Tornadoes Kill at Least 12 in Midwest (click title to entry - thank you)
Soledad O'Brien of CNN stated the tornado impact within the last 24 hours stretched across 270 miles.
This map is where the density of night time tornadoes have a history of occurring.
Soledad O'Brien of CNN stated the tornado impact within the last 24 hours stretched across 270 miles.
This map is where the density of night time tornadoes have a history of occurring.
Nighttime tornadoes (click here)are more dangerous because people are more likely to be asleep and not hear warnings....
There was only one major hurricane to hit the USA and a few minor tropical storms to reach North America last year. Irene was a Cat 3 storm and carried a wide diameter and huge amounts of water.
There were two other major hurricanes, Cat 4 Katina and Ophelia, but, they remained in the Atlantic. There were a total of nineteen storms in 2011 and only six made it to Cat 1 or more with only three being major of 3 and 4.
Hurricanes, as a rule, are a natural phenomena of Earth's physics that cool the troposphere by delivering heat into the oceans. That did not happen on a vast scale in 2011. The last time there was that kind of dynamic was 2005, the year of Katrina.
The incidence of tornadoes increase as the heat index of the troposphere increases. It is a simple relationship between tropospheric heat, available water vapor, hurricanes and tornadoes. Tornadoes result because of the heat and hurricanes take the heat away from tornado occurrences. Therefore, if there is a weak hurricane season the incidence of tornadoes increases. That has become all the more evident as we witness this Climate Crisis.
There were two other major hurricanes, Cat 4 Katina and Ophelia, but, they remained in the Atlantic. There were a total of nineteen storms in 2011 and only six made it to Cat 1 or more with only three being major of 3 and 4.
Hurricanes, as a rule, are a natural phenomena of Earth's physics that cool the troposphere by delivering heat into the oceans. That did not happen on a vast scale in 2011. The last time there was that kind of dynamic was 2005, the year of Katrina.
The incidence of tornadoes increase as the heat index of the troposphere increases. It is a simple relationship between tropospheric heat, available water vapor, hurricanes and tornadoes. Tornadoes result because of the heat and hurricanes take the heat away from tornado occurrences. Therefore, if there is a weak hurricane season the incidence of tornadoes increases. That has become all the more evident as we witness this Climate Crisis.
When Earth's troposphere was healthy, the incidence of tornadoes would be blunted by hurricanes. However, with water vapor moving up in the troposphere rather than on the surface of Earth as witnessed by changing 'mass balances' of glaciers and weather phenomena in the upper elevations, that means there is less water vapor AVAILABLE for hurricanes to harness and develop to remove the heat from the troposphere.
The higher incidence and year long occurrences of tornadoes is unnatural. Earth's troposphere is out of balance and becoming more dangerous every year that goes by.
The higher incidence and year long occurrences of tornadoes is unnatural. Earth's troposphere is out of balance and becoming more dangerous every year that goes by.
