Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Tornadoes strike with increasing ferocity


Connor Fitzgerald
Staff Writer

Families are suffering throughout the United States as 500 tornadoes have been reported in 30-day period going into the month of June. A new record has been set of 12 consecutive days with at least eight tornado reports throughout the United States. These tornadoes are becoming such a normality because of the climate change problem that the U.S. faces. So many tornadoes are occurring because of the high pressured air over the mid-east of the United States which is pulling in warm air from the Gulf of Mexico.
    These powerful tornadoes are ripping apart houses and injuring loved ones from states like Texas to states like Pennsylvania and New Jersey on the east coast.
      Seven or more people have been killed in just a week span with many injuries. The major damage was in the middle region of the United States, strongly damaging Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois. Northeastern states such as Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey experienced severe winds, rain, floods, thunder, and lightening for days on end.
    Scientists state that tornadoes are nearly impossible to track because of climate change. Although they are harder to track than they were in previous years, researchers have noticed a pattern with the occurrence of tornadoes in a certain period of time. They found that tornadoes are increasingly clustered in short periods of time.
    Around 40 deaths have been blamed so far throughout the year of 2019. This is the highest the death count has been from tornadoes since 2014.