Increasing tornado outbreaks: Is climate change responsible?
Thursday, December 1, 2016 - 18:01
in Earth & Climate
In a new study, researchers looked at increasing trends in the severity of tornado outbreaks where they measured severity by the number of tornadoes per outbreak. They found that these trends are increasing fastest for the most extreme outbreaks. While they saw changes in meteorological quantities that are consistent with these upward trends, the meteorological trends were not the ones expected under climate change.