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kentauros

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12. We pay attention to it.

Reply to Warpy (Reply #5)

Fri May 10, 2013, 11:21 PM

May 2013

Two weeks ago, and again today we had a deluge (I'm in Houston) along with large hail and a high amount of lightning strikes. I was reading a little bit of Dr. Jeff Masters' blog a week or so ago about how the jet stream had taken a huge dip down into the continent and that was part of why the weather has been like this lately.

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Tornado activity hits 60-year low [View all] Psephos May 2013 OP

Thanks Obama. itsrobert May 2013 #1

1954 was a terrible heat and drought year Gman May 2013 #2

Very true, TBH. AverageJoe90 May 2013 #8

The melting Arctic is radically playing with the Jet Streams ErikJ May 2013 #3

See? Global warming is a liberal hoax !! cosmicone May 2013 #4

It's raining and storming here in the high desert Warpy May 2013 #5

We pay attention to it. kentauros May 2013 #12

Tornado alley has been cool this year RobertEarl May 2013 #6

As soon as the hot moist air from the Gulf collides with the cool moist air from the Arctic, we may byeya May 2013 #7

We could possibly catch up a bit this summer, maybe. AverageJoe90 May 2013 #9

Now that definitely IS strange. n/t AverageJoe90 May 2013 #10

Extreme weather and climate disturbances = CLIMATE CHANGE -duh. ErikJ May 2013 #11