While many climate alarmists still try to tell us that global warming will increase tornadoes, we are in the middle of a tornado drought, and well below normal. Normally we’d see 1221 tornadoes in the USA, so far for 2013, only 716 have been reported.
![ptorngraph[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/ptorngraph1.png?quality=75)
The map of the USA shows the distribution:
So far, we are about 200 tornadoes below this time last year, and last year was also a low event year.
![torngraph-big[3]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/torngraph-big3.png?quality=75)
When looking historically at where we are, we find that 2013 has slipped below the historical minimum, setting a new record for the ~60 years in the tornado database.
![torgraph-big[3]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/torgraph-big3.png?quality=75)
What’s more, we are well past the time of peak tornado activity, which typically occurs in spring, when we have the most collisions between warm and cold air masses over the USA. While we could certainly see a rebound, it is statistically unlikely.
![tor_month[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/tor_month1.png?quality=75)
Sources: NOAA Storm Prediction Center
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/online/monthly/newm.html
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/
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That’s terrible news. See, that’s climate change. They should be staying the same. We’re doomed.
This made Drudge, with thanks to Marc Morano.
In other news, sharknado sightings are down…
What’s even more impressive than getting a “record” low with “record” levels of C02 in the atmosphere is doing it now when we have bigger populations and better technology to observe a greater percentage of such extremely local events as tornadoes than we used to.
Must be all that global warm…..er, climate cha…..er……., Al Gore will think of something.
Here’s the surprising news. We have record low tornadoes and record low July temps. Want to know that cause? Right, global warming. You see, no matter the effect, global warming is the cause because it is the models which are correct, not the actual measurable facts on the ground.
AGW sounds more and more like religion every day.
…..tornados up its global warming….tornados down its global warming….!
Yeah, I saw this on the evening news on all of the MSM stations… said no one ever.
It’s the 9th highest tornado count since 2005. 🙂
There may not be many, but each is because of global warming. There would have been none without global warming. /
Of course there is “climate change”. We just have no impact on it. I mean, the Earth was just recently almost completely covered in ice and warmed from that without an SUV in sight. How does the Left explain that?
It’s because Algore has not been out speaking much lately. When he gets back on the lecture circuit, he will produce enough hot air to bring this tornado deficit right back into balance.
The 4th chart (Percentile Ranks) are on the Reference Pages: Climatic Phenomena: Extreme Weather, but it is hard to find. You have to know to look for it. The 3rd chart, which compares an anual view, series by recent year, should also be added to the page.
May I suggest a separate category in the “Reference Pages: Updated Daily”
It would serve as a index page to all charts with volitile content. That way, the Tornado Trend chart updated daily will not be below the Hurricane charts which are updated yearly.
Looks like NOAA is already padding the numbers. In Colo. they show 2 west of the Continental Divide. Tornado’s in this area rarely touch down and are never more than F1. Dust devils may be a better term.
Roy Spencer had the perfect antidote for Al Gore’s fairytales.
So we are shattering records of mild climate. Something gone wrong…..more taxes and less liberty can solve this issue.
Dust Devils suck also. I got hit by one on a clear hot day that was about 200 feet across. 1st there was a slight lifting action followed by my ears popping like when lifting off the ground in an airplane. Then the lifting thing again followed by a massive headache. What can be done about this churning of the atmosphere?
I do love the outdoors. Also got ran over by an F2 here in Nebraska. No big deal, I was inside a concrete bunker designed to throw bluerock out the front and it easily protected us from the debris floating around outside.
I wish people would better prepare for the events that happen where they live rather than try to stop it from happening. You can’t stop nature from happening. Deal with it.
I do like the fact that more false prophecies are getting ousted.
The climate warming snake oil salesmen are doing everything they can to show that global warming is affecting the planet but, the actual facts dispute their claims. They claim to persent video eveidence that the north pole isce cap is melting faster than normal only to have to pull back after it was released that their camera has floated several hundred miles out to sea so that it was capturing oppen sea wwater and ton polar ice. In addition, the Antartic ice cap is actually grwoing larger at a fast rate.
Global warming threatens tornadoes! Tornadoes have now been placed on the endangered species list just below polar bears. I can’t believe the inhumanity of it all! We need cap and trade now before it’s too late! Our grandchildren may never see another tornado!
It’s global warming I tell you and it’s going to get much worse. Can you imagine the chaos if we had a season without hurricanes? We need to quickly form an expensive task force to figure out if we can restart the tornadoes before more events like this spread. I would be willing to accept the paltry sum of 10 million a year over the next 10 years to head up a team that can complete an impact study of how goldfish are the root cause of the current global crisis.
@Alabama Mike “Children just aren’t going to know what a tornado is…”
Perhaps I am missing something but it seems to me that the data showing average tornadoes per month should add up to the average annual tornadoes for the period covered. At 265 it is not even in the same universe. Can someone explain what I am misunderstanding?
@Michael Markowitz
Where are you getting the 265 number from?
Maybe Wile E. Coyote ran out of Acme Instant Tornado pellets!
Bob says:
August 19, 2013 at 9:50 am
“…their camera has floated several hundred miles out to sea so that it was capturing oppen sea wwater and ton polar ice…”
Multiple typos notwithstanding, let’s stay with the facts here: The camera was already “out to sea”- the Arctic Sea. And it didn’t photograph “open sea water.” It was a melt pond on top of the ice, which subsequently re-froze.
To make a respectable argument- or criticism- it’s important to have the facts straight.
Michael Markowitz: The climatology graph is only for Northern Indiana. Not sure why it’s posted here. http://www.crh.noaa.gov/iwx/?n=svrwxclimo