100% or normal snowpack is enough to bring most rivers close to flood stage. We are seeing 200%-500% across much of the west.
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/snotelanom/basinswen.html
Thank goodness Lake Powell has plenty of reserve storage capacity to absorb the inevitable floodwaters.
The wet, stormy, tornadic weather is associated with cold temperatures, not warm – as Joe Romm and other dishonest propagandists want people to believe.
http://mapcenter.hamweather.com/records/7day/us.html
Chris Matthews says President Obama talking about his Irish “heritage” in Dublin today reminded him of “Kennedy back in ’63.”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/
President Barack Obama declared solidarity between the United States and economically struggling Ireland (both countries are bankrupt) with a symbolic gulp of beer and a rousing speech, telling a huge Dublin crowd on Monday: “Your best days are still ahead.”
My colleague Damian Thompson appears to be under the impression that Obama is a great guy because he said nice things about the Queen. Look, I think the Queen’s great too, but did it really not occur to my distinguished colleague (and editor) that there might have been a hint of an ulterior motive here? Obama can’t stand Britain (his wife likes us even less): he made that clear enough when he sent back Winston Churchill’s bust and dissed our Prime Minister with those dodgy DVDS. He blames us for what happened to his grandfather during Mau Mau. He doesn’t believe in the Special Relationship. Are we honestly supposed to believe in that during the subsequent year in office, Obama has since acquired such wisdom and insight that he suddenly realises how special we are?
Of course he hasn’t. Obama is just doing now what all bullies and losers start doing when they realise how unpopular they are and that everyone is abandoning them. They suck up to anybody and everybody. They whore themselves piteously before enemies they once considered beneath their contempt. Fain will they fill their bellies with husks that swine eat – but which no man will give them: and serve them jolly well right, too!
By all means let us enjoy watching Obama smarm and grovel and ingratiate himself like some presidential Uriah Heep. But for heaven’s sake let us never give him the benefit of the doubt. He’s a cold fish and would certainly never show any mercy towards us were the roles to be reversed.
In my earlier article about tornado disinformation, I pointed out that the author cherry picked deadly tornadoes after 1950. Here is why.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/severeweather/tornadoes.html#history
If you include pre-1950 tornadoes, the claimed global warming link won’t fool even the densest true believers.
There have been about 15,000 Americans killed in car accidents so far this year. You are thirty times more likely to be killed by a car than by a tornado.
The ongoing and desperate effort to blame weather on global warming gets increasingly pathetic every day.
The deadliest year for tornadoes in the U.S. was 1925, when 794 people were killed, according to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. Yesterday’s Joplin twister is tied with a 1953 Flint, Michigan, tornado as the single deadliest in records going back to 1950.
The 1925 Tri-State Tornado killed at least 695 people. Remarkably, people actually kept records prior to 1950.
Sea surface temperatures in the Gulf are now 3 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the pre-1970 average, said Kevin Trenberth, distinguished senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
Good call Kevin. Unisys shows Gulf SSTs well below normal. 2C below normal in Louisiana. The US is surrounded by unusually cold water.
Literally. The middle school district track meet was rained delayed last Wednesday until today, and looking out the window it looks like a repeat for this afternoon.
A massive thunderstorm is headed their direction.
http://www.accuweather.com/us/radar/sir/mo_/radar.asp?play=true
This stays at the top until Saturday. My thought is that there isn’t any question this year that the two top teams are playing. What do you think? Messi or Shrek?
Barcelona is travelling two days early because of the volcanic ash cloud.
