If you have lived in Mississippi over the last 20 years, you may already know that as Thanksgiving Day approaches, severe weather tends to become more of a threat than other time during the month of November and data from the National Climatic Data Center has verified that as fact.
According to data since 1980 from the NCDC, there is usually a sharp peak in severe weather weather during Thanksgiving Week in Mississippi, typically from the 22nd to the 24th.
The sharp increase in severe weather during this time frame (November 22-24) is mainly due to 3 major and deadly severe weather/tornado outbreaks, which have killed 21 people and injured over 400 others.
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[National Weather Service Jackson-Madison F-4 tornado on November 24, 2001]
So while the month of November has remained fairly quiet over the last 2 years and has remained fairly calm so far this year, everyone should continue to remain alert for the potential of severe weather as Tornado Awareness Month and the secondary severe weather season continues.
With the number of people killed and injured over the years around Thanksgiving Day in Mississippi, it has truly been a day to give thanks for your life and well- being!
Previous information:
- Woodie Assaf, longest serving TV weatherman in the nation is dead at the age of 92
- United States recorded its wettest month of October on record
- NASA discovers water on the moon!
- Mississippi Gulf Coast ranked #4 & New Orleans ranked #1 in the most hurricane vulnerable areas
- Dry weather with pleasant temperatures through the weekend
- Ida landfalls on Dauphin Island, Alabama; weakens and loses tropical characteristics
- Tropical Storm Ida triggers State of Emergency for Mississippi
- Ida weakens to a tropical storm; Hurricane Warnings replaced with Tropical Storm Warnings
- Hurricane and Tropical Storm Warnings as Ida approaches the northern Gulf Coast
- Category 2 Hurricane Ida; Hurricane Watches from Southeastern Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle
- Ida emerges over the northwestern Caribbean Sea; headed for the Gulf of Mexico
- Ida becomes the 3rd hurricane of the 2009 Atlantic Hurricane Season
- Tropical Storm Ida forms; 9th named storm of the 2009 Atlantic Hurricane Season
- Tropical Depression 11 forms in the southwestern Caribbean Sea
Winter Outlook information:
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Thank God someone is looking out for the animals. Jesus set a terrible example of cruelty by casting that herd of swine over the cliff to drown in the ocean. Did He do time for that?
As to the story, animals have a right to adequate shelter like everyone else, and massive underground facilities should be made to accommodate large groups of animals in the path of a storm.
Oh, least I forget. Very nice article. Particularly like the graphic illustration.
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Michael, i just do not understand it at all-lol
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