Scott Gunter

And as I was thinking about this, and this kind of connects to even what Barry was seeing, whereas our wind gusts kind of have not necessarily seen that same pattern.

And I think this is where it does get difficult, and it's always worth reiterating this idea of weather versus climate.

And

trying to pull out specific weather events from large-scale climate data sets is kind of tough.

Maybe in another two years, I'll have a more direct, less... You're working on it.

Yes.

Yeah.

A more direct, less kind of wishy-washy answer for you, but...

Excellent question.

So when we talk about things like tornadoes, we generally portray them like cupcakes.

So, in order to make cupcakes appear, you have to have all the ingredients at your house, in your kitchen.

And then you have to mix those ingredients together in order to produce a cupcake that's going to sit on a very specific place at your counter.

So, with…

With tornado alley or this idea of tornado alleys, we're basically highlighting these regions where the ingredients come together relatively frequently.

A tornado can happen anywhere, anywhere those ingredients come together.

And so what we're seeing, I think, is maybe variations in where those ingredients are coming together.

And there could be a lot of different things driving that.

We can say in the future that with climate change, the ingredients,

may come together more frequently in places they haven't come together before, like this shift that we're seeing in Tornado Alley.

But we can't necessarily say anything about tornadoes themselves.