albany tornado

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We used to get tornado watches and warnings all the time when I was a kid in Florida. They were smaller, not like the huge devastating ones the midwest generates. But occasionally they'd take out a single classroom at a school, and one took out the guard shack at the GE plant where my father worked (but didn't touch the rest of the facility). "Twister" in the US is a common/slang term for the storms and "Cyclone" is sometimes incorrectly used (a cyclone is correctly the equivalent of hurricane or typhoon). At any rate, I have many memories of moving the dining room table into the hallway so we could sit under it if one decided to turn our way (my mother was a tad on the paranoid side). The scary thing about them is that they are very unpredictable in their path.

Yeah, the weather has been getting weird all over the last couple of years. Could be a "natural" climactic variation, but it is also consistent with the signature of climate change, FWIW.