Please read the journal article and news releases listed below about how “Tornado Alley” may be shifting. Based on what you have learned from reading chapters 12 & 14, and other fact-based information you may find via the library and Internet, briefly discuss how and why weather patterns in the Tornado Alley and Midwest are changing. How might people have to adjust and plan their living situations differently due to changing weather patterns caused by climate change? Do you think this shift in weather patterns will be long-term (10+ years) or only temporary (less than 10 years)? Be sure to provide solid reasoning based on facts.
News releases:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/08/26/august-tornadoes-frequency/89394800/
https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2016/Q3/center-of-u.s.-tornado-activity-shifting-east-and-south,-possibly-due-to-climate-change.html
http://www.wthr.com/article/purdue-researchers-track-tornado-alleys-move-east
Journal article:
JAMC-Tornado-August 2016.pdf
