Severe weather: April was a doozy of a month

(RNN) - With the record-breaking April tornadoes, precipitation causing extensive flooding and extreme wildfires and drought, the spring of 2011 took severe weather to the next level.

April's tornado outbreak was one of the worst seen in more than 50 years. More than 750 tornadoes were reported nationwide - far exceeding the average number, 163, usually produced during the month of April.

The severe weather outbreak on April 25-28 alone killed more than 300 people.

April 27 set a one-day record for tornado fatalities since 1950. The tornadoes spawned across the Southeast are currently blamed for 314 deaths, topping the previous record of 310 deaths caused by an April 3, 1974 outbreak in the heartland. Final death statistics are still being gathered.

[SLIDESHOW: Tornado damage across the Southeast]

According to the AP, the death toll for the year is still far behind the record of 794 deaths in 1925. Tornadoes have killed 546 people so far this year: 334 in April, 117 in May, three in June, one in February and one in March.

But it wasn't just tornadoes that swept through the U.S. and broke records. Precipitation levels and scorched acres of land made their mark.

There were 1,300 daily precipitation records broken in April, with 72 locations reporting their wettest day, and five of which set all-time daily records for any month, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

In April, Texas and New Mexico suffered through a 26-day dry spell. These conditions set the stage for the most wildfire activity on record in April since 2000, with more than 1.7 million acres burned.

Overall, the month of April was the seventh-warmest since record keeping began for NOAA in 1979, but not record-setting.

With all this severe weather pummeling the landscape, interest in the effects of climate change and global warming seems to be at an all-time high.

"Any single weather event is driven by a number of factors, from local conditions to global climate patterns and trends. Climate change is one of these,"Thomas Karl, director of the National Climatic Data Center said. "It is very likely that large-scale changes in climate, such as increased moisture in the atmosphere and warming temperatures, have influenced, and will continue to influence, many different types of extreme events, such as heavy rainfall, flooding, heat waves and droughts.

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