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Extreme weather has hit not only Alaska. It has also struck the lower 48 US states, where the first three months of 2012 has seen twice the normal number of tornadoes and one of the warmest winters on record.
Two different weather phenomena – La Nina and its northern cousin the Arctic Oscillation – are mostly to blame, meteorologists say. Global warming could also be a factor because it is supposed to increase weather extremes, according to climate scientists.
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Much more like 54-55. Tornado count as of today now 3rd out of last 10 years. Fading nina means we are not going to have the tornado season we had last year.
However to skunk the AGW nuts, this past year was like 1954 with texas drought, heat, east coast hurricane and now anchorage. The message to the AGW people trying to shove this down our throats.. ITS THE PDO, STUPID . Actually they are not stupid, they know very well what they are doing and the deception it relies on
Agree with anonymous. The record exceeded the two prior top yeasr 1954/55 adn 1955/56. That was when the PDO was cold as it is now and we had a two year La Nina like we did now. We also had the Texas drought and landfalling hurricanes as we did in 1954 and 1955.
The number of strong tornadoes last year was exceeded 5 times from the 1950s to 1970s when the Pacific was in the same cold mode.
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