December outbreaks are nothing new...has happened many times...also, February outbreaks....same thing....
I’ve been using this one for lefties on twitter who are claiming “climate change” is to blame; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1896_tornado_outbreak_sequence
484 dead in an era with less population density and happened before the automobile and the US’s Industrial Age. I think my great grandpa was still delivering milk in his horse and carriage in Massachusetts. He had one milk cow and one horse and supplied milk to half the town.
“”” A total of 484 people were killed during the entire outbreak sequence by at least 38 different tornadoes which struck Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Kentucky, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland.[nb 1][nb 2] “””
It’s just the ultimate to shut the dumbasses down.
Remember it all too well
Lost my 86 yo grandmother in that one
This outbreak likely had many more tornadoes...it’s just that we didn’t have todays radar or spotter networks back then to pinpoint.
This was one of the strongest tornadoes ever..even for an F5 it was extremely violent
VIDEO: The Xenia, Ohio Tornado of 1974 Video
https://rumble.com/vk0ps7-the-xeniaohio-tornado-of-1974.html
Also, some leftist tried to argue December isn’t normal so I went here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_tornadoes_and_tornado_outbreaks, and hit Ctrl+F and searched for “December” and found 26 different tornadoes or tornado outbreaks and many more for Nov, Jan, Feb, March that are outside the typical tornado season.
I also pointed out that weather data has only been kept since the late 1800s and to start with, it was newspaper records. The National Weather Service wasn’t created until 1870.
Still have the Rochester (Indiana) paper from that event
Picture of my grandma’s house after the storm on the wall
I remember these tornadoes very well…
I lived near a hospital not far from Brandenberg, KY. I remember lots of MEDEVAC flights the next day.
I was 7 years old in the lower midwest when this happened. Seems like I spent the whole night in the basement with my parents listening to an old Elgin analog radio with push button controls for police band radio. That thing is still in my mom’s house somewhere.
I was a freshman in high school during the ‘74 outbreak.
Tornadoes love me. My house has been hit 3 times, I’ve driven thru two.
And my cruise ship was very neat a water spout.