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.

    • TubeTalkerX@kbin.social
      32·
      8 months ago

      Now now let’s not rush to conclusions here.

      We’ll give it another 20 years of doing the same old same and see where we are then, alright?

      Now, let’s all get in my F350 and drive into town for some ice cream!

      • Lath@kbin.earth
        15·
        8 months ago

        Hell no! We all got our own! Let’s race! Last one there has tiny feet!