Randy Zipser
EF4
I ran across an article today (2026-02-13) from an environmental sustainability website called Green Matters showing results of a research study about atmospheric warming for U.S. states from 1950-2021.
Eight states did not show statistically-significant warming: AL, AR, IL, KS, MS, MO, OK, and TX. However, on the included "Warming typology" map, GA is also lumped in with this group (in dark blue shading), but no mention is made as to why it was excluded in the text. In any event, interestingly all of these states comprise some part of Dixie Alley and Tornado Alley (and extending into the Midwest).
This begs the question whether there might possibly be some correlation between climatic circulation cycles (especially the La Nina pattern) and their long-term effect upon these particular states (which are also consistently known for higher numbers of annual tornadoes over the same sampling period). Again, more research might be warranted to answer these questions...even though many readers have voiced the viewpoint in other posts that statistical long-range forecast predictions have little relevance to individual case-by-case tornado chasing decisions or actions.
Scientists find most US states are warming significantly but these 8 are the exception
Eight states did not show statistically-significant warming: AL, AR, IL, KS, MS, MO, OK, and TX. However, on the included "Warming typology" map, GA is also lumped in with this group (in dark blue shading), but no mention is made as to why it was excluded in the text. In any event, interestingly all of these states comprise some part of Dixie Alley and Tornado Alley (and extending into the Midwest).
This begs the question whether there might possibly be some correlation between climatic circulation cycles (especially the La Nina pattern) and their long-term effect upon these particular states (which are also consistently known for higher numbers of annual tornadoes over the same sampling period). Again, more research might be warranted to answer these questions...even though many readers have voiced the viewpoint in other posts that statistical long-range forecast predictions have little relevance to individual case-by-case tornado chasing decisions or actions.
Scientists find most US states are warming significantly but these 8 are the exception
