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Damaged vehicles and personal property are strewn over a wide area along Kentucky 81, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, in Bremen, Ky, after a devastating tornado swept through the area on

Unusually warm temperatures and a storm system moving east linked to the La Nina weather pattern helped create the conditions necessary for the monstrous tornadoes and severe weather that tore through parts of the the Midwest and South

Unusually warm temperatures and a storm system moving east linked to the La Nina weather pattern helped create the conditions necessary for the monstrous tornadoes and severe weather that tore

Us more of these stalled weather patterns and these very large undulations in the jet stream that give us big high pressures, big low pressures and extreme weather events. the climate models are underestimating the impact that climate change seems to be having on these events. uncertainty suspect our friend. if anything, we have underestimated some of the more detrimental impacts of climate change. >> michael mann, i appreciate your insights. i learn quite lot when i get a chance to talk to you ...

Streaming in from the south, and that collided with an extremely cold air mass to the north. that combined with a powerful jet stream. the jet stream is upper level winds that help steer weather patterns across the planet. where that triple point actually occurred, that is exactly where the storm prediction center had highlighted our greatest threat of severe thunderstorms, super cells that had the capability of produce long-track tornadoes and thats exactly what happened. in fact, they had over...

Climate change is having. you make the planet warmer youre going to get longer and intense heat waves, youre going to evaporate more moisture into the atmosphere so theres more moisture to turn into record rainfall events and flooding epvents. and you take the heat and the summer drought as the warm air bakes the earth, you get these unprecedented droughts like weve seen. thats all pretty easy to explain. but were seeing an increase in the persistence and frequency of these events that cant simp...

One more question before we have to go. am i wrong in thinking that tornados in december are not a common thing? >> reporter: that is correct. it is not a common thing. it was a very strange confluence of weather patterns that occurred to cause the jet stream which usually goes at very, very high altitude to plummet to earth and hit up against a warm front. and thats what caused these -- what were initially thunderstorms that became tornadoes, and went on for a long time. this is very, very unus...

Denver finally got its first snowfall of the season on Friday, shattering an 87-year-old record for the citys latest first snow.

Denver finally got its first snowfall of the season on Friday, shattering an 87-year-old record for the citys latest first snow.

Denver finally saw its first snowfall of the season on Friday, shattering an 87-year-old record for the latest first snow