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posted by martyb on Friday October 19 2018, @07:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the 🎶-the-answer-is-blowin'-in-the-wind-🎶 dept.

ScienceNews:

Twisters are twirling away from Tornado Alley.

From 1979 to 2017, annual tornado frequency slightly decreased over the region, which stretches across the central and southern Great Plains of the United States, a study finds. Conversely, a higher number of storms touched down in areas east of the Mississippi River over the same period, researchers report October 17 in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science.

"The great Tornado Alley is still No. 1 in terms of [overall] frequency," says coauthor Victor Gensini, an applied climatologist at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. But more tornadoes in communities ill-prepared to face the relatively unfamiliar storms, such as in the southeastern United States, could mean more infrastructure damage and loss of life.

The Deep South should get to work on its tornado shelters?


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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @04:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @04:30PM (#750999)

    stop building mobile homes east of the mississippi?

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