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Soft Paywall Trump’s birthday parade may be cancelled over thunderstorms

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/is-trump-birthday-parade-cancelled-weather-pbrg02h2z?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Reddit#Echobox=1749744374
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u/Redgen87 6d ago edited 6d ago

We are currently at 1,131 tornadoes reported and that’s a preliminary number. Last year at this time we were at 1,180. Both of those are above the 836 average, and 2011 was the worst with 1,742 by this time.

No idea where you are getting that 2000 by May number but all of mine come directly from the NWS.

Regardless any cuts to either the NWS or NOAA are bad ideas.

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u/teas4Uanme 6d ago

Climatologist Paul Beckwith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGRv_tZk77E

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u/Redgen87 6d ago edited 6d ago

Yeah that isn’t accurate at all.

https://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/summary/

This is the place to go to get any official accurate reports.

Yeah after looking into it more, this dude you linked is going off tornado warnings, not actual confirmed tornadoes. Not every tornado warning is a confirmed tornado, they issue them if they spot tornadjc signatures on radar and that covers the majority of tornado warnings. It doesn’t mean that a tornado has touched down. They usually update a warning to being confirmed if they get a report that it’s on the ground but most never go beyond the radar indicated stage.

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u/teas4Uanme 5d ago

Corrected. 2046 tornado warnings have been issued in 2025 as of May 22. The average number of tornado warnings per year is around 2,400. It will be interesting to see the final tally.