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Who predicted this tornado season to be record-breaking? Let's see if that comes true.
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Yuli Ban wrote: Wed Apr 13, 2022 8:32 pm Who predicted this tornado season to be record-breaking? Let's see if that comes true.
Not to toot my own horn too much...

But on the "Your 2022 predictions" thread I said:

"11. Aggressive tornado season in April-June in the US... worst since 2011..."
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Studies Find Climate Change is Driving ‘Decisive Increase’ in Violent Hurricanes
by Lina Tran
April 15, 2022

https://grist.org/extreme-weather/studi ... %ef%bf%bc/

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(Grist) In our world of warming waters, extreme Atlantic hurricane seasons are becoming more likely and much wetter. That’s according to a pair of studies published this week.

The fact that heat and moisture fuel hurricanes isn’t new, but the two studies offer fresh insights into how climate change is shaping today’s hurricanes.

“Climate change is often thought about as a long-term problem,” said Kevin Reed, an extreme weather expert at Stony Brook University and lead author of one of the studies, in a release accompanying the report in Nature Communications. “A problem for future society, for our children and grandchildren. But what we’re finding, particularly through changes in extreme weather … is that the impacts are already here.”

Reed’s study looked back to the record-breaking hurricane season in 2020. That year, the season was so active that it blasted through an entire alphabet worth of names, forcing meteorologists to pivot to Greek letters. In total, it gave rise to a record 30 named storms as well as the most storms to make landfall in the continental U.S. on record. In just two months, Hurricanes Sally, Laura, Delta, and Zeta tore through the Gulf Coast, hitting Louisiana especially hard. A year and a half later, communities are still struggling to rebuild.

Researchers recreated the 2020 hurricane season with models and found that warmer waters spurred wetter storms. Over a three-hour period, 11 percent more rain fell than what would have happened in a world without climate change. Over a three-day period, the rainfall totals were 8 percent higher.
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Heat wave breaks monthly records in India and continues to build
Source: Washington Post
For the second month in a row, temperatures in India and Pakistan are abnormally high because of a string of strong and prolonged heat waves — and now another surge is building.

Temperatures have already soared to dangerously high levels. They topped 110 degrees in the Indian capital of Delhi on Thursday and Friday, where pavement melted amid the heat, while several cities broke April records.

The Times of India reported Delhi clinched its second hottest April in 72 years Friday with an average high temperature of 104 degrees (40.2 Celsius).

The city of Nawabshah in Pakistan hit 117.5 degrees (47.5 degrees Celsius) Thursday — the hottest temperature in the Northern Hemisphere this year so far.
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Ferocious tornado strikes Andover, Kansas, causing severe damage
Source: Washington Post

By Ian Livingston
An outbreak of severe storms swept through the eastern half of Kansas and Nebraska Friday, unleashing tornadoes, destructive wind gusts and massive hail in both states.

A major tornado developed just before sunset in the eastern Wichita suburbs before entering the city of Andover, where it caused substantial damage. There were no immediate reports of injuries, but many homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) declared a state of emergency in the storm’s aftermath.

Social media footage of the twister showed a fast-moving, violent tempest shredding across Andover like a buzz saw. Among the heavily damaged structures was a YMCA where cars where flung into the building, which partially collapsed.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/ ... -outbreak/
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60 fucking Celsius! :shock:

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Drone footage reveals the destructive power of a tornado with clarity not commonly seen. :shock:

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raklian wrote: Sun May 01, 2022 4:05 am 60 fucking Celsius! :shock:

Dang if that happened here in Miami, Fl bodies would start dropping left and right. Most people here do not drink water as it is and some wear all black in the heat. Good luck with that with 60 Celsius, lol!
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New Portal Improves Forecasts of Devastating Storms in West Africa
May 3, 2022

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/951544

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(EurekAlert) An online portal developed by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) will enable forecasters in West Africa to provide communities with earlier and more reliable warnings about large storms.

Storms in the Sahel region, which can reach over 100km in size, have become more extreme since the 1980s due to global warming, with more intense rainfall.* Severe flooding during the monsoon from June to September causes human and livestock deaths, plus damages property and infrastructure, leaving thousands of people without homes and livelihoods.

State-of-the-art weather forecast models struggle to predict where new storms will hit and how strong they will be, which makes it difficult to provide warnings to people in affected areas so they can protect their property and livestock or get out of harm’s way.

National forecasting agencies in Africa can already make predictions of how storms will behave in the next couple of hours by observing current atmospheric conditions, and analysing hundreds of historical storms.

Now, thanks to a recent breakthrough by UKCEH scientists, they can make these short-term forecasts, known as ‘nowcasts’, for six hours ahead and with a higher degree of accuracy. The new research found drier soils can increase the intensity of storms when they are on the move, affecting where they travel and the amount of rainfall they produce.
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