Here's a picture of the weather in the US for the next 48 hours from weather.com

[DainBramaged]

Another MONSTER storm front, huge, catastrophic. Does anyone from the Eisenhower/Kennedy/Nixon years remember weather this shitty and over this much territory this frequently?

[Texasgal]

1. We are DYING for rain...

Clear and sunny here... for months unfortunately. We NEED some rain.

[DainBramaged]

3. They pipe oil and gas all over the country, why not water?

:shrug:


Got floods in the East or Midwest, pump it where it's needed, eliminate the floods.

[a la izquierda]

23. Us too, north of the Red River.

Everything is parched. It's nuts.

[dhill926]

2. beeyoutifull G & T weather here......

in SoCal. Sorry......

[TheIdiot]

29. Kinda nice in central Arizona, too... and honestly...? I'm not sorry. nt

[femmocrat]

4. We didn't have constant sensational weather coverage in the Eisenhower/Kennedy/Nixon years.

We got the local weather and that was it! It was on the 6:00 news (which was only 15 min. long in the 1950s!)

I do remember huge snow storms when I was a kiddo, though. :)

[IndyPragmatist]

5. If you are trying to imply that this is a result of global warming, please dont

Crap like this is what feeds the people that claim global warming doesn't exist. Weather and climate are very different, and one day of weather in the United States tells you absolutely nothing about global warming.

The science is all there. The temperature is rising. But when people make this bold claims that over and over again that the current weather is a result of global warming, it just pushes the real science to the background.

Without question, within a short time, there will be a day of nearly perfect weather throughout the nation. That will have as little to do with climate change as does the current weather.

Whenever record high temperatures are broken, I cringe when I hear someone make the claim (usually joking, but often serious) that its the proof of global warming. Using that logic, any record low temperature is proof that global warming doesn't exist.


But, if you were not implying that the weather was a result of global warming, I apologize, and please disregard my comments. I agree, the weather sucks.

[Drale]

7. I don't know about all that but

I do know that in the last 20 years or so, storms are tracking further north each year it seems here in the South suburbs of Chicago. Talking to some "old timers" there used to be 5 or 6 tornado's in my town every spring but I have like here for 17 years now and we have had 1 tornado. I don't know whats causing it but it might be a consequence of climate change, who knows.

[defendandprotect]

38. GOP rw propagandist Frank Luntz arranged for the name change from

Global Warming to "climate change" in 2002 in his advice to W --

Global Warming makes clear that what we are talking about is HEATING the atmosphere

which creates chaotic weather --

"climate change" sounds like some ... natural?

Hurricanes are moving further North -- and GW is increasing their number and their severity!

[DainBramaged]

8. Jesus, I asked a question and get blasted? THEN you apologize having blasted me anyway?

Meh, meh, and meh.

[defendandprotect]

39. Nice to see someon watching what's going on with weather -- here in NJ

for more than a decade we've been 25 degrees above normal -- and perhaps more now?

HEATING the atmosphere as Global Warming does creates chaotic weather - we are seeing

it everywhere. We've changed wind patterns -- increased winds -- increased hurricanes

and moved them further north. Cyclones, tornadoes, hurricanes -- On and on --

:)


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=902236&mesg_id=913431

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Actually weather pattern changes over the decades

are not only predicted by the science of Global Weather change, but have become obvious in the US in the last five years or so. These changes have been more than obvious in places like Mexico City for a generation now.

[defendandprotect]

40. We've actually been seeing the effects of Global Warming since at least the 1980's ...

Keep in mind that there was a gap in feeling the effects of about 50 years --

In other words, right now the effects we are feeling reflect only human activity

up to about 1960 -- !!

And certainly we got air conditioning in America quite soon after dropping Atomic

bombs on Japan -- testing them over and again - on land, water, islands, etal.

Even exploding a few of them in other space!

We pretty much knew about Global Warming by the late 1950's -- however, scientists

came to see and understand the effects on nature from the industrial reveolution by

the late 1880's --

Interesting to read the Nobel Scientists "Warning to Humanity" on Global Warming

-- and address they made in 1992 -- you'll find it on internet, or I'll find my link

and add it here!

Also --

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=902236&mesg_id=913431


Here ya go --

http://www.ucsusa.org/about/1992-world-scientists.html

[defendandprotect]

35. Global Warming will bring more droughts/floods -- i.e., BOTH --

The HEAT in Global Warming is bringing heavier rains when it does rain --

more and more we are having reports of flooding conditions when it rains here

in NJ --

(and we just had a huge storm last night -- with very, very heavy rains --

which caused flooding in at least one NJ shore town -- Manasquan)

Wind is also picking up -- all the time!

And has been noticable here for at least a decade when large limbs began to

fall from trees due to wind -- we had a high school student killed on a very

windy day -- when students were still permitted to eat lunch outdoors!

Now, our older trees all over town are being pruned within an inch of their lives --

"We have to burn the village to save it!" ---



AND, btw, since many here still don't seem to know it -- Global Warming is also bringing

increasing numbers of other chaotic weather -- hurricanes, cyclones, tornadoes, etal --

and increasing their severity -- IT IS ALSO BRINGING INCREASING NUMBERS OF EARTHQUAKES --

AND INCREASING THE SEVERITY OF EARTHQUAKES --

and the earthquakes, in turn, trigger volcanic activity.



Capitalism is suicidal!!

[Ilsa]

6. I would dearly love to get some of that rain. Park it right here. nt

[Jack Sprat]

10. No. This is almost the new normal.

I have a question for you. Where would you go to find the safest position if you were living in an upper story apartment building? I'm not sure, but the a tornado watch is in effect and I live on a 2nd story.

[Art_from_Ark]

11. For crappy weather, it's hard to beat April 3, 1974

http://www.april31974.com/

[liberalla]

20. OMG! I don't remember having ever heard about that day

or that weather event... 315 people killed and 5,000 injured?

What horrific devastation! I'm just stunned...

[TheIdiot]

31. OMG! A harbinger...

of GLOBAL WARMING!

[liberalla]

43. For sure! From 1974!

[uppityperson]

33. ow ow ow ow ow, read the #s of F5 and F4s, ow

[tkmorris]

12. Looks like April to me

:shrug:

[Monarda]

14. April showers

Bring May flowers.

[DainBramaged]

34. With the floods we've had, I don't think so

the ground oozes water when you step on it. We've lost over a week at work from flooding since mid-March.


It ain't a normal April.

[defendandprotect]

41. It is ... Global Warming --

[Skink]

13. Texas remains in a drought.

[w8liftinglady]

27. My partner lives on Cedar Creek lake. we can walk to the middle of it

It is a man-made resource lake for tarrant County. The drought has lasted so long that we are resorting to using distant resources(100 miles from Ft Worth) for water.

[kestrel91316]

15. Hot, dry, and windy here. Normal for October. April? Not so much.

[TygrBright]

16. Feck, STILL no rain for us...

...I'm seriously starting to wonder whether I'll be able to afford to grow vegetables this summer if the water rates head for the hills the way it's looking they will.

wearily,
Bright

[krispos42]

17. It seems to be an unusually shitty spring here in CT

I haven't been here in 9 years, so I'm not sure if it's just the change in geographical location, but even my parents are complaining about it.

[Canuckistanian]

18. Somebody unrecced this? Seriously?

It was three recs when I saw it. TWO recs AFTER I recced it myself.

[Rhiannon12866]

19. This has been the worst winter that I can remember

At least since I've been driving, and that is 22 years. I was snowed in more times that I can count, it fell so fast and got so deep. It has yet to be completely melted. When I passed the bank sign on my way home tonight, it said 34-degrees, and it's no doubt even lower now. It's April! And now it looks like we'll be getting more rain. We've had flood watches on a regular basis here in NY. :(

[DainBramaged]

22. Same here, 37 over night, last year I had the plants out on the deck already

[defendandprotect]

42. Here in NJ as well -- though no snow left now !!

One of the scientists compared it to having your freezer door open --

re the glaciers melting --

but when that is over, imagine the heat we will be getting!!

We had a huge storm here in NJ last night -- lots of lightning, winds, etal --

flooding conditions -- and don't know how much flooding there was, except do know

the shore today -- surf very heavy - rough. And, some flooding of streets in town

of Manasquan from the rains.

Here's something on Global Warming I posted earlier on this thread --

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=902236&mesg_id=913431

[wellstone dem]

21. Take a look at the Decorah Eagles if you

want to know ---"This is not right!"

http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles

[DainBramaged]

24. This a changing thing. 40 people died over the weekend

from the storm. And it continues through tomorrow. The map link is live.

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[hardcover]

26. Please post the url for that map. So I can check it as it changes in the future. Thanks.

[DainBramaged]

28. http://www.weather.com/

http://www.weather.com/maps/activity/garden/usprecipitationforecast_large.html

[AsahinaKimi]

30. Northern California can use the rain

Its been dry of late, some sprinkles or showers would be helpful.

[DainBramaged]

32. here

[AsahinaKimi]

36. Well

Unfortunately no one has a vote where the weather goes... Since we are going to get it anyway, I am trying to be positive about it. Lets hope things improve for the parched areas of the United States.

[DainBramaged]

37. We had 4.5 inches of rain in the 36 hour period ending moments ago.

and it'd going to rain most of this week. For the month historically, we get less than 4 inches of rain, we exceeded that since yesterday.


http://climate.rutgers.edu/stateclim_v1/data/njhistprecip.html