Tornadoes Are Coming in Bunches. Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out Why.
www.nytimes.com
The number of tornadoes so far in the United States this year is just above average. But their distribution is changing.

While the timing of this trend lines up with the planet’s rising temperatures, scientists are hesitant to definitively attribute tornadoes’ clustering behavior to human-caused climate change.

“The link between climate change and tornadoes is still pretty tenuous,” Dr. Fricker said. “It’s a really open and difficult question for us.” One difficulty is that tornadoes are too small on a planetary scale, and too ephemeral, to show up in the global mathematical models that scientists use to study climate change.

  • 0110010001100010@lemmy.world
    36·
    7 months ago

    My state of Ohio, as of April 22nd, has had 35 confirmed tornadoes (and I know there are quite a few still to be officially added). The average for the ENTIRE YEAR is 22. We had 57 last year. Something is not OK…

  • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    Got like 4 tornados within an hour of each other last night in Huntsville.

    Certainly not loving it.

  • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
    3·
    7 months ago

    I’ve lived in the same part of Ohio my entire life (I’m 28) and in the entire time I’ve lived here we had exactly 1 tornado touch down in the county. Within the past two years alone we’ve had at least 4 in the state and two of which I ended up driving through by accident.

    We’re all so fucked it’s unreal.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
      31·
      7 months ago

      Yes, but it’s not at all obvious why that set of things would change the temporal distribution of tornado formation in this way without increasing their quantity.

      • halcyon@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        I really don’t get why you argue with every comment on the articles you post, this is at least the third time you’ve gone out of the way to discourage a comment I’ve tried to make, in communities that could really use the engagement.

        The article is paywalled and you quoted that block about the tenuous link directly, seeming to imply it was meaningful or warranting discussion.