Some tornado seasons are much, much worse than others.

This is the fourth worst month for tornadoes ever recorded, and the threat continues tonight with watches and warnings posted in half a dozen states from Oklahoma to New Jersey.

Take a live look at New Jersey this morning. Homes there damage, a high school hit with students inside.

Thankfully, no one was injured. Also take a look at the damage there in Morgantown, Pennsylvania

this morning. Dayton, one of the largest cities in Ohio was struck by back-to-back twisters.

It was scary out here. We were in downtown Kansas City and we could hear the sirens going off

and we didn't know

what was going to happen, where this tornado would fall. And this is actually where it first landed,

but it stayed on the ground for two and a half hours, Kim. That's just an incredible amount of time.

It was the 12th straight day of tornado activity in the United States, a new record, according to the

National Weather Service. But as the New York Times reported Tuesday, limited data make it difficult

to draw explicit connections between a warming climate and trends in severe weather. Even in our

hyper-quantified times, there's still an element of mystery to where, why, and how twisters strike.

Meanwhile, this weekend marks the opening of hurricane season.

For media organizations, hurricanes offer the handiest kind of bad news because the story arc is predictable and invariably compelling.

In our Breaking News Consumer Handbooks Hurricane edition, we examine the myths, misleading language

and tired media narratives that contaminate news coverage at a time when clarity can be a matter

of life and death.

To mark the opening of the season, we're republishing our guide to consuming the coverage to come.

We originally aired this segment in September 2017,

just after Hurricane Harvey dumped about 24 and a half trillion gallons of water on Texas and Louisiana.

As water levels rose in Houston and beyond, the media then

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