The recent increase in tornadoes was caused by the strong El Niño winter, according to a weather expert at the University of Colorado.
Over 100 tornadoes have swept through the central and southern U.S. in just one week and an expert has an explanation for the increase.Dozens of homes were destroyed in the storms in areas including Oklahoma, Nebraska and Iowa. One recent tornado in Oklahoma caused the deaths of at least four people, while hundreds of others were injured.
Climate change could also be a factor. Previous studies have found that a warming climate is exacerbating the conditions ideal for extreme storms. However, Winters said that there are still 'a lot of uncertainties' on how it impacts tornadoes.Tornadoes, in general, are hard to predict and hard to study. Winters said that this is mainly because climate models do not have 'fine enough resolution to simulate a tornado.
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