and notice the location. that happened in illinois. so it can and has happened before. but you could just see how highly unusual it is. so why did this event happen? if you ve been following the weather this december, it haven t felt like december. it s been like october. the temperatures have been way too warm for december. so we re in like a fall-like weather pattern. every now and then in fall we ll get severe weather outbreaks. one or two every fall. because it was like a fall-like weather pattern with the cold air behind it, we had the right ingredients. and the gulf is warm. as far as the climate change angle, we don t know that we re seeing more tornadoes. we do not know that they re getting anymore intense because of climate change, but we have seen in the climate pattern, it s shifting. the tornadoes are starting to be more frequent toward the tennessee valley. so that s what the research shows us. but i can t sit here and say because we re warming our planet we are getting st