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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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @09:07PM (2 children)
Climate scientists use ensembles of models that predict every possible outcome of climate change. Each model makes assumptions that contradict the other models. Then once something happens they go back and cherry pick the ones that "predicted" the right thing. Its like string theory or dark matter theory, once we start heading towards the next mini-ice age they will say they predicted that too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @09:32PM (1 child)
Complete nonsense. Do you have any evidence for that statement or are you pulling out of your ass as usual?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @10:44PM
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_ensemble [wikipedia.org]
https://www.livescience.com/3751-global-warming-chill-planet.html [livescience.com]