>crazier than a lot of the storms I experienced down south.

The south is getting tons of tornados this month

>The calendar may say January, but — fueled by record-challenging warmth — the atmosphere is behaving like it’s March or April. A slew of tornadoes, as well as severe thunderstorms with damaging winds and hail, have ripped across parts of the South, Midwest and even California amid multiple rounds of dangerous weather so far this month. Another episode could strike the South on Wednesday just six days after tornadoes killed 10 people in Alabama and Georgia.

>Midway through January, the National Weather Service has already received 124 preliminary reports of tornadoes. That number far outpaces the national average of 36 for the month, although a small number of reports are unconfirmed and may be duplicates.

>Monday bore witness to a pair of tornadoes in an unlikely place: Iowa. The state hadn’t seen a January tornado since 1967, according to the National Weather Service, and these were the earliest recorded during the month. The twisters, which touched down near Cedar Rapids, may be the farthest northwest tornadoes ever observed during January.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/01/17/winter-tornadoes-severe-storms-climate/