Posted on 04/29/2011 5:58:06 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Beyond the dramatic YouTube videos and the devastating stories of lives lost, the recent swell of tornado news has left many people wondering what's driving the sudden swirl of destruction. Does global warming have anything to do with it? And how much more extreme is it going to get?
For better and for worse, experts say, these are questions that they can't answer with certainty. Climate change doesn't act in any particular way on the level of tornadoes. What's more, the frequency of tornadoes in one month does not predict how many twisters will strike in the months that follow.
Instead, this month's turn of events is a result of a sort of perfect atmospheric storm.
"It's sort of your classic combination that can produce large death tolls," Brooks said. "Large tornadoes that are very strong are moving through populated areas in a part of the country that has a high mobile home population. It's a combination of factors that we fortunately don't see very often."
A weakening La Niña may explain much of this April's damaging nature, said Paul Douglas, meteorologist and founder of Weather Nation.
"It's human nature to want a smoking gun, a simple explanation to a very complex atmospheric challenge," Douglas said on Thursday -- one day after the record-setting suite of storms. "Climate change may be one of the many contributing factors, but La Niña was probably a much more significant player in yesterday's historic outbreak."
"Tornadoes require a very specific menu of weather ingredients," he added. "And yesterday, all those factors converged on the Deep South."
As for what's to come, no one can say for sure.
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I live in Iowa and we have been 20-25 degrees below normal and if that air slams into normal temps there will be weather events. This has caused much of the major flooding in Iowa the last few years.
After 60+ years on this earth and with the records I have seen that date back thousands of years through earth core sampling, tree rings, etc. the one constant I have seen is change.
To extrapolate: I am not ready to fund Al Gores ponzi scheme to get rich off of carbon credits.
Mike
Obama got hold of the Rove Weather Machine and turned it on the red states.
Meteorologists probably feel the need.
That is the correct answer, **it happens.
“Large tornadoes that are very strong are moving through populated areas in a part of the country that has a high mobile home population.”
It’s a well documented fact that mobile homes cause tornadoes, and UFO sightings.
Also, more people and more houses thus more for tornadoes to destroy. Better detection and reporting of tornadoes due to having doppler radar that can track storms, and also create warnings to get folks to shelter. I’ve long held that the “increase” in hurricanes in the 60 years is due to being able to detect and track them when they are in the Atlantic, long before and if they hit land. Thus: Is a hurricane still a hurricane if it is born, lives, and dies totally out to sea with no human ever knowing about it?
Are you simply acknowledging that God is LORD over all Creation (which is true even without extreme WX) or is your message today "God hates you and wants you dead"
Instead of preaching the Anti-Gospel and a god that is difficult to distinguish from the Muslim's Allah, I would recommend:
Romans 8:18-22 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now...
The passage continues to show that mankind groans within ourselves awaiting the hope of redemption. Then deliver the Gospel Message rather than just say "God hates you and has a plan to destroy your life." sort of hopeless dreck.
OMG. I missed that thread.
Some FReepers are in dire need of therapy, and fast.
I also heard that in the la Nina pattern, the Pacific is ‘cooling’ and that is what contributed to this run....which will continue thru May.
so much for global warming with the Pacific getting cooler.
Yes it is different than most years from the fact that this was the largest number of tornados ever. The only year that compares is the 1974 SuperOutbreak. - of course none of this had a damn thing to do with this Climate Change nonsense.
Do they have tornedos in other parts of the world like this?
Just wondering.
“What’s Driving the Surge?”
Cold front squall lines moving into warmer, humidity laden air coming up from the Gulf.
—I’d be curious about large “outbreaks” previous to that one, too-—betcha that they have occurred as long as records have been kept—
—the area of Russia that is topographically and climatically similar to the U. S. midwest and south has tornados, IIRC-—
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