El Reno tornado, at 2.6 miles across, was widest on record

[Walter]

Ohhhhhhhhh, maybe you are too young to remember Hurricane Hazel, October 1954!

I am. Sarcasm takes high intelligence to understand and appreciate. Oh yeah, I thought we were talking tornadoes.

 

[B00Mer]

Before Global Warming... we never had destructive tornadoes.

No we never had 2.6 mile wide Tornadoes.

When did they start recording the size of the storms?

1953?? The Enhanced Fujita scale was implemented in 1971. 45 years ago

 

[petros]

There is a persistent and chilly Arctic Low sitting on the Canadian Prairie into ND SD KS NE MN that is clashing with powerful Highs off the Gulf. If it ever decides to warm up here, these big *** storms will subside.

It's not warming causing this, it is record cold that is driving this.

We had frost on the farm the other morning for Christ sakes.

 

[B00Mer]

There is a persistent and chilly Arctic Low sitting on the Canadian Prairie into ND SD KS NE MN that is clashing with powerful Highs off the Gulf. If it ever decides to warm up here, these big *** storms will subside.

...and the storms will move northward.