![]() READ MORE: Explaining the forces that fueled Alabama’s deadly tornado A huge problem was that tornadoes really didn’t happen in those people’s former homes, so they didn’t know what to watch for or what to do, or even know they had to be concerned about tornadoes, said Joseph Trujillo Falcon, a NOAA social scientist who investigated the aftermath. People who fled Central and South America, Bosnia and Africa were all victims. They hit areas with large immigrant populations. Killer tornadoes in December 2021 that struck Kentucky illustrated the uniqueness of the United States. ![]() “It is a reality that regardless of where you are in the country, where you call home, you’ve likely experienced a high-impact weather event firsthand,” Spinrad said. In the Atlantic, it’s nor’easters in the winter, hurricanes in the summer and sometimes a weird combination of both, like Superstorm Sandy. In the West, it’s a drumbeat of atmospheric rivers. Look at Friday’s deadly weather, and watch out for the next week to see it in action: Dry air from the West goes up over the Rockies and crashes into warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico, and it’s all brought together along a stormy jet stream. And number two is elevated terrain to the west,” said Victor Gensini, a Northern Illinois University meteorology professor. “It really starts with kind of two things. READ MORE: How California is tackling the increasing threat of mudslides is by far the king of tornadoes and other severe storms. that is producing a lot of the severe weather,” said Susan Cutter, director of the Hazards Vulnerability and Resilience Institute at the University of South Carolina. “It’s truly a little bit … unlucky.”Ĭhina may have more people, and a large land area like the United States, but “they don’t have the same kind of clash of air masses as much as you do in the U.S. It starts with “where we are on the globe,” North Carolina state climatologist Kathie Dello said. Flash floods. Droughts. Wildfires. Blizzards. More extreme events are expected,” said Rick Spinrad, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Nature dealt the United States a bad hand, but people have made it much worse by what, where and how we build, several experts told The Associated Press. Two oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, the Rocky Mountains, jutting peninsulas like Florida, clashing storm fronts and the jet stream combine to naturally brew the nastiest of weather. getting hit by stronger, costlier, more varied and frequent extreme weather than anywhere on the planet, several experts said. Take a look back at the deadliest and most extreme weather events of 2022.The United States is Earth’s punching bag for nasty weather.īlame geography for the U.S. ![]() At the same time, flood recovery efforts continued in Australia and Pakistan, while catastrophic rainfall hit the Democratic Republic of Congo. ![]() While world leaders, delegates and negotiators met in Montreal in December for Cop15, the UN’s biodiversity conference, the UK was plunged into freezing temperatures and the US braced for storms and blizzards across central states. The UN’s aim of ensuring that global temperatures don’t increase beyond 1.5C above pre-industrial levels was renewed at Cop27, but a pledge to cause emissions to peak within three years was removed from the agreement “to the dismay of many”, said The Guardian. Atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases hit record levels last year and are continuing to increase, according to its Provisional State of the Global Climate in 2022 report. “The tell-tale signs and impacts of climate change are becoming more dramatic,” said the WMO at Cop27. Can the UK reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050?.Rishi Sunak’s plans to tackle climate change.Cop27 and Africa’s climate financing problems.
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