Tornado warning and understanding global winds patterns enhances tornado forecasting. Over the past month, meteorology professor at the College of DuPage near Chicago, Victor Gensini has been popularized for mixing existing prediction methods with a global circulation index. The Global Wind Oscillation (GWO) describes the addition of tropical moisture and energies through atmospheric channels, which
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Spring 2016’s El Niño Remnants May Affect Tornadoes in the US. Every season and every El Niño are unique but meteorologists are able to make some basic assessments of how such events may affect tornado output based on prior observations. Several factors drive weather, so the higher temperatures in the Pacific related to El Niño
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Property Damage and Weather hazards come in many forms. Hurricanes, tornadoes, hailstorms, floods, winter weather and wildfires are all common culprits that bear their own sets of potential threats. Hurricanes The least common of the six, hurricanes are good to begin with because they often encompass most of the ways that property damage and weather
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Tornado Damage in Washington State seldom makes national headlines but, on average, it is incurred every year. Normally damage is minimal but there have been several deaths and major devastation from a few tornadoes in recent decades. Washington’s deadliest outbreak struck on April 5, 1972 when an F3 spawned over Vancouver and tracked over a
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