Tornadoes...

There have been more devastating tornadoes in the American Mid-West over the last few days. Check out these images and other detail from National Geographic, which used the term STORMAGEDDON to describe the chaos in a number of communities.

For the latest news on these, but also other weather events that are significant but not necessarily on our news, I follow a few Twitter folks whose jobs take them into the danger zone...

First is James Reynolds @typhoonfury, who is currently tracking the development of Typhoon Songda: a huge storm which has been developing in the area of the Philippines...

Second is Jeff Gammons @weatherzine who works in the USA

Thirdly is Jim Edds @ExtremeStorms who works in a similar field to Jeff, and chases storms and produces amazing images and video resources.

Finally, here's a video via NASA which shows the last few days of storm-generating weather in the region...

Are Tornadoes becoming more common ?  Discuss....

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