The Wrath of Anemoi (Extreme Weather Thread)

Shurakai

So,
As most of you know there was a rather large outbreak of tornadoes in the off season that killed alot of people (at least 53) and put the number of confirmed destructive tornadoes in the US to 83 for 2008. While much of the reporting leans toward alarmist, it does bring up a subject that has become a great concern over the past decade or so: the rise in extreme and unstable weather systems.

I personally live in a very stable area, free of pretty much any kind of extreme weather besides the odd blizzard or hail storm. I cannot imagine living in an area that is prone to destructive and potentially deadly weather, especially as it becomes more so.

If the trend continues, and the worst case scenarios come to pass within the next century, will people take the hint and pack their bags? Or will we find a way to put nature in a headlock once and for all?

Elki

I slept in a fallout shelter until 4:30, and it seems that the tornado missed us.

Octoparrot

Oooh, so Mother Nature needs a favor?! Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she’s losing. Well I say, hard cheese.

We've had some pretty mild hurricane seasons the last 3(?) years. But, the idea is that global warming is going to be a mechanism for these extreme and unstable weather systems?

Shurakai

Bscly.

Warmer oceans usually equal larger and more frequent hurricanes, while also shifting larger masses of warm, damp air north. Warm, damp air + Cool, dry air = very bad things.

Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud

I would like to point out that nearly no hurricanes hit the U.S. this year.

Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud

Oh, and many of the most destructive weather events happened in the 1900-ish time period.
I'm reading Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and delving into the climate change literature.
Other books I've glanced at have a bit more empirical data, whereas Al Gore has some pictures and some pretty graphs. He also writes like a fourth grader.

BigJoeM

Octoparrot wrote: »

Oooh, so Mother Nature needs a favor?! Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she’s losing. Well I say, hard cheese.

We've had some pretty mild hurricane seasons the last 3(?) years. But, the idea is that global warming is going to be a mechanism for these extreme and unstable weather systems?

What?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Atlantic_hurricane_season

When you have record storm activity i doubt you can consider it mild.

If you are going by seasons you can't really count this year since technically hurricane season hasn't started yet.

Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud

BigJoeM wrote: »

Octoparrot wrote: »

Oooh, so Mother Nature needs a favor?! Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she’s losing. Well I say, hard cheese.

We've had some pretty mild hurricane seasons the last 3(?) years. But, the idea is that global warming is going to be a mechanism for these extreme and unstable weather systems?

What?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Atlantic_hurricane_season

When you have record storm activity i doubt you can consider it mild.

If you are going by seasons you can't really count this year since technically hurricane season hasn't started yet.

07-08, 06-07.