WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- As new storm forecasts hit home, areas already prone to severe weather need to be on the lookout for more storms. The latest forecast says global warming spells bad news for those areas.
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Nancy Werner has seen many storms blow through trees in her yard, but there's one storm she'll never forget.
"We started hearing things land on our house," Werner told Ivanhoe.
A stump is all that's left of what she heard falling.
"We went upstairs and found limbs through our ceiling," Werner said.
The storm cost Werner $40,000 in repairs, but more severe storms could add up to a lot more. Research meteorologists at Purdue University are using climate models to study future weather conditions that would most likely produce a severe storm. Severe storms are ones that cause flooding and have damaging winds and hail. Some spawn tornadoes.
"What we found is that increases in human-induced greenhouse gases will lead to more frequent severe storms in the United States," Jeff Trapp, Ph.D., a meteorologist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., told Ivanhoe.
Based on the models, the researchers believe the number of days that favor the formation of severe storms could more than double in places like Atlanta and New York. These added storms will likely hit areas during already heavy storm seasons and extend wet weather seasons.
"This obviously impacts people in terms of potential hazards to their life and property," Dr. Trapp said.
Researchers hope warning homeowners of increased storm days will help more people prepare earlier. Werner already has a plan in place.
"We've decided we're going to a hotel," she said.
Researchers plan to use higher resolution models to find out how often future storms will spawn tornadoes.
The American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union contributed to the information contained in the TV portion of this report.
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