I currently reside in Northeast Columbia in South Carolina and To be honest I really don’t know when does the tornado season start officially. Back in 2008 we had a Tornado Outbreak that occurred on the mid week of March 15th, We had a Tornado Warning and a Tornado Outbreak a day after the Atlanta Tornado Incident. I strangely like severe weather like Heavy Snow & Blizzard Conditions, Tornadoes , Severe Thunderstorms, Hurricanes and etc. It is just so fun to track weather and storms when they appear to occur in your area. So when does the official tornado season starts for the southeastern states and south carolina ? What would Be the best month for me to see severe thunderstorms and severe weather ? I would really like to know really soon because I’m planning to make a youtube channel of videos of thunderstorms.

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That’s what’s really happening. It’s the INSTABILITY of the weather that is the hallmark of climate change. Look at the storms that have hit the US this winter. A tornado in Washington state, a serious drought in the S.E.,US, wild swings in temps ,floods and fires in California. It’s the ever widening parameters of the weather records that can reveal the extent of climate change,caused by AGW. We call everthing in Science that is a known fact,a THEORY! We don’t have a site called "Gravity",or "Relativity",where any idiot can post their ‘beliefs’ about those subjects. We need to get serious about the deadly problem of AGW!

http://www.newsweek.com/id/82363
linlyons,
weonly have one tiny little planet,why screw it up for the protection of profits for just a few?
matt,
it’s the extemes of daily weather that have increased. If each year,the high temp is broken,how hot will get before you ‘believe’ that it’s really too hot? If each year here in the N.W.,we get stronger record breaking storms . How much stronger do these storms have to get? We had a TORNADO this winter. What’s next?

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The next day, a team of Meteorologists went to evaluate the damage. They needed to classify this storm according to the Enhanced Fujita Scale:

F0 – F1 Weak
F2 – F3 Strong
F4 – F5 Violent

This scale uses damage from the storm to estimate wind speeds. From 1950 to 1994, the population of storms was classified as follows:

Weak 74%
Strong 25%
Violent 1%

So, assume that this distribution holds for the tornadoes that we see in 2009. We have some wild weather and see an all-time high of 632 tornadoes in the month of May 2009 (exceeding the current record of 543 from May of 2003). What is the expected number of tornadoes that are not violent?

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How Weather affects Agriculture
Have you ever noticed that prices on dairy, fruits and vegetables seem to skyrocket sometimes during the year? This is because of the weather changes we experience everyday. Do you ever think about how weather is affecting your food or the clothes you will buy? Weather affects where and how your food is grown and how the products grown that are used to make the clothes we wear everyday. Hello I am Mason Wilson and I am from the River Valley FFA and I am doing my speech on weather and how it affects agriculture.
Farmers need certain weather to grow their crops. They need a place where they can
have the sunlight the crop fields need and rain to help the plants grow. And there can be
many problems resulting from bad weather conditions such as droughts, storms,
tornadoes and many more. If a farmer’s field suffers from a drought the plants will
become extremely brittle and they will break very easily and the plants will eventually die from not having any water and the longer a drought the
more chance of a fire breaking out. Last year in 2009 northern California lost 272,000
acres of land because of 82 fires. By the end of 2009 there were a total of 77,315 fires

having burned 5,914,821 acres.

Rain has a lot of influence on the crops: too much rain can damage the crops, not

enough rain can make the crops dry, different crops need more or less water and if they

didn’t get them they fail to grow and we don’t get crops and the prices of what is left will

go up.

Did you know that 18 percent of Texas is under cloud-seeded skies because local

farmers and businesses want more rain? Cloud seeding is when scientists put little

particles of silver iodide in a cloud, water droplets form around them, and drop out of the

cloud as rain. It works in a lab, but there is almost no way to tell how much it works in

the outdoors. This was extremely popular until the 1970 when it was found out the US

was using this technology against the Vietnamese.

“There are basically several brands of weather modification.

Hurricane mitigation technology has been proposed but not yet attempted, like putting oil

slicks on the ocean to reduce evaporation or putting a giant gel in the ocean that sucks up

moisture from the atmosphere and adds it to the ocean.

Bill Gates has patented a hurricane modification technology which pumps cold water up

from the bottom of the ocean, because hurricanes are fuelled by warm water.

Geo engineering is the really large scale, sci-fi projects like putting 16 trillion tiny discs

in space to reflect about 2 percent of sunlight back into space.

The most popular idea is that of the so-called “man-made volcano.” It means spraying

sulfur dioxide up into the sky and that would mimic what happens when big volcanoes

erupt and sulfur dioxide acts like a thin sheet in the atmosphere that could block two to

four percent of sunlight. When big volcanoes erupt, the world cools by 2 to 4 degrees.

But this could also damage the Ozone layer and what happens if a volcano erupts after

you have sprayed sulfur dioxide? Are you then looking at a new ice age?” – Allianz.com

The high winds of a tornado will easily snap the crops and rip them right out of the ground destroying many acres of farm land. It is almost guaranteed that the prices on tomatoes, strawberries, may go up a little bit as a result of some crop loss they’ve had in Florida. The Florida orange companies haven’t fully recovered from the hurricane damage in 2004 and 2005.
Weather is both good and bad when it comes to the prices of food. If there is normal
weather all year than the prices will be lower because there will be more crops that
survived and the producers won’t have to charge more to make up for lost profit. If there
is bad weather prices will go up because the producers won’t be able to make enough
money to replace all the crops they may have lost due to the bad weather. Australia has
seen bad droughts six years running, and last year there was major flooding in Argentina.
Since both of these countries are major dairy exporters, milk and butter the prices are
much higher than they used to be. In China prices of vegetables are really high because
of really bad snowstorms. In Beijing prices of vegetables like cabbage, egg plant, and
cucumber have risen 30%. "Since Jan 3, some vegetable growers started to complain that
the plants in their green houses have withered and rotted due to the weather," said Sun
Zhigang, director of the agriculture information center in Shouguang. Prices will hopefully go down so that people can afford the food. If bad weather stays away farmers will have better crop growth and there will be a lot of products when they are ready to be sold and the prices will be low because there is enough food to go around.
As much as weather can be

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Yikes!
I live in Illinois and were just being pounded with storms.
Its crazy! I mean we had Tornado warnings Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and today. Not fun. Pretty scary too.

WHATS IT LIKE WHERE YOU LIVE?

Poll- California or New York?

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I’m terrified of storms and tornadoes, and living in TN tornadoes can happen anytime really. My house doesn’t have a basement so we always go in our bedroom closet or interior hallway, which still doesnt leave me feeling safe. When your area is under a warning do you take it seriously or do you keep on making dinner or whatever? I panic. LOL. I know when my son gets older I will have to learn to stay calm so he doesnt get scared but I don’t know how I’ll ever do it.

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This email was going around at my dads work, but everyone i talked to has heard nothing about it.. Just think its kind of interesting if it is true….

We are about to get hit with what may be the strongest storm system in known California history starting Sunday night. If you want full details, you can read the warning below. I’ll give you the summary version of several reports here.
The jet stream that is going to hit Southern California is as powerful as has ever been recorded on this planet before, over 230 mph. The jet is at an extremely unusually low altitude, not 30,000 to 60,000 feet, but coming as low as 8,000 feet. This jet will be traveling over the unusually warm El Nino waters of the eastern pacific, and will be carrying freakish amounts of energy and moisture. A huge series of storms is going to slam into Los Angeles and the surrounding areas just one after another for day after day for up to two weeks.
The initial storms will be very cold, with snow levels as low as 3,000 feet. Heavy rain and snow will be hitting California from San Diego to Eureka . Next week, the driest places will see at least 3 inches of rain, the Los Angeles basin and northern parts of the county and Ventura will see 6 to 10 inches. The wettest areas and cells within the system will hit with up to 20 inches of rain. Snowfall in the Sierras will be measured in the TENS of feet. Powerful winds will be associated with this storm–like a powerful Santa Ana but blowing in the opposite direction, west to east. Gusts up to 80 mph are forecast.
But it gets worse. For the first time that I’m aware of, ALL of the various models are in agreement about the second week of the storm. Normally, beyond a week, the models diverge. But due to the extreme strength of the weather producing factors, this time all of the models produce the same results for the 8-14 day period.
For the week of the 24th, we will be hit with a powerful and WARM series of storms, as strong as any we’ve seen. This heavy warm rainfall will fall onto the newly laid snowpack and what will be totally saturated ground, especially in the burn areas of LA and will produce tremendous melting and runoff, and the potential for record flooding.
Due to the low altitude of the jet stream, 200+ mph winds will slam directly into the Sierras, producing tornado strength winds over a 200 mile wide front. DON’T head to Mammoth for skiing when you hear about the huge snow fall in the first week(25th-31st).(January 2010)
We have a friend who is a Navy weather forecaster and he told us that the military is moving assets east out of the way ahead of this storm. Planes and helicopters are migrating out of the coastal bases and into the interior bases of Arizona and Nevada . They’re taking this very seriously.
This may sound alarmist, but websites I check related to weather modeling are using the word "Biblical" for this system. If you can work from home or commute by train, please plan on doing so.

Now, this makes sence, but has anyone heard about this? or any comments?

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ds, california fires, recent midwest tornadoes/storms, all the lives ending in a usless war, Katrina, Gas prices just keep doubling each season, Ice sheets keep melting and causing the water to rise, and the list goes on and on and on…

Do you think the world will really end in 2012? I think it will if all this stuff continues.

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really scared of storms

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Is there any chances of a full blown or spawned tornado in the area of orange county tomorrow ? To be honest, i am scared sh*t less. I haven’t experienced a tornado before. On the news it doesn’t really clarify anything; except for possible or minimal storms . I live in Costa Mesa & what about Westminster or Santa Ana. Tomorrow’s date is January 21, 2010.

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What is the average number of tornadoes that occur each year?

What causes more deaths, tornadoes or tropical revolvoing storms?

What has a greater economic cost?

What one causes the most damage to the environment?

Need to know this for my geography exam that i have tomorrow, please help. If you could give figures or a description i would be very thankfull, can’t find the information anywhere.

Thanks x

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I have hundreds to share…but I’ll share my first. I was 7 years old and in the middle of a tornado warning. The sirens had gone off earlier…I was terrified of storms. I reached up to my window sill to grab the bible I had just recieved at church and opened it to read and take my mind off the storm…First page I opened to was a picture of Jesus calming the storm…the story on the facing page. This little miracle carried me through many years before I grew and began to question again.
wow, all such great stories. I think I have found a question I could ask again and again and never get tired of hearing the answeres…maybe I will ask again another day.

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In video you see storm chasers cheering and HAPPY when a tornado forms…then later in the video you see all the destruction and the people who’s lives have been forever changed.
Does it sometimes bother you that these storm chasers are cheering for something to happen in which people are injured and sometimes killed?

I know they do it to learn about storms and protect people, but i cannot help but be a bit annoyed at their joy over someone elses tragedy.
Thor i mean this w/great affection…you’re a goober!! :p

football shmootball!

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I’m considering buying some beachfront property in the mid-atlantic region. It certainly seems that there is a definite trend toward more hurricane activity. Beach erosion alone would be a major concern. Its been our dream to own a modest home on the beach. It would be our only home. I wonder if I wouldn’t be taking a higher risk considering the evidence that the storms are escalating in number and strength. Any comments? Thanks.

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Please go to my other question at: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ale12qDhEsX_yOp2lQrioAHsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20080606093458AAweEsk

I dont think these people are treating their dog right, hitting him and leaving him in the storms (really bad ones, with tornados reported not far away! Help me! Please go to my other question too! Thanks!

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He was blamed for the killing of thousands of poor black people in New Orleans, how long before the media blames him for the loss of homes for the poor white trash (PWT’s) who were victims of bad storms over the weekend?

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I was watching "Lost" last night on ABC and the Tornado Watch thing came up saying that all counties were under a tornado watch until 9p.m. I have a weather radio but it never went off, there were no storms and I didn’t get an e-mail about it. Did ABC just make a mistake or were we actually under a "Tornado Watch"?

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I am trying to find people and groups in or near San Marcos, TX who are into severe weather or know a thing or 2 about storm chasing. I have just started learning about the mechanics of storms, how tornadoes form and where to position yourself in the storm as a start to my storm chasing hobby. Any helpful information on beginning your storm chasing hobby or where to go and look for information on storm chasing is greatly appreciated! I have already signed up for STORMTRACK and I have SKYWARN bookmarked.

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I’m a fanatic of supercell thunderstorms and tornadoes, it’s like an thing that i am hooked onto. I’ve started having the hobbies of watching tornadoes back when i first got my 1st computer when i was 12 years old, we had dial up back then but i used to watch storm chaser’s tornado videos like all day. I’m 19 years old right and i have a laptop and i keep a bunch of photos and videos that i shot of thunderstorms when it rolled through my town and i would upload it to youtube for sharing, i have dsl now. But would any wife would let their husband have this kind of hobby ? Sometimes during a severe thunderstorm warning or tornado watch i would go outside and snap photos of the clouds before it rained. I don’t know if any wives ever accept this kind of hobby. Would an hobby of something like this will ever get into a way of a relationship ? I consider myself as one of these guys who dedicate their lives photographing storms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfUONDwZ8oI

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these places that are in tornado alley should be built to a higher standard… a start would be to build them of reniforced concrete not wood. 95 percent of the town was leveled because of a f5 twister.. thank god that not many people died but more has to be done ..like shelters for the people.. real shelters made just for that reason. god bless them all.
funny but true tom haha.. its like people who build there summer houses on fire island, the sand gets washed away and they have to call the army core of enginners to put more sand in the beachs at taxpayer cost, its not right
love you patrick and thank you for being there for us and me..but maybe the goverment can help
yeah but richard i know .. but what happens when the insurance companys gotta pay these people when storms come and blow away there homes.. we all pay.lets fix the problem for once and for all.
yeah gub but some thing has to be done to help these poor people.

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CNN broke news that 120 Boyscouts and Supervisors took brunt of a f-2/f-3 tornado which caused at least 4-casualties and dozens of traumatic injuries tonight.

The camp had some buildings, and the scouts were camping out in tents, in the rural setting.

Should the buildings that were destroyed by the tornados have been better built for tornados?
Stackausaurus;

Yes, I know how much a tornado-proof camp-sized building/cabin costs, about 50,000-85,000 dollars, a little less than what the buildings at the Boyscout Camp that were destoyed cost to build.

As for timing, you are WAY OFF BASE!! There is no better timing to show what a new building frame reinforcing system improves against!!

Those fatalaties are not necessary, and you should be advocating for safer buildings, so that you don’t have to suffer along with the Scouts and their Families!!

Your comments are typical for those who want to rebuild after disasters, regardless of the harm to human life is done!! Profit, profit, profit, oh, there are peolpe involved, so sorry, profit, profit, profit…

That how you see that situation, Stack…?

You are way out of line, making assumptions you know nothing about, and sending the wrong messages to those Scouts, their Fa,ilies, the Doctors, Responders, Red Cross, you name it!! You related to a Building Contractor?
J.D, Ken E;

Hold your thoughts about non-tornado resilient houses, structures, and commercial buildings!

A new method of building/structure frame reinforcing is about to start receiving third-party accreditations, and have already proven out above hurricane force-winds capable, and most tornado/earthquake-resilient, also!!

I agree that even these systems will have damages from winds and seismic forces, but that is still a whole lot better than having fatalities added to the storms/quakes.

This new method of reinforcing adds flexure, elasticity, and tension-resistance to the rigid-assembled compression-resistant frames, giving the building/structure all of the required structural elements to be able to survive over 120mph winds, and be resilient upward to nearly 200mph winds. These systems are called Structural Strap-Nets, and lets the Builders go to stronger lightweight dual-frames, which also cost a little less to construct than current buildings/structures.

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i live in oklahoma and were gonna have storms all next week and im freeked out of dying by a tornado what are the chances of that.

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For the past several months, in almost every dream i have, no matter what the real focus of the dream is, it is storming outside. Or i get caught in the storm. Or there is a tornado coming and i have to find adequate shelter. These are very vivid dreams, and i can’t seem to let go of them once I wake up. Everything I’ve found on dreams say that storms represent turbulence in your life. But honestly..there is none. I love my life. And it’s not all that hectic. Can anyone help me out?

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I’m a fanatic of supercell thunderstorms and tornadoes, it’s like an thing that i am hooked onto. I’ve started having the hobbies of watching tornadoes back when i first got my 1st computer when i was 12 years old, we had dial up back then but i used to watch storm chaser’s tornado videos like all day. I’m 19 years old right and i have a laptop and i keep a bunch of photos and videos that i shot of thunderstorms when it rolled through my town and i would upload it to youtube for sharing, i have dsl now. But would any wife would let their husband have this kind of hobby ? Sometimes during a severe thunderstorm warning or tornado watch i would go outside and snap photos of the clouds before it rained. I don’t know if any wives ever accept this kind of hobby. Would an hobby of something like this will ever get into a way of a relationship ? I consider myself as one of these guys who dedicate their lives photographing storms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfUONDwZ8oI

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We are under a tornado watch today out here in Texas. I myself love severe weather, not the damages though!! Everytime it gets dark and all green looking outside I love to watch from the porch. The biggest tornado I remember is the Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak on May 3, 1999. It amazes me how much damage storms can cause. Anyway does anyone else like storms? Just wondering how weird I am! Most of you are saying weirdo!haha

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