# tornadoes 60 year low

USA TODAY | May 10th, 2013 | Doyle Rice

[DManA]

Rush is talking about this May 10th USA today article that says the # of tornadoes the last 12 months is the lowest since 1950. Google it.

[humblegunner]

I’ve never heard of hashtag tornadoes.

[DManA]

Octothorpe

[brivette]

no. kidding?

[humblegunner]

You know what an Octothorpe is but were unable to type “The number of”?

[DManA]

Yes. Deal with it.

[humblegunner]

Deal with it.

Isn't confronting it a good way of dealing with it?

[Marcella]

I believe that is true since it stayed much cooler here in Texas this spring. Normally, tornados start much earlier so I expect more of them now since Texas weather is much hotter the past week. The southern air is heating up and sending that heat to the cooler weather north and it is exploding. Spring tornados are usually over by the time hurricane season starts in June. That may not happen this time, the tornados may keep going into the first part of hurricane season. When the weather north warms up, too, then tornados are less likely.

[DManA]

No. It is an inane way of dealing with it.

[DManA]

The article counts all tornadoes for the past 12 months.

[OB1kNOb]

USA Today ought to ask Moore, OK what they think about that statistic.

[jeffc]

The lib answer to that (fewer tornadoes) is easy. They’ll say, “Yes! But they are much more devastating and destructive. It’s for the children!! Now where is my large Chevy Suburban limo?”

[NormsRevenge]

Pay no attention to Facts..

They are ‘irrelevant’, the WH says so.

[Marcella]

“The article counts all tornadoes for the past 12 months.”

I understand. If this spring had been normal, the number would be much higher.

[humblegunner]

The article counts all tornadoes for the past 12 months.

Was there an article? Maybe you should have posted it.

[DManA]

Can’t link to USA Today. Copyright problems.

[DManA]

It means last spring was low too.

[Western Phil]

There were few tornadoes last year due to the drought and few earlier this year due to the cold spring.

[Marcella]

Joe Cantori with Accuweather, the best weather guy in my book, says weather patterns repeat themselves and last year there were less hurricanes, too. He is predicting a higher than normal number of hurricanes this year. I don’t know if “spring” tornados are over this year since the weather was so cool for so long this time.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Can’t link to USA Today.

Incorrect. You can link to Gannett publications. You cannot post excerpts from Gannett publications.

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