(December 15, 2021 at 3:10 pm)Jehanne Wrote: I haved lived in Iowa all my life, having been born and raised here. This afternoon's forecast is for high winds with tornados. I have no memory in my 50+ years here of tornados in December.
My wife and I are leaving here shortly to get ice cream.
Lets not point out climate volatility caused by burning fossil fuels. The right wing won't be able to scare their base.
The west coast went from high heat and wild fires, to heavy rain and mudslides. The middle of the country is above average, while the east coast is average to below average. One cannot look at one day, or one week to know the averages are still trending to the earth getting warmer. Even records of "lake effect snow" around the great lakes, is a result of our polar ice caps melting, on top of the oceans getting warmer.
My entire life, I have noticed the difference between the swings between overnight temps vs daytime temps, and how much longer our winters were growing up. Climate Volatility is very real.
To say this outbreak of 30 tornados in December is rare, is misleading. It does not change that extremes like this are on the increase because of what humans are doing to our atmosphere.
