Thunderstorms are moving East with climate change

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By century's end, thunderstorms over the Plains states will be fewer, while those in the eastern states will become more common as climate change affects weather

This, says Brooks, is a glimpse of the future. “People live where the thunderstorms are because of the rainfall,” he says—a necessary ingredient in the region’s vast agricultural enterprise. But if the Southwest continues to heat up and get drier—a pattern climate scientists expect—the warm, high-elevation air it produces will keep streaming off the mountains and killing off the atmospheric imbalances that create storms over the Plains.

The abbreviation “dBz” refers to the radar reflectivity of an airmass; on a radar map, 40 dBz will probably show up orange. As for the really intense storms—the 60 dBz ones, “the one where you have to be careful,” says Brooks—the biggest increases will hit the mid-South, which could see more than six extra days of the super-intense storms each year.

 

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Thunderstorms are part of the intricate & beautiful Traditional Spiritual Walk of the 1st Nation's Indegious Peoples of the vast Plains. Part of our Visions. Our Ancestral Guides. I was invited in & was humbled & honored to learn, grow, see & hear...

From Missouri, I say Yeah climate change, or global warming, or whatever you call it now… you

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That explains why we haven’t had that many thunderstorms and tornadoes here in Texas like past recent years

A USA of 'no fundamental change' Drill oil baby, explore! Wind & solar mostly ignore And yet it warms Deny increased floods & tundra thaws All those costly dry forest burns & bigger storms And yet it warms The true fix conflicts with oily fossil profit norms And yet it warms

It’s the one part of Texas weather I’ve missed since moving to New England, and yes, we have had rather more thunderstorms in the past few years.

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