperatures are up +2F. Not a terribly noticeable difference but it’s there.

Then of course there is observation of local events. I’ve seen lots more flooding here in RI over the past 6 to 8 years than I had the decades before that.