What's up with all these tornadoes?

[malaise]

Stay safe DUers!!

[baldguy]

1. What tornadoes?

The "scientists" say it's because of global warming, but global warming is a myth. Therefor, no tornadoes.

:sarcasm:

[malaise]

7. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Even the skeptical loonies should start worrying about all these tornadoes in winter

[hootinholler]

2. I don't know...

Weird air mass patterns.

I noticed but there's little interest.

-Hoot

[AngryOldDem]

3. If I understood the Weather Channel expert...

Warming patterns are making the atmosphere more and more unstable this time of year in the Midwest. Illinois, I think, has never seen tornadoes this late in the year.

I'm in Indiana and it is definitely weird here today. It's warm, cloudy, but every now and then the sun comes out. Then it rains (sometimes heavily) for a few minutes, and the cycle begins again. It's in the low 60s here and they're saying that the atmosphere is stable enough to make severe weather unlikely, but I don't know. There are tornado watches at the Illinois/Indiana border, and if this were spring I would defintely be on the lookout for bad weather.

And just a couple of weeks ago temperatures were WAY below normal. We had record snowfall for December and now today, it's practically all gone.

[malaise]

9. Scary

Weather patterns are changing everywhere.

[AngryOldDem]

11. Sounds like Indiana may be under the gun later on tonight. n/t

[prolesunited]

4. Global warming is misleading

Climate change allows people to see the connections.

[Mark Maker]

5. Looks like a rerun of 1947

http://www.worldlingo.com/ma/enwiki/en/List_of_North_American_tornadoes_and_tornado_outbreaks


New Year's Eve tornado outbreak of 1947 December 31, 1947 Southern U.S. - 20 fatalities, 256 injuries (7 significant, 1 violent, 3 killer)

Year I was born and more importantly the year of the Roswell UFO Incident. Coincidence? I don't think so.

*eerie background music*

[malaise]

8. Another great link from a DUer

Thanks. All the best for 2011 :toast:

[jwirr]

6. Talked with my sister - niece and nephew are being evacuated in

MO - near St. Louis. And they are worried about NE. This is very rare. Scanned through the list at your link for winter tornado happenings. Most are in the south which makes sense because they have warmer weather all year round. The furthest north i found was in MO just below the Iowa boarder. If these go further than that then they are very different. Interesting site. Thanks.

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. Wiki reports variances in number of tornadoes in Dec/Jan.

So this is not unknown, the pattern varies widely.
some years had few Dec. tornadoes, some had 20 or more.
The season really gets going from Feb. thru April.

edited to add:
page of tornadoes for last 100 plus years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_tornadoes_and_tornado_outbreaks



2001 ( this measures only the "killer tornadoes of the year"





for example: 2002




2007:

[Edweird]

12. According to this page there were 888 Dec. tornadoes from 1959 to 2004.

http://www.tornadochaser.net/december.html