While the timing of this trend lines up with the planet’s rising temperatures, scientists are hesitant to definitively attribute tornadoes’ clustering behavior to human-caused climate change.

“The link between climate change and tornadoes is still pretty tenuous,” Dr. Fricker said. “It’s a really open and difficult question for us.” One difficulty is that tornadoes are too small on a planetary scale, and too ephemeral, to show up in the global mathematical models that scientists use to study climate change.

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    6 months ago

    I’ve lived in the same part of Ohio my entire life (I’m 28) and in the entire time I’ve lived here we had exactly 1 tornado touch down in the county. Within the past two years alone we’ve had at least 4 in the state and two of which I ended up driving through by accident.

    We’re all so fucked it’s unreal.