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  • Study: Winter tornadoes to get more powerful as world warms

    Dec 15, 2021 9:00 am by Associated PressIllinois in the News
    aerial photo of tornado damage in Mayfield, Kentucky. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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    The Associated Press (Dec. 14) Nasty winter tornadoes are likely to be stronger and stay on the ground longer with a wider swath of destruction in a warming world, says study author Jeff Trapp, the head of atmospheric sciences at the U. of I.