US tornado count down for 2012

But really, this is just in the "Global Warming makes everything Worse (NOT) Department".

And in the Bags is Just Taking the Piss Again Department too.

According to the Met Office.

It's worth remembering that.

Even 16 years of results don't make a trend .

one years results can never make a trend!
Bill Bryson in his book about growing up in the 50s in the mid west is pretty entertaining on the subject of the folks sitting on their porches, watching the tornadoes go past in the distance and telling themselves they will be fine.

So is this a blip or a positive aspect of climate change?

I am worried though. If there are no tornadoes how will Dorothy get to Oz

When I was out there in 2001, and delivering a training course in an office block somewhere (can't remember which city now) I was stranded by cyclone fuelled flooding in Texas and then, near Chicago I think it was, struck by the fact that there was a tornado procedure for the building - all go into the middle of the building, away from the windows. (the opposite of a fire evacuation!)
Struck me then that while in the UK we have weather they have climate.