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** The One-Minute Meeting
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More southern communities are cleaning up after another night of storms. Many of the searchers had just finished looking for survivors from Friday night’s storms that ended in Mississippi and Alabama. After an unsettling weather weekend, and after an unsettling few months of storms around America, let’s look at the data to see if tornadoes are more common now. The data shows us that we are not experiencing more tornadoes, but two things are changing: Southern states, including Mississippi and Alabama, are becoming the new tornado alley, and storm systems are more likely to produce tornado clusters rather than a single cell. In today’s column, we will find out why this is happening.
It also is an opportunity for us to explore whether there is a link between tornado outbreaks and climate change. Despite what your intuition might tell you, there is no such hard proof to make that connection, unlike the linkage between climate change and hurricanes, floods and droughts.
As one of the strongest storm cells approached a Mississippi town Friday night, a local TV meteorologist who was on the air gasped as his radar screen finished a new sweep. He saw that a breathtakingly powerful storm was seconds from ripping through a town. He stopped, offered a line of prayer, said “amen” and turned right back to tracking the storm like the pro he had to be at that moment. I will link you to the video and remind you that these meteorologists save lives, lots of lives, even though they tell me sometimes that they worry they didn’t do enough to warn and implore people to move to safety.
The U.S. House of Representatives just passed a “Parents Bill of Rights” that has zero chance of passing the Senate or becoming law, but you will be hearing quite a lot about it in the next election season. Let’s explore what is in this legislation from Republicans that they will crow about in the next election cycle.
And hockey fans are not happy that the NHL is changing the supplier for on-ice and fan jerseys. The old suppliers are being replaced by a less expensive name. Fans say if they are going to pay $100 for a shirt, they want it to say Adidas or Nike. In my view, pro and college teams and apparel suppliers abuse loyal fans by charging outrageous prices for shirts and hats and such that promote the team that is selling them. Instead of you paying them for a hat, they should pay you to wear it. Just saying.
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