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I've been thinking a lot about how the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island effect of the sprawl of c
by newsclues 3y ago
I've been thinking a lot about how the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island effect of the sprawl of cities including the eastern seaboard of America could perhaps be effecting climate change.
The idea occurred to me after recently watching Twister and thinking why aren't we seeing more of these storms that I remember as a child were more frequent in the news.
- addisonl 3y ago> why aren't we seeing more of these storms that I remember as a child were more frequent in the news https://www.climate.gov/maps-data/dataset/monthly-and-annual-numbers-tornadoes-graphs-and-maps https://www.climate.gov/maps-data/dataset/monthly-and-annual... Number of tornados per year has been increasing, on average. Just because you aren't paying attention doesn't mean it's not happening.
- newsclues 3y agoPretty sure there have been changes in the technology to record (and more accurately) more events. Given that classification is therefore perhaps not consistent, lets see the numbers of big tornados... https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/an-historical-look-at-f5-ef5-tornadoes https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/an-historical-look-at-f5-e...