A tornado destroys a barn—an Economist favourite—in Wisconsin

Last week we illustrated our story on rural voters with this image of a barn close to Cochrane, in western Wisconsin. Sadly, the barn isn’t any extra. On Could twenty first quite a lot of tornadoes touched down within the state. Considered one of them razed the roughly 100-year-old barn to the bottom. Though tornadoes are a well-recognized hazard, the barn was extraordinarily unfortunate. In a mean yr Wisconsin, which is sort of as huge as Austria and Hungary mixed, can anticipate to have about 23 tornadoes, in line with the Nationwide Climate Service. The state’s twister season usually runs from April to September, although this yr for the primary time it recorded one in February. ■

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