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Tornadoes and climate change: What a warming world means for deadly twisters and the type of storms that spawn them

  • Written by John Allen, Associate Professor of Meteorology, Central Michigan University
Tornadoes and climate change: What a warming world means for deadly twisters and the type of storms that spawn themTornadoes are tough to forecast.Mike Coniglio/NOAA/NSSL

The deadly tornado outbreak that tore through communities from Arkansas to Illinois on the night of Dec. 10-11, 2021, was so unusual in its duration and strength, particularly for December, that a lot of people including the U.S. president are asking what role climate change might have played &...

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