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Map: Fawn Lake

Are you looking for FIPS or GeoID codes to match against NY SWIS codes?

You can find them in this shapefile here: http://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/inventories/details.cfm?DSID=927 or using the state’s ArcMap server: https://gisservices.its.ny.gov/arcgis/rest/services/NYS_Civil_Boundaries/FeatureServer/6

The relevant fields as SWIS and FIPS_CODE, the later which is the GeoID used by the Census bureau.

To link state tax data to that file, you may need to zero the last two digits of SWIS codes with code like this in R or your favorite language: taxroll$swis <- gsub('.{2}$','00', taxroll$swis)

Map: Galen Wildlife Management Area

NPR

Why the link between tornadoes and climate change is hard to draw : NPR

Scientists know that warm weather is a key ingredient in tornadoes and that climate change is altering the environment in which these kinds of storms form. But they can't directly connect those dots, as the research into the link between climate and tornadoes still lags behind that of other extreme weather events such as hurricanes and wildfire.

That's at least in part due to a lack of data — even though the U.S. leads the world in tornadoes, averaging about 1,200 a year.