The author of the chart describes it (quoting from Bluesky):
>Now that 2024 death toll is probably final (54), here’s an update to per capita US tornado deaths. Black dots are single year, red is smoother (5-pt running mean of 3-pt median). Log-scale. Large decrease from ~1925-~1995, relatively flat before and after that. Original is now 25 years old.
Graybie on
Yay for science and significant government investment in forecasting systems and infrastructure.
Lyrick_ on
The population growth of Tornado free zones (like Alaska and Hawaii) should not have any impact on Tornado deaths per capita…
but here we are.
mean11while on
How much of this is due to improvements in infrastructure, warnings, etc., and how much is due to the fact that most US population growth has occurred in areas that rarely get tornadoes?
trailhounds on
What year was NWS founded? Or, right 1870, steady year-on-year decline. Wow, science!
smashed__ on
Can someone explain to me why the scale is shown logarithmically?
damian20 on
Fake news. Stop all scientific tools that predict tornados since they cause cancer. Stop funding as it’s a waste of money…
– Trump probably
NihilisticPollyanna on
Don’t worry, we’re gonna get those numbers back up after we cut more of that “frivolous spending” and expose the widespread “fraud” among those silly, bloated agencies.
USA! USA!
/s
basefibber on
Read this as tomato death rate and now I want that chart
ThriceFive on
AKA Chart that proves I worry WAY too much about being killed by a tornado.
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The author of the chart describes it (quoting from Bluesky):
>Now that 2024 death toll is probably final (54), here’s an update to per capita US tornado deaths. Black dots are single year, red is smoother (5-pt running mean of 3-pt median). Log-scale. Large decrease from ~1925-~1995, relatively flat before and after that. Original is now 25 years old.
Yay for science and significant government investment in forecasting systems and infrastructure.
The population growth of Tornado free zones (like Alaska and Hawaii) should not have any impact on Tornado deaths per capita…
but here we are.
How much of this is due to improvements in infrastructure, warnings, etc., and how much is due to the fact that most US population growth has occurred in areas that rarely get tornadoes?
What year was NWS founded? Or, right 1870, steady year-on-year decline. Wow, science!
Can someone explain to me why the scale is shown logarithmically?
Fake news. Stop all scientific tools that predict tornados since they cause cancer. Stop funding as it’s a waste of money…
– Trump probably
Don’t worry, we’re gonna get those numbers back up after we cut more of that “frivolous spending” and expose the widespread “fraud” among those silly, bloated agencies.
USA! USA!
/s
Read this as tomato death rate and now I want that chart
AKA Chart that proves I worry WAY too much about being killed by a tornado.