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You're right and wrong. The company I work with works with the NWS. You'll see intense hurricanes this year as well as a fairly hot summer (but this I mean you're going to see long periods of time where high pressure systems are sitting on top of the area baking it with little to no relief) , but this is mostly due to the extraordinary slow La Nina that is about to take place, it is also why this next winter will be brutal. Climate change exists, but to attribute it as the sole reason for intense weather is lazy..
I'm a bit of a weather geek here.
As you work with the NWS. It's only Mid May and the United States has had an very interesting severe weather season so far.
Are you and the NWS noticing any familar patterns in the past to reference from?
In my neck of the wood (West Michigan). We don't really have much for severe weather other than hail and the occasional straight line winds. It's been a while since we had a Derecho unless you count the 2 dying Derechos in 2019. The most talked about one is the Memorial day 1998 derecho and the heat wave series derecho in July 2006. Tornados, closest was 2 years ago was a funnel cloud but didn't touch down.
Can tell you to that Michigan is expected to have more "severe" storms this summer, not in frequency though, but in intensity. Eventually you're going to have low pressure systems collide with high pressure systems that are moving so slow over the state (US in general), this will create some pretty nasty storms I do think, however I think you'll see a lower number on average this year.
I'd watch out the next two days though, I think Michigan has a pretty moderate risk for strong storms which include tornados. A great tool to use is NOAA's website https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/ where you can see exactly what the forecast is as far as severe weather goes, they're right more than they're wrong and they're also right way more than I am.
Please bare in mind that I am not a meteorologist though and those people are WAY better at predicting than I am, I just work with assessing severe weather.