Sentences with phrase «in tornado hot»

Here are two invaluable documents for communities in tornado hot zones:

The vulnerability is almost entirely the result of fast - paced, cost - cutting development patterns in tornado hot zones, and even if there were a greenhouse - tornado connection, actions that constrain greenhouse - gas emissions, while wise in the long run, would not have a substantial influence on climate patterns for decades because of inertia in the climate system.

But for the millions of Americans living involuntarily in flimsy housing in the tornado hot zone, the imperative is to learn the location of the nearest strong structure or shelter and to heed warnings when, as was the case last week, forecasters point to extraordinary danger.

Not exact matches

Also set rather far away from the central hub of the biennial, KW (Kunst Werke), are the strangely perverse and claustrophobic videos of George Kuchar, which are presented in a similarly perverse and claustrophobic manner (22 video monitors in one hot, stuffy room)-- a good portion of which depict Kuchar holed - up in his motel room in Oklahoma fretting about the weather outside and the possibility of a tornado touching down.

Here's more recent coverage of the factors that lead to deadly outcomes in America's tornado hot zones.

The challenges in maintaining vigilance and responsiveness in America's tornado hot zones can best be understood by reviewing the sequence of National Weather Service storm prediction updates below.

A growing number of school districts in tornado or hurricane hot spots, many with grants from FEMA, have chosen this option.

They reveal the persistent gaps in understanding of the mix of atmospheric conditions in America's tornado hot zones that can transform a stormy, turbulent day into a catastrophic outbreak of funnel clouds.

But it's worth beginning a conversation about ways to live safer in such hazard zones given that this storm season is just getting under way and that big regions of America's tornado hot zone have deep vulnerability resulting from runaway growth and a human tendency to discount threats that have a low probability but disastrous potential.

While there's evidence that increasing greenhouse heating of the planet is exacerbating hot spells and extreme downpours, and may be related to hurricane intensity (but not frequency), a combination of imprecise records and deep complexity in the mix of forces that generate killer tornadoes has clouded any link to global warming.

[3:32 p.m. Updated Roger Pielke, Jr., drew my attention to an important recent post by Bill Hooke, the director of the American Meteorological Society's policy program, on the steady rise in vulnerability in America's tornado hot zone.

Read Kim Severson's story, datelined Atlanta, for more on the scramble in America's tornado hot zones to build more such structures.

Every extreme event... including tropical depressions that hit New England, tornado clusters in the south and hot summers in Texas... became evidence.

Weather conditions in the Deep South reach a certain point each year, creating the perfect blend of hot and cool for a tornado to develop.