Tornadoes “Ganging Up” in the U.S.

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Over the last several years, the U.S. has not experienced an overall increase in tornadoes. Instead more twisters are grouping together, according to decades’ worth of information gathered by the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.) If the trend continues the U.S. could see less tornadoes each year, but more grouped tornadoes that can do real damage.
Scientists are concerned that the warmer climate might affect the frequency or the intensity of the twisters that plague the most of the U.S. But it has not been clear how those will be obvious. “We know that tornadoes form when there is lots of energy available for thunderstorms and when there is lots of wind shear,” stated NOAA tornado researcher Harold Brooks.
Wind shear is the change of the winds speed or direction. Global warming is increasing the energy for storms to form, but it also could decrease wind shear reported smithsonianmag.com.
“In effect, there is a low probability of a day having a tornado, but if a day does have a tornado, there is a much higher chance of having many tornadoes,” reporter the NOAA researchers .
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Sophia Bouyakzan • Nov 19, 2014 at 1:32 am
You are a great writer Ashley and this was a great topic to write about because I learned so much from this article!
JIllian Grimes • Nov 18, 2014 at 3:03 pm
I learned alot about tornadoes and how dangerous they can be. Great job Ashley Ko!!
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Kalina Kazimierski • Nov 15, 2014 at 5:05 pm
I learned many things about tornadoes from this article. Great job!
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cameron elder • Nov 14, 2014 at 11:26 am
when i was in PA over the summer there whas a bige storm and we where driving back to my uncls house then we where driving though a town and the huracain sirain whent off it scared me half to death this article has some great facks
Maddie Schmidt • Nov 14, 2014 at 10:12 am
Tornadoes “Ganging Up in the US is a really intresting. I love learning about that kind of stuff. Now I kmow more facts about tornadoes.