The scale of Sunday’s deadly storms became clearer this morning: Six people dead in Illinois, hundreds of homes flattened and splintered, 81 tornadoes sighted through the Midwest, 358 reports of damaging winds, 40 reports of large hail.
Since 1986, there have been 194 tornado warnings issued in the month of November in Illinois: More than half of them, 101, were issued Sunday, according to the Chicago Weather Center.
As crews fanned out from the National Weather Service to assess the storm’s impact, WGN-TV meteorologist Tom Skilling said it may go down as one of the most powerful to hit the region in decades.
“It appears the storm may have produced the most powerful Illinois November tornado on record outside of St. Louis (and possibly elsewhere) and may be one of the four most intense Great Lakes storms of the past five decades,” he said.
Hardest hit was Washington, a town of 15,000 people east of Peoria hit by an EF-4 tornado packing winds of 170 to 190 mph. Whole blocks were leveled, prompting the Illinois National Guard to send a 10-person firefighting and search and rescue team. Officials were still trying to determine the extent of injuries Sunday evening, but at least one death was reported and nearly 80 people injured.
Is it my imagination? Let’s see, killer tornadoes last spring in Oklahoma. Sandy last October. 5 Cat 5 typhoons to hit the Philippines in the past several years. Now 80+ tornadoes ravage the Midwest on Sunday, Some of those tornadoes were F4’s which simply flattened the areas where they struck. Why are we getting so many deadly, huge, powerful storms?
Some screaming leftist communists might suggest that it is due to climate change and that the earth is getting hotter. Some of the earth heating is due to trapped carbon dioxide that creates a greenhouse effect, preventing the gas from escaping our atmosphere. The good, sensible patriot denier would tell us it is all because of sun cycles and that there really aren’t more storms.
Hmmmmm…that does give me pause to think…..I dunno…I saw those melting glaciers in Glacier National Park.
Stop being paranoid, the plethora of insane deadly storms is all a conspiracy theory, they don’t really exist and Neil Armstrong did NOT walk on the moon either!
That was an NBC hoax, that moonlanding.
It’s a liberal plot. No,wait, SCIENCE is a liberal plot.
Watch the fish.
“Fish are very sensitive to temperatures, and when the temperatures warm because of climate change, the fish will move away. And some of the species – those that can’t swim that far – may locally go extinct,” said William Cheung, lead author of the study.
The study, conducted by the Sea Around Us project at the University of British Columbia, is the first to look at how climate change will affect food supplies offshore. It is published in the journal, Global Change Biology.
Global warming is man made, no doubt about it