As of 2AM Friday: Storms, no deaths. – Forecasters using computers warn that current weather conditions in the Midwest are the same as those that caused 39 tornadoes to touch in the Great Plains over 30 years ago on June 8, 1974, killing 22 people.

MSNBC quotes meteorologist Brad Mickelson as saying, “The highest risk is central Kansas and the entire centralportion of the country. There is a high risk of severe thunderstorms.”

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As a wise man once warned us, we can’t plan for the future(or even predict it) without learning from the past!

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Update: Deadly storms get worse. – More damage and deaths occurred last night assevereweather rolled eastward, spreading death anddestruction into the southeastern US. The central UScontinues to be the scene of unusuallyviolent weather, as waspredicted byUnknowncountry.com inJanuary stories about the unusual midwinter tornadoes thatwere taking place at that time. In addtion to killing 11people in Oklahoma and causing millions of dollars inproperty damage, the recent series of storms have affectedthe planting season, meaning that many crops will be in evenmore short supply this fall.read more

Waves of hitherto rare midwinter tornadoes swept thesouthern part of America’s heartland yesterday. So far 28people are known to have been killed in Tennessee, 13 inArkansas, 7 in Kentucky and 4 inAlabama. A family of 3 was killed in Arkansas. This is thesecond time this winter tornadoes have erupted in thecentral US. The storms are due to the fact that, after eachblast of cold air passes, a strong flow of warm, humid airdevelops, surging up from the Gulf of Mexico. Then the nextcold wave comes, with explosive results all along the front.In the past, winter tornadoes were rare, but now they’rekillers. What can we expect in the future?
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