Reply #28: There were 113 tornadoes on Sunday, according to preliminary reports

[hatrack]

In one day, we got about one-third of all the tornadoes that are normally reported nationally for an entire year.

Three times last summer we had tropical storms turn into Cat-5 hurricanes in 30 hours or less - and one of those storms was the strongest ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere.

Am I positing a direct correlation between these events and the topic of the original story posted here? No, because that kind of one-to-one causality is too simplistic.

However, I will be so bold as to advance the fairly unremarkable idea that things are really and truly meteorologically fucked up thanks to the general climate breakdown trends we've already seen to date.

I will also take a stab at saying that we are going to be seeing many more of these kinds of remarkable events in the very near future - for instance, late this summer and into the fall in the Gulf of Mexico.

And if you read this story, please vote it up.