Originally Posted by rikfish
Seems to me it is due to both a simple population increase, being more eyes on the sky, and what appears to be an ever changing weather pattern here.
One of my managers made a comment this week: After putting down the newspaper with all the tornado/funnel cloud pictures he said "some dumb SOB is going to get themselves killed trying to take a tornado picture."
I agreed with him right away, but I didn't tell him about the stupid stuff people video to be a youtube hit. But, yeah, I can see it happening.