Why is there a tornado outbreak in WINTER! Someone give me the scientific reason why the temperature is good enough for a tornado?
http://www.ustornadoes.com/2017/01/05/the-largest-tornado-outbreaks-of-2017/
>>8623567
It's not uncommon.
t. oklahoman
>>8623572
I wouldn't live in Oklahoma unless my house was underground to be honest.
>>8623567
http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/storms/tornado.htm
>>8623588
I know how a tornado works. I am asking why those conditions are existing earlier than usual.
>>8623608
Tornado's are more common in the Southeast during the winter, even more than during the summer in the Southeast. I know you're pushing for some climate change reasoning here, but it is incorrect to show that one day of warming is proof for anthropogenic climate change.
The reasoning comes down to windshear. Windshear is nearly absent in the southeast during the summer, because most of the extra tropical cyclones that produce windshear are pushed further to the north during the summer. Extra tropical cyclones tend to follow temperature gradients.
These temperature gradients begin to exist across the southeast during the winter, therefore, they are more likely to see tornadoes during the winter months rather than the dead of summer. Please go to pol if you want to argue climate change with retards.
>>8623650
This. You can watch tornado season shift northwest from the southeast in late winter early spring, peaking in intensity over oklahoma during mid spring, then moving northeast to the midwest in the summer. It's the same every year.
>>8623583
Yeah. Or at least a safe room or underground shelter.
I don't have either. I'm on edge all spring.