Tricky to Link Tornadoes and Climate Change
While research has firmly established the connections between warmer temperatures and hurricanes, precipitation, and other extreme weather, linking tornadoes to climate change is a slightly trickier proposal, given how complex they are. The factors that create tornadoes—humidity, wind speed, cold and warm air—are all affected differently by climate change. Given that tornado records are smaller and historically more sparse than other forms of weather data, scientists are working to try and figure out how tornados are being affected by our changing climate.
