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US Drought Brings A Surprise Benefit: No Tornados (cnn.com)
Slashdot reader turkeydance tipped us off to news that America hasn't had a single tornado in November, even though last year it experienced 99, and averages 58 every November. CNN reports:
Drought is overwhelming Southeastern states this fall, and temperatures have soared, depleting ground moisture. Storms need moist air to develop, and the lack of moisture this fall has inhibited storm development both for the much needed rain and the formation of supercell storms capable of producing tornadoes. Precipitation has been near or at zero for weeks in the region. The last measurable day of rain in Birmingham, Alabama, was September 18... As a result, wildfires have become the main disaster threat this fall.
The last five years have all seen a below-average number of tornados, and between 2012 and 2014 the U.S. saw fewer tornadoes than any previous three-year stretch.
Interesting.
As they say, everything is connected to everything else.
http://www.geoffreylandis.com
Will climate activists blame the drought on global warming and try to argue that we should have more frequent/severe tornadoes?
Another benefit of climate change...bring on the emissions!
I live just outside of Birmingham, AL. Back on September 18th I bought the best umbrella I've ever owned. It works so well that it won't let rain come within a hundred miles of me.
That's the honest truth and I don't know what to do. I really want to keep the umbrella, but my yard needs rain. The grass crunches when I walk across the yard. It's drier than my ex-wife.
will love this and spin it as much as possible into the "right" direction.
This statistic will not really be interesting until November is over. We are less than half way through it. So really this story is saying that the US has not had a tornado for less than two weeks so what it should be compared to is how often that happens. If they really want to pull stupid stunts like this they should at least try to make it really sensational. They can run a story half way through January claiming that that US has had no tornadoes all year, Britain can have one claiming that the sun has not shone all year due to the clouds and in Canada we'll have the story about snow on the ground all the year....ok so that last one is true otherwise all our igloos would melt but you get the point.
Captain Freedom should be appointed Secretary of State or Secretary of Defense. Nobody messes with Captain Freedom.
Learn to love Alaska
Back before humans controlled the rivers, that'd be enough. The floods would fill the swamps, and the swamps would be wet until the next flood. Now, with levees and canals, the floods are directed to the ocean, so the ground doesn't get the water, the ocean does. Then we complain the ground is dry. Like we didn't know how rain works.
Learn to love Alaska
No more liberals! Off to Canada you go babies! No free college for you!
Notice that none of these people ever threaten to go to, you know, Mexico?
Because they're closet bigots and cowards.
Thanks to the drought, there have been *no* sharknadoes either!
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
We had one for near a decade which has mostly subsided the last few years, sadly
As an asthmatic and hayfever sufferer, the difference is night and day. I honestly thought I'd 'grown out' of my asthma and hayfever as I basically didn't have symptoms for near a decade, or exceedingly rare / lite symptoms.
Last 2 years and especially this year, just a disaster, not fun at all.
Firenados are up 9000% in the Southeast.