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Moderate days in the month of november. you can see this area highlighted in red. that's the biggest threat. we could see tornados the size of ef-2 or higher. it's not going to be out of the question to see ef-3 tornados with this system. you can see the area with the hashmarks. that's going to be your greatest tornado threat. this includes jackson, vicksburg, memphis, tennessee, needs to be on high alert with this. there's the snow, you can see across the plains, the upper midwest. all of this moisture is being brought in from the gulf of mexico and so it is going to create an environment tha...

In front of them are gone, so you can directly see the path moving right straight through there. >> reporter: as the community grieves, many are asking why. >> this is the largest event ever in december in terms of severe weather and tornadoes. >> reporter: experts are working to understand what fueled these monster storms. >> this is very unusual. >> josh durkey is a meteorology professor at the university of kentucky. >> there is warm air ushering in a lot of moisture in the lower levels of the atmosphere, and the wind sheer set up an environment for storms to tap into that environment and t...

Severe weather tornadoes. >> experts are working to understand what fueled these monster storms. >> this is very unusual. >> josh turkey is a meteorology professor at western kentucky university. what happened here? >> there was a widespread area conducive to severe weather. there was warm air ushering in a lot of moisture in the lower levels of the atmosphere. and the wind shear set up an environment for storms to tap into that environment and thrive. >> the unusual nature of the storms have many wondering if this is a result of climate change. >> climate change is a very complex discussion. ...

As they struggle to recover, a powerful new storm system could bring tornados to parts of iowa and minnesota tomorrow minnesota has never had a tornado confirmed in december. dasha burns reports from kentucky on the shifting tornado landscape. >> reporter: in bowling green, kentucky, no words can describe the devastation. >> you can see that these two houses are gone, and then the houses in front of them are gone. you can directly see the path moving right straight through there. >> reporter: as the community grieves, many are asking why. >> this is the largest event ever in december in terms ...

In realtime in the form of these monster storms. and we know that for each degree celsius of warming of the ocean surface, you get 7% more moisture in the air. so the potential for much greater amounts of rainfall. but you get as much as a 20% increase in wind speeds. and a 60% increase in intensity. so there's no coincidence here. the most intense and destructive hurricanes on record in the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere and the atlantic and pacific for the globe have all happened within the last decade because of record warm ocean temperatures, record amounts of heat that fuel t...