What's going on??

[Bonny]

However, tornadoes this season have been much worse than any season I can ever remember - and I've been on this old dirt ball for a lot of years!
All weather patterns in general have become very unpredictable in recent years, as compared to years gone by - IMO of course!

I agree with you Pomtzu. The weather is very very extreme. We know longer get a nice morning shower of rain but winds to the maximum with deluging downpours.


I don't think 1,500 people missing in Joplin is anything to ignore or think it is hyped up news. Tornado's can & do touch down with a number of funnel clouds in one area. One can follow the other in a trail of destruction.

There are more people now & larger towns then when I grew up so more destruction.

[Randi]

There's no doubt that we're experiencing extreme weather right now, and I suspect it'll get worse - and unfortunately faster than anyone had expected just 15 years ago.

There are tons of info on the subject and it's simply mind blowing.

There are some interesting articles in this link:
http://knowledge.allianz.com/climate...limate-history

[Lady's Human]

FUkishima Daichi was played out, and logic was starting to beat out the sensationalism, so they had to move on to something else.

Flooding in the Mississippi river valley? There's a reason the great plains are so fertile. The Mississippi floods. If you build your house/camp/whatever in the shadow of flood relief gates, well..........Darwin 1, humans 0.

Tornadoes? Again, it's called tornado alley. Oklahoma has had far worse in terms of tornadoes, and they've done less damage. Maybe different building codes played a part?

The year after Katrina, (Natural storm turned man-aided disaster, building a city below sea level....well......) they alarmists predicted record hurricanes and damages as the global warming catastrophe reached the tipping point. The result? Nothing, and it was dismissed as not being able to predict one year due to global warming, it's still going on, it's just an aberration in the data.

Sorry, when your calculations include a "fudge factor" as part of the programming, you've exhausted all scientific credibility.

Here in upstate NY, we've actually had some pretty nasty rain damage. The floods in 2006 got huge national coverage, because there wasn't much going on, and they had to have something to feed the news cycle.

Five years later, 2011, Otsenengo Park is underwater (again, happens almost every year) the town of Conklin flooded (again, happens almost every year) parts of JC and Binghamton flooded (again).....but no national stories for almost the same flooding as 5 years ago, and only a touch worse than the annual floods. No coverage, though, because there are other disasters to talk about, and upstate NY just didn't panic when the water came in, like it does to some extent almost annually.

[pomtzu]

I wish that I had an "explanation" for everything, then I would know what the heck went on here and in other parts of the country in the 2009/2010 winter season.
I live in central Delaware, and we have an average annual snowfall of about 15". Most years we have much less than that, and some years, nothing at all. However, in the season that I mention, it seems that most of the snow regions in the U.S. and nearby Canada, had their weather turned upside down. We had a total of around 70+" that year, with 2 blizzards back to back, and other smaller snowfalls thruout the season. Other places in the U.S. and Canada, that normally get tons of snow, got very little.
I can't explain it (other than saying weather patterns shifted) - I wonder if anyone else would like to give it a shot???

[wombat2u2004]

I wish that I had an "explanation" for everything, then I would know what the heck went on here and in other parts of the country in the 2009/2010 winter season.
I live in central Delaware, and we have an average annual snowfall of about 15". Most years we have much less than that, and some years, nothing at all. However, in the season that I mention, it seems that most of the snow regions in the U.S. and nearby Canada, had their weather turned upside down. We had a total of around 70+" that year, with 2 blizzards back to back, and other smaller snowfalls thruout the season. Other places in the U.S. and Canada, that normally get tons of snow, got very little.
I can't explain it (other than saying weather patterns shifted) - I wonder if anyone else would like to give it a shot???

Your mate Al Gore might give it a shot

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Nothing new. If it bleeds, it leads.

Tornadoes in the midwest? Tornado alley, anyone?

We had range fires constantly at Ft Hood, some of them huge, cnn didn't cover them in 1990.

24 hour news cycle coupled with human reaction to sensationalist reporting.

Yep, tornado alley. But I have lived here my entire 60+ years and I can assure you we've never had a year like this with this many and this big of tornadoes. Just to be sure, I checked with my bro who is 3 years older. He agrees. Makes me wonder if there may be something to the 12/21/2012 thingy.

The tornado that hit Joplin was an F5 with 200mph winds. Wouldn't that be more like a hurricane force?

[Lady's Human]

Hurricane winds are normally much lower than tornado winds, hurricanes are usually in the 75-125 MPH range.

The Tornado that hit Norman, OK a few years ago was an aberration, it was the first time a tornado had actually hit Norman in recorded history.

We've had tornadoes reported around here, but mainly because the radars have gotten better, and they sent weather teams out to go look at the damage to see if it was really a tornado.

A large % of what are now named storms would have never been noticed 60 years ago, because they are now picked up on weather satellites. Given local experience the past couple years with tornadoes being reported, it doesn't take that much of a jump to logically conclude that teh weather isn't getting worse, but reporting is getting more accurate and more hyped.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Well, a tornado just touched down in Kansas City, Kansas. And several others have been spotted. No word if there are damages.

And while they may not have shown every tornardo in past years, they have kept records of how many there were.

[lvpets2002]

I know all is so horrible with the weather & everything going on these days.. However I do think we had better start listening to the Head Man UpStairs.. I do think God is trying to tell us all something.. Be sure to say lots of Prayers..

[pomtzu]

Your mate Al Gore might give it a shot

I was being facetious when I asked if anyone would like to give it a shot! I guess I should have included this guy - "" If Al was here, I'm sure he would explain it all in great length and detail.

[Lady's Human]

I was being facetious when I asked if anyone would like to give it a shot! I guess I should have included this guy - "" If Al was here, I'm sure he would explain it all in great length and detail.

PT can't afford his appearance fee.

[IRescue452]

The only place having its normal weather is Iceland.

[lizbud]

Today we had one TV station (CBS) devote it's entire coverage to
monitor & issue weather alerts for Tornados & Severe Weather warnings.
No Commercials at all, straight Weather reporting. We've had bad storms
with Tornado watches all day & tomorrow is supposed to be a repeat of
today.

It's unheard of for a commercial TV station to forego money maker
commercials for just weather news. This is strange weather for sure.

[Karen]

The only place having its normal weather is Iceland.

I dunno about that - we are having our normal weather - varying day by day, rain, sun, warm, cool, you name it, we get it!

[chocolatepuppy]

Again, we head for the basement.

Issued by The National Weather Service
Cleveland, OH
Wed, May 25, 2011, 7:17 PM EDT
Local Radar Map
Updated May 25, 2011, 7:50pm EDT

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS EXTENDED TORNADO WATCH 372 TO INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING AREAS UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING

IN OHIO THIS WATCH INCLUDES 3 COUNTIES

IN NORTHEAST OHIO

ASHTABULA MAHONING TRUMBULL

IN PENNSYLVANIA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 2 COUNTIES

IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA

CRAWFORD PA ERIE

THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF... ASHTABULA... ERIE... MEADVILLE... WARREN AND YOUNGSTOWN.