Powerful tornadoes are relatively rare in the New Orleans area. Is global warming changing that?

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Article Summary

While scientists have linked droughts, wildfires and flooding to the warming climate, connections to tornado activity are more difficult to discern.

Tyler Fricker
Tyler Fricker
Assistant Professor of Geography

I am an environmental geographer and climatologist who focuses on applied climatology and human-environment interaction through the study of natural hazards using computational and statistical methods.