The local news said that there are states that have seen 45 tornadoes today!

The weather has been crazy lately. I don't live i Missouri or any of the states that have been hit so hard, but I have family and friends in some of the areas. I don't remember a year ever that's been so hard on them.

45 tornadoes?? That's a really huge number. Don't know what causes it or where these tornadoes come from mainly. I've never seen a tornado for life and there's none in Singapore ...but I really wish that everybody out there will be safe.

Hello again! I find tornadoes really scary but I want to know one thing if I may? Why are a lot of the houses damaged by these things made out of wood? Is this the case or am I being the usual, naive Brit?

Nature is lashing back at us for thousands years of being taken for granted. Some countries facing floods all year round, some have problems with earthquake, some got tornadoes etc. Even if we start to do good with nature now I don;t think it will get back to its former condition. Still, we can only hope for the best. Hope those states are able to defend themselves from the tornadoes.

hi, what,45 tornadoes?is that real?so you need to start to prepare in this calamity,and stock foods and things that you need in time of emergency.just pray to stop this 45 tornadoes.

Yeah, I've been watching the news lately, keeping up with all of this. It's crazy. Just last night in Georgia, we had another nasty thunderstorm, did more damage than last time. I was scared the oak tree would fall on our house. Alabama had it pretty bad too. I was glad that my cousin was safe. We were all worried.

Tornadoes occur when warm humid air masses clashes with cold air masses. These air masses follow the jet stream. At this time of the year the air masses are moving northward. It is not uncommon for tornadoes and thunder storms to break out and follow the jet stream north. These storms also come in cycles and over the years there have been major outbreaks like this. April 3-4 1974 there was a Super Outbreak of Tornadoes that hit Ohio. During the two day out break 34 people were killed and thousands were left homeless. The City of Xenia, Ohio was almost totally destroyed. During the 2 day Super Outbreak there were 148 confirmed Tornadoes covering 13 states and the Canadian Province of Ontario. These storms damaged over 900 sq miles and covered over 2600 miles. Some places get hit harder than others and some years there are more storms than other years. My thoughts and prayers go out to those who lost loved ones and homes in these storms.

Our weather station was just discussing this. We have been unusually quiet in Kansas, both last year and this year. Only six so far. It is not normal. There have been 656 tornadoes confirmed in April. There is usually only about 1000 from April through June. Last year there was over 1500.

I hope that everyone is safe. It is dangerous but we pray that you are all right