Yesterday's round of tornados - Democratic Underground

phantom power

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Fri Jan-11-08 09:59 AM
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Yesterday's round of tornados

Note the touchdown in Vancouver.

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depakid

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Fri Jan-11-08 11:03 AM
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1. Tornados do occur west of the Cascades from time to time

generally late fall through the winter months.

Been pretty nasty there this rainy season, from all accounts. On the other hand, better that than drought....

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phantom power

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Fri Jan-11-08 11:10 AM
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2. none of these january tornados is a historical first.

The consistent story I'm reading is "last time it was so bad, was 50 years ago."

I'm interested that we've now had two good-sized outbreaks in a week. I don't know if that counts as unusual or not. I guess if you chalk it all up as one event, the conclusion could be "well, it happens every 50 years or so."

I haven't seen any climatologists weigh in on the subject. Maybe they won't, as single events are outside their purview.

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depakid

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Fri Jan-11-08 11:31 AM
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3. Actually, there have been several in the past 15-20 years

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/pqr/paststorms/tornado.php

My recollection is that there were another couple of occurences that were suspected to have been twisters in the 00's.

Even so- the winter storms have been stronger and more frequent the past several winters. Whether that's a cyclical thing- or an emerging trend, I haven't heard anyone speculate about.

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