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Weather in 2020 set records in deadly and costly ways Share Updated: 2:03 PM CST Dec 25, 2020 National Desk Staff Share Updated: 2:03 PM CST Dec 25, 2020 Hide Transcript Show Transcript this year will be remembered for many things, and we might be able to add hottest year on the record to the list. A United Nations report says 2020 is on track to be one of three warmest years ever recorded on the average global temperature is set to be about 1.2 degrees...

For 13 consecutive days now there have been more than 300 tornadoes that have caused destruction across much of the united states. so what is fuelling this deadly outbreak of tornadoes? joining us now is patrick marsh, the warning coordination meteorologist at the national weather service. i hope i got that right, patrick. lets talk about this almost unprecedented 13-day stretch. what is fuelling this tornadic activity? >> good morning. thank you for having me. whats causing this unprecedented r...

How locked in. so basically what happens is the thunderstorms develop across the central part of the united states. they produce tornadoes on day one. then the thunderstorms will move east. they continue to produce tornadoes as they move east. by the second and third day when they get to the east coast they are still able to produce tornadoes. staten island, new york. it wasnt a tornado but they had golf ball sized hail falling. the thunderstorms that we are seeing now are the kind that you have...

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Reports of injuries, but still very plam and airy at this point, huge storm system that stretches all the way from mississippi up into maine. patrick marsh is joining us by phone now, he is a court in nader with the storm prediction center at that oceanic and atmospheric association. there was a storm, tornado protected, warning area predicted for new orleans today, and patrick, it appears it has come through. >> yes, it certainly has, and based on initial reports, it looks like in east new orle...

Facility where they put together a large rocket components, it looks like it took perhaps a direct hit, certainly a lot of wind because the exterior has been stripped away from that big vehicle assembly building there in that photo. what is the prognosis for the next day or two, what are we looking at? >> the storms that we are looking at moving through louisiana and mississippi will move east, this trumpet action center has issued a new tornado watch for parts of alabama and florida panhandle. ...