If New Orleans starts getting snow every year, people better come up with some solid reasons why they don’t think the climate is changing. Once every few years is an aberration, but every year is the climate, and it is changing.

We used to get blizzards in Omaha, but they never featured lightning.

The jet stream has moved, just all kinds of things have gone strange, and the local storms don’t carry the clothes that people need now for the new conditions.

Ah, yes, Lady Min, the fond memories of trudging out to what might be my driveway at 5AM in Rochester, NY with a broom to poke into mounds of snow to see if I can locate a car before I started shoveling. And the return in the afternoon when the street and sidewalk plowing by the city would throw up two mountains of snow across the driveway that I would have to crash through. What fun …

Last I knew, thunder is not normally part of blizzards, Badtux. Temperature differentials between the Gulf and the Arctic air behind the front are worse than ever and causing the frozen thunderstorms. If it clears up and the wind shifts to an onshore flow, it hits 70 in no time. As it stands, the warm Gulf is pulling the air south as the warmer air rises.

Okay, that doesn’t make sense. But righties aim for “truthiness” — things that sound like they *might* be true — and don’t care that what they’re saying is utter gibberish if you actually parse it logically.

– Badtux the Warmer Penguin