from the 🎶-the-answer-is-blowin'-in-the-wind-🎶 dept.
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: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday October 19 2018, @11:00AM (4 children)
The Mississippi delta maybe but most of the South has hills sufficient to make tornadoes not too much of an issue.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by SpockLogic on Friday October 19 2018, @12:37PM
Florida - Hills? I don't think so.
Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday October 19 2018, @12:39PM
The tornadoes that ripped through northwest Georgia / northeast Alabama ~5-10 years back didn't seem to care too much about the hills they shaved clean.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by stormreaver on Friday October 19 2018, @01:37PM
Hills neither help nor hinder tornadoes. Tornadoes don't usually jump over valleys (the set of complex conditions that support tornadoes can vary), but rather roll down them and up the other side. And hills don't stop tornadoes from forming, though elevation can matter under some circumstances (such as those places on earth that are close to, or above, the storm system altitude).
(Score: 1) by DuganCent on Friday October 19 2018, @02:58PM
I'm in very hilly southern Indiana. In the early 70s a F5 started in kentucky, rolled down the several hundred foot drop into the ohio river, crossed it, went up the other side and kept going. We have tornadoes here constantly (at least a dozen a year within 30mi of me). They aren't uncommon at all in hilly areas.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @11:10AM
How do y'all like them apples now?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by fadrian on Friday October 19 2018, @12:56PM (2 children)
The Deep South should get to work on its tornado shelters?
The Deep South should get to work on electing politicians who will do something about climate change.
That is all.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday October 19 2018, @08:03PM (1 child)
Do you have a reason for that belief? Evidence maybe?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @10:55PM
Yes, its proven that taxes are statistically significantly inversely correlated with climate change.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @01:23PM (7 children)
This proves the climate change.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday October 19 2018, @04:45PM (5 children)
Maybe.
FWIW, I believe in climate change already, but I'm not convinced that this is related. It *could* be, but I'd need some grounds for the attribution, e.g. "tornadoes are normally driven west by the more active jet stream", but that explanation looks really fallacious for this event.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @06:24PM (4 children)
Climate change theorists predicted that tornadoes would increase east of the Mississippi river but decrease west of it.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday October 19 2018, @08:02PM (3 children)
Did they, eh? So this is a prediction then?
A glaring warning sign of anti-scientific bias is false confidence.
(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]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @11:34PM
This proves climate change if you're a gullible millennial.
FTFY
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @04:30PM
stop building mobile homes east of the mississippi?