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hamburga 3 hours ago

Chicago resident here.

Not disputing the methodology, but our state is the nation's leader in tornadoes (by more than a factor of 2) due to Niña/Niño this year, and Chicago spent a few days this summer with the world's worst air quality due to Canadian wildfire smoke.

Obviously, "resilient" ⍯ "unaffected".

rawgabbit an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I have a hard time believing this site also. When I looked at their methodology at how this list was created, it said "Please fill out our Methodology Request Form, and a member of our team will get back to you, typically within one business day.". As far am I am concerned, I can safely ignore this site.

https://docs.alphageo.ai/climate-resilience-suite/climate-ri...

chasd00 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not the leader yet and not anywhere close to "factor of 2" also the effects of el nino this year haven't even started really. It's more of a winter weather phenomenon.

Current tornado count for Illinois: 210 ( as of 8/29 ) Current record holder is Texas: 244 in 2015

However, Texas is big i don't have the math handy but I bet Illinois is well ahead in terms of tornados/square mile. ..maybe that's where your "factor of 2" comes from? Or maybe people affected since most Tornados in Texas don't affect much except maybe fences and powerlines.

robinson7d an hour ago | parent [-]

I don’t have stats to speak to the validity of their claims, but I think that we parsed their comment in different ways:

- number of “tornadoes due to Niña/Niño“ (my reading)

- “number of tornadoes” (total for the year), with Niña/Niño being why it’s that way (sounds like your reading, since those numbers are the overall)

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