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Tornado, severe weather outbreak most 'prolonged stretch' in 8 years -- and here's why
Fox News ^ | May 29, 2019 | Travis Fedschun

Posted on 05/29/2019 9:58:50 AM PDT by Innovative

A two-week onslaught of volatile weather has wrought death and destruction from the Southern Plains to the Northeast, bombarding the country's interior with disaster after disaster all because of a stalled weather pattern.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Storm Prediction Center has received more than 500 reports of tornadoes in the last 30 days. The 442 twisters reported in May -- which is historically tornado season's busiest month -- is still nearly double the 3-year average of 226 cyclones.

"The threat is ongoing in the same areas we have seen over the past couple of days," Fox News Senior Meteorologist Janice Dean said Wednesday on "FOX & friends."

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: noaa; tornado; trends; weather
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Too bad for those affected.
1 posted on 05/29/2019 9:58:50 AM PDT by Innovative
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Roy W. Spencer, a weather and climate researcher at the University of Alabama, said that "perfect conditions" to produce tornadoes this year have developed as "winter has refused to lose its grip on the western United States."

So ... not Global Warming, eh?

2 posted on 05/29/2019 10:01:01 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Danged global cooling! Somebody douse the winter already!


3 posted on 05/29/2019 10:02:55 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Innovative

I blame Gore-bull Warming.


4 posted on 05/29/2019 10:04:51 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
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To: Innovative
is still nearly double the 3-year average of 226 cyclones.

The are playing with words probably unintentionally.

Storms can be cyclonic without producing tornadoes. A cyclonic storm (technically a cyclone) is a storm that rotates. Few of these produce tornadoes.

All that being said, it is one of the coolest periods I can recall in 26 years or so in southern kalifornia and western Arizona. Heater on this morning?? Come on!!

5 posted on 05/29/2019 10:06:35 AM PDT by pfflier
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Power is out in NW Arkansas, on generator, wife on oxygen,her machine and air fan are now hooked to the generator.

First time I ever had to start it, other than testing, due to a power failure.

Lit all the oil lamps in the house. Cat scared puppy, OK and happy.

On battery powered laptop. More storms coming out way.


6 posted on 05/29/2019 10:11:03 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Three days in FB prison for this...'What was "IT"? A DNA XX or a DNA XY?')
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Good work. Hope you have several days’ of generator fuel or can get to a gas station easily.

During hurricane Irma our power was out for 5 days. Luckily as a boater I had plenty of 5 and 6-gal portable fuel tanks and there are two gas stations a mile away which never lost power.


7 posted on 05/29/2019 10:16:16 AM PDT by Justa
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To: ClearCase_guy

If glaciers were to instantly cover half of North America we’d be told it’s Global Warming at work.


8 posted on 05/29/2019 10:16:53 AM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: Innovative

Trump’s fault!


9 posted on 05/29/2019 10:23:25 AM PDT by bgill (when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
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It’s plenty warm in the SE.


10 posted on 05/29/2019 10:26:12 AM PDT by Romulus
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I was actually going to reply that what was different this year: CO is still getting snow. We are COLD still.


11 posted on 05/29/2019 10:27:18 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I said a prayer for you, because I know how scary it is to deal with unstoppable weather and have a loved one on oxygen.
My dad needed it 24/7 and I signed him up with the electric company who were required to work on returning power to his home first (along with hospitals etc). And if needed, the town was required to take him and his equipment to a shelter.
Don’t know if this is available in your state, but it made us ‘kids’ feel a whole lot better. We could plan for a hurricane, a blizzard, but you can’t plan for tornados; they just happen.
God Bless- SZQ


12 posted on 05/29/2019 10:28:28 AM PDT by homegroan (Ambition can creep as well as soar.)
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To: pfflier

I have a heater on beside me and am wrapped up in a blanket.


13 posted on 05/29/2019 10:28:41 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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The cause is global warming oh wait global cooling.....oh wait climate change....or is it global emergency. I am so confused........


14 posted on 05/29/2019 10:38:48 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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Colorado can have snow falling on the 4th of July in the mountains. Blame an extended El Niño for the wacky weather


15 posted on 05/29/2019 10:40:27 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: Innovative
A cold trough over the Rockies and a high-pressure ridge over the Southeast sending forced warm, moist air into the central U.S......The jet stream is "the highway of these storms rolling over the same areas,"

Now that explains why we here in S.E. Michigan have been getting so much rain over the past two weeks with more predicted in the coming days.......

Typically we can track storms moving from west to east but all this rain has been coming up in a north easterly direction from the Gulf.......

16 posted on 05/29/2019 10:40:30 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (uizzzp)
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The technical term is “bad weather” or simply “weather.”

Weather is a complex system that is affected primarily by (1) the sun, (2) Earth’s orbit around the sun, (3) Earth’s rotation, (4) gravity from the moon, (5) the moon’s orbit around the Earth, (6) cosmic radiation, and (7) the effects of all of the above on Earth’s atmosphere. SUV’s and cow farts may have some effect on weather, but they are not in the top 1000.


17 posted on 05/29/2019 10:49:09 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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That is not what I am referring to.

I am not in the mtns and am getting late season snow; we are struggling to get out of the 50s during the day, and were still freezing at night last week, barely getting out of freezing range this week.

This longer cold spell is related to the outbreak of the tornadoes.


18 posted on 05/29/2019 10:50:37 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: Hyman Roth

It’s morphed into “climate crisis” because those other words weren’t scary enough.


19 posted on 05/29/2019 10:57:13 AM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Global cooling is coming. They sunspots say so. And oh, boy, is it going to be a doozie.


20 posted on 05/29/2019 11:06:53 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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