EXPLAINER: What came together to make deadly Alabama tornado
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DENVER (AP) — A La Nina weather pattern, warm moist air coming from an unusually toasty Gulf of Mexico, likely juiced by climate change, and a decades long eastward shift of tornadoes came together to create the unusually early and deadly storm system that hit Alabama Thursday, meteorologists said.
And it may be the start of a bad tornado year, one expert worries.