NCAR WRF water vapour forecast for midnight last night.
Once again, the pattern of cold dry air in the west colliding with warm humid air in the east has proven deadly. And it isn’t going to get better any time soon. The forecast for tomorrow afternoon looks just as bad.
It’s the same pattern we have been in all Spring. The frontal boundary would probably not be as sharp and that far south this late if global warming were the cause. But those factors won’t mitigate the alarmist shrieking.
Wow! And its rocking through again……. I’m doing my best REO speedwagon impersonation! (Riding the storm out for those slow on the uptake.) No tornadoes reported yet, but hail and winds in excess of 60mph.
Joplin (about 45 min away from me) got waxed. Body count is 89 and rising.
If the death toll in Joplin reaches >115, it will be in the top 10 deadliest tornadoes in all time, none of which have occurred since 1953
http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/49984/wild-weather-leaves-trail-of-d.asp
My brother had his family in Joplin to watch a cousin graduate. A closet saved them, but they had to crawl out of the rubble that once was my cousin’s home.
Sorry to hear that. But I’m glad they are ok.
My point in the comment is that worse tornadoes happened in the past.
Yes, they fared much better than many others. Yes, this year seems to be a throwback to years gone by. The more things change, the more things remain the same.
James,
Still looks pretty threatening in southern Missouri today.
It seems odd that we had no top ten tornadoes for 58 years. Shows the quirky nature of weather. We are still a long way from the 1925 tornado that killed 700, the Carolina tornadoes that killed 500+ in 1884 and the tornadoes of 1936 that killed 450+ over a two day period.
Yeh, it would be nice if the weather cooperated for a minute and let those poop people clean up.
Here’s an interesting u-tube offering. One of the places hardest hit by the tornado in Joplin was one of their hospitals. The weather channel did a video on the devastation and someone else, using google maps did a before and after comparison on one of the pans of the camera man…….take a look.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsPuB4ERgUA&w=640&h=390]
I know it is “NCAR WRF water vapour” but a legend (scale) would be nice . . .