Sentences with phrase «years tornado outbreak»

There are some natural calamities that are difficult to mediate such as this years tornado outbreak.

Not exact matches

Better understanding of how climate affects tornado activity can help to predict tornado activity in the short - term, a month, or even a year in advance, and would be a major aid to insurance and reinsurance companies in assessing the risks posed by outbreaks.

This year's early March tornado outbreak was significant for a number of reasons, according to Jake Crouch, a climatologist with the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), and co-author of a new State of the Climate report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released today (April 9).

The researchers estimated that the number of tornadoes in the most extreme outbreak in a five - year interval doubled over the last half - century.

As with most years, there were several large and destructive tornado and severe weather outbreaks during 2015.

In mid-November an outbreak spawned an estimated 47 tornadoes across the western Great Plains, which was unusual for that late in the year in the region.

The deadliest tornado outbreaks of the year occurred in late December, with strong tornadoes striking across the South, including across the Dallas, Texas metro area.

For the third year in a row, tornado season has gotten off to a slow start, as indicated in the graphic below That's a big contrast to the active 2011 season — the second highest on record with 1,691 twisters reported, including a single outbreak that killed 316 people.

The kind of framing used by McKibben in the Daily Beast also came up during the astounding tornado outbreaks earlier this year, as Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University told ThinkProgress that «climate change is present in every single meteorological event.»

Really big tornado outbreaks happen at intervals of roughly 20 - 40 years or so.

Rates have risen in the state by as much as eight or nine percent this year; however, those rates were already on the rise before the April 27 tornado outbreak that devastated Montgomery.

It wasn't even rare: outbreaks of forty or more tornadoes had occurred seven times in the past ten years.

The past two years have seen major tornado outbreaks, severe impact on the northeast from tropical storms, and a devastating drought stateside.

Many comparisons are being made with this year's tornado outbreak and that of another strong La Nina year, 1974.

While the Granite State is not the most likely candidate for a tornado outbreak, New Hampshire does experience one or two of these storms per year.