Eric Flescher
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CNN had an article on
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/05/28/tornado.year/index.html
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This report says that while there are a record of tornadoes, whether these included multiple accounts of same stormed have not been recognized yet.
"And they say there are no easy answers to why one year gets more tornadoes than another.
A partial answer could be the La Nina weather phenomenon. La Nina refers to cooling in the Pacific that occurs every three to five years -- the flip side of El Nino, in which the Pacific gets warmer. The Earth has been in a La Nina period since last summer.
La Nina provides a good environment for the development of severe storms, Carbin said, but there's no way to prove scientifically that that means more tornadoes -- especially because even big tornadoes are so tiny in scale compared to warming of a massive section of ocean.
Global warming doesn't provide an easy explanation either. Because of the enormous complexity of weather systems, scientists can't decide with any certainty whether a warming planet will mean more tornadoes, or fewer. Carbin says by late June, tornado activity will start to slow down, although violent tornadoes are still possible at any time of year. "
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/05/28/tornado.year/index.html
This article included
This report says that while there are a record of tornadoes, whether these included multiple accounts of same stormed have not been recognized yet.
"And they say there are no easy answers to why one year gets more tornadoes than another.
A partial answer could be the La Nina weather phenomenon. La Nina refers to cooling in the Pacific that occurs every three to five years -- the flip side of El Nino, in which the Pacific gets warmer. The Earth has been in a La Nina period since last summer.
La Nina provides a good environment for the development of severe storms, Carbin said, but there's no way to prove scientifically that that means more tornadoes -- especially because even big tornadoes are so tiny in scale compared to warming of a massive section of ocean.
Global warming doesn't provide an easy explanation either. Because of the enormous complexity of weather systems, scientists can't decide with any certainty whether a warming planet will mean more tornadoes, or fewer. Carbin says by late June, tornado activity will start to slow down, although violent tornadoes are still possible at any time of year. "
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