Rough Spring
This latest CBS/Associate Press report is just the latest example of the severe weather that has been ripping across the middle of the US lately: Midwest Storms Bring Flooding, Kill 3
(CBS/AP) At least three people are dead after severe weekend storms in the Midwest.
Two Michigan newspaper carriers drowned this morning when their car was submerged along a washed-out road.
Another person was killed in Indiana, where record flooding is continuing along several rivers.
Hundreds of people have been evacuated from Indiana homes, a hospital and a flooded nursing home.
In Nebraska, the National Weather Service has confirmed at least one category EF 2 tornado touched down in a neighborhood in west Omaha.
Emergency management teams are reporting no deaths or major injuries, but dozens of homes have been damaged including some that may be total losses.
Dr. Jeff Masters points out one of the reasons: Climate Change Shifts Jet Stream.
If you look at the graphic and then compare the southern edge of the jet stream with the recent rash of severe weather you see that the storms having running along that line. The jet stream causes turbulence in the atmosphere and helps in the formation of thunderstorms and tornadoes.
The change in the jet stream changes the patterns storms follow. Dr. Masters thinks this may be very bad news for Central America during the hurricane season, and has certainly been bad news for the Midwest.
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It has been storming here for days. I am watching the lightening and listening to the thunder at this very moment. The long range forecast (10 days) has rain every day. The humidity is horrible… it’s worse here than in the tropics. The dew point was 74. We have mosquitoes already! There was a toad in one of my flower pots yesterday!
And I’m getting tired of all those interruptions on TV telling me a tornado watch has been issued. They interrupted my Cubs game twice! And now you’re telling me this will go on all summer because the jet stream moved? 🙁
Ok… /rant. I couldn’t help myself.
Our heat indexes have been 3 digit for a week and the storms are pulling moisture our of the Gulf to the North.
We had a thunderstorm pass North of us today going West! The weather systems are supposed to flow from the West to the East, not the other way. This is messed up.
During the summer the storms are supposed to moved out over the northern Gulf at Houston, and then break more to the northeast when they get here. That isn’t happening because the jet stream is too far North.
west?! storms moving west? that’s just not right.
grrrrrr. we shouldn’t have to pay to read these articles.
…fortunately the weather hasn’t been so wild in the upper left hand corner, but it has been passably weird. It’s still snowing at fairly low elevation on a regular basis; in fact there is a heavy snow warning today for the Central Washington Cascades and the snow level in Central and Eastern Orygun will be 4500 feet tonite (which is the approximate elevation of the desk in my office)…
It’s damn hot, that’s all I know.
Hipparchia, you don’t want to know what the library subscription rate is for professional journals. I’ve always felt they were a racket, especially since so much of the research is funded by tax dollars.
I see the “North” side of the jet angles right over central Oregon hauling down cold air from the Arctic, Jack. It’s a bumpy ride getting into and out of those jets, and clear air turbulence around them. This is why “global climate change” is a better descriptor than “global warming” – some areas are actually colder than normal.
Just head over to Hinckley and jump in the reservoir, Frederick, the water is in the 40s even in the Summer. You’ll meet a lot of my relatives, as starting at about Illion and going to Syracuse, about 10% of the people you meet along the Mohawk will be cousins of mine through blood or marriage.
First we have a cold-ass spring.
Now we have heat waves in June, before the kids get out of school (and no, they don’t have a/c in the schools up here!)…..
The Weather Channel doesn’t even know what is up, this morning I turned it on, it said it was supposed to be 100 today, then a few seconds later it said 99, lol.
i do know about those rates, and yes it’s a racket. it’s a pet peeve of mine.
Moi, for a week when I checked my local weather, the forecast high was at least 5 degrees cooler than the current temperature. The models aren’t working any more.
I found out about them when I was doing a research paper and requested copies of a couple of journals through the university’s library. The librarian informed me that I would see hell freeze over before she had the budget to order either of them. I got what I needed by writing to the authors and including cash for copying. The authors were a bit put out when they found out what the papers cost through the journal, as they weren’t getting a cut.