Anyone experiencing weird weather since the earth quake?

[jn2375]

I get the feeling there's more happening on this planet then we know.
Anyone have the link to the Guardian article a few months back where they ran a story about our Dept of Defense predicting major global upheaval in the near future? I remember it was terrifying reading.

[Jo March]

1. In NC we are having springlike weather

and I heard that it snowed in the UAE.

I shouldn't have watched "The Day After Tomorrow."

[brainshrub]

4. Yeah, it's to warm.

But I don't think it's b/c of the quake.

[annarbor]

30. 55 degrees in Detroit tomorrow....

Believe me, that is totally unheard of for New Year's Eve!

Happy New Year's to all!

Ann Arbor

[radfringe]

44. I shouldn't have watched "The Day After Tomorrow."

we watched it this past weekend... gave me the creepy-jeepys considering the quake and tsunami...

my partner quipped after watching the movie -- "if a butterfly flapping it's wings in China supposedly causes a hurricane in the atlantic -- all I can say is that the quake/tsunami is one big f***ing butterfly..."

but weather-wise -- we've had a very wet spring/summer/fall -- I think locally it's 1/2" short of the record for rainfall

winter so far has been dry -- we didn't have our first measurable inch of snow until day after Christmas

temps have been swinging from single digits to the 40's in a given week

[Skidmore]

2. We've been having weird weather for the last

3 years--warmer and drier winters, overly wet springs and early summers, and cooler summers.

[jayfish]

3. Funny You Should Bring That Up.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1109045&mesg_id=1109686

Jay

[Behind the Aegis]

5. Very temperate here

The weather here in Oklahoma is very nice, albeit windy as hell! But, it is always windy here!

[ArkDem]

6. The temperature is different here almost every day.

[Trailrider1951]

7. How about 8" of snow in Angleton, Texas

40 miles SOUTH of Houston:

[chaska]

8. Jesus, the weather we've had this week in CA.

Unbelievably heavy rain and wind and hail.

[warrior1]

10. Sacramento weather

started real early in September, no indian summer this year. Rain, cold and tons of wind. This isn't right.

[zann725]

42. Yeah, the heaviest rain I can remember...in a LONG time.

n/t

[HuskiesHowls]

9. It hasn't been just since the earthquake

Here in central Iowa, its currently 63°. Normal high is 29°, and the record was set in 1965 of 63. All this week, highs have been in the 40's and 50's--very abnormal. The weather here has been strange for a long time.

Here is a statement from an agricultural climatologist from Ia State University about windier conditions:
"... but over the past few years the trend is to more wind. This
is likely because of the general warming (global warming
since 1972) that, simply put, leaves us with more energy on
the Earth and as the energy tends to be non-uniform in
distribution, greater temperature differences and hence
greater winds and increasingly erratic weather (as long as
the warming continues). "

But, gee...the current administration claims there is NO global warming.

[Mabeline]

11. Yep..here in KY..it's in the 60's and

the sun rise seems a bit later than usual too...but maybe that's just me and paranoia.

[MuseRider]

12. Gonna be 70 degrees today

in NE Kansas. Wind chills were -11 last week but today, 70 degrees. This is not terribly atypical, to have some warm weeks in winter but it really has not been cold yet except for last week. Wind is mighty, 45-50 MPH gusts but again, this is the prairie.

[trotsky]

13. 45 degrees and rainy

But I'm in Minneapolis. We should be below 20 degrees easily and have snow on the ground, but we have neither.

[Oreo]

15. Rain in December

It's depressing. My 2 year old wants to build his first snowman and we've only gotten about 1/4"-1/2" at a time.

It's not supposed to rain in Minneapolis in late December!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

21. Right, this is Portland weather!

And I was wondering whether I'd be able to stand the long, snowy winters again when I moved back here last year.

[conflictgirl]

14. It's all over the place

The past couple weeks, we had record cold temps and lots of snow here in Michigan. We had actual temps below zero some nights recently. Today, it's a high in the mid 40s.

Sorry if someone's already posted it, but I think the article you want is here: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1153513,00.html

[newyawker99]

16. Hi conflictgirl!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[jn2375]

19. Thanks! That's the one I was talking about!

[Ariana Celeste]

36. Exactly the same deal in Indiana! eom

[King_Crimson]

45. Last week in Fort Wayne...

10" snow...wind chill-20. Right now, 8:39 a.m. on 12-31...50 degrees, only remnants of snow are piles where people shoveled last week and it is drizzling. To say this is weird weather is putting it mildly. :shrug:

[nascarblue]

17. We had a tornado in California!

We got seven inches of rain in one night.

[Shopaholic]

18. In South Carolina we had an ice storm on Sunday--tomorrow it

will be in the 70's here.

[idiosyncratic]

20. Rain in Los Angeles set all-time record. n/t

[Blue Gardener]

22. 62 degrees - In Iowa - On December 30

Yep, that's pretty unususal.

[greendog]

23. Snow, snow, snow...

...no problems here (NW Montana).

[deminks]

24. 72 here in Kansas today

Partly cloudy, very windy. Usually it is in the 30's or 40's with snow possible. We are supposed to have thunderstorms here on Saturday which is very unusual.

[BeTheChange]

25. Weather related articles

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index20.htm

[ignatius 2]

26. -6 in Indiana on 12-26 bu it will be in the high 50's tomorrow,12-31. Also

I heard that there was a tornado yesterday in LA. Anybody see the movie The Day After? I seem to recall it all began with a tornado in L A.

[shesemsmom]

27. Last week 23 inches of snow

this week 55 degrees and its all but gone.

[theorist]

40. Indiana weather has been awfully strange the last couple of weeks.

I've only experienced one Hoosier winter, but from what I've heard, we had the worst snow storm in 25 years (with very little precipitation prior to it). And on New Year's Eve, I won't have to wear a jacket to go outside to smoke. Very strange indeed.

[B Calm]

50. Indiana is a strange place. Have you notice the further south

you go in the state, the people have fewer teeth and protruding forheads? Very noticable in Dan Burton's district!

[rabbit2484]

28. In Madison we had our first ever air health advisory

http://nbc15.madison.com/Global/story.asp?S=2746302

It is 55 degrees right now. We've had less than two inches of snow this season, which is the lowest ever. To top it all of I can hear thunder right now!

:wtf:

[GodHelpUsAll2]

31. In Central Texas

It was sleeting and snowing last week and was between 18-30 for about 2-3 days. Today it's a balmy 60+. Lots and lots of rain lately. Texas weather has always been crazy but this takes the cake.

I also saw the Day after Tomorrow and that is the first thing I think of now when there is a weird shift in the weather. Damn movies!

[AgadorSparticus]

29. my parents live in south texas (by s. padre island) and said that

they got 1.5" of SNOW for christmas. this is unheard of. first time ever in recorded history or memory that it has ever snowed down there. I also heard on the weather channel that victoria, texas (an hr. south of houston) got a foot of snow. that is just mind blowing.

[GodHelpUsAll2]

33. The snow in

south Texas is the first that has been seen in 109 years. I was shocked when I saw it on the news. South Texas got more winter weather than north or central Texas. That is truely bizarre.

[serryjw]

32. Denver.......in the middle 50's and

beautiful.We can have a 20 degree spread in 2 days. This is crazy.

But Bushit says there is NO global warming!

[Algorem]

34. the Rove/black ops Crawford white Christmas attempt has thrown a giant

monkeywrench into the weather

[lpbk2713]

35. Go back to September.

Four hurricanes hit Florida in the same season. Three of them hit the same area in Central Florida. That never happened before in one season. We're still cleaning up and repairing to this day.

[idiosyncratic]

38. Did you ever see this about God being mad at Florida because of 2000?

[Art_from_Ark]

39. It was a record typhoon season in Japan

with 10 typhoons making landfall in the country, including 5 that hit the island of Shikoku (another record, I have heard). There was also a very late season typhoon earlier this month that, even though it was supposedly just a tropical storm when it hit the Tokyo area, produced some extremely strong winds (the strongest I've experienced in my decade+ stay in the Tokyo area) and also produced the most rapid temperature rise recorded in Tokyo (by some accounts, the temperature rose from 38 to 68 in a matter of minutes).

Right now, though, it's fairly typical end-of-the-year weather.

[DownNotOut]

37. Demand the truth from your congress people

about tis weather. They g-d damn well know what is going on here and are not telling you the truth. Remember, they work for you. If enough of us ask about this weird weather, welll start getting some answers.

DownNotOut

[ever_green]

41. Disgustingly warm.

So much for our snow. I want winter.

[fishingriver]

43. Unusual Condensation

In Missouri the weather is unseasonably warm, but then it happens here anyway. The thing that is unusul is that the condensation is so heavy that it looks like it has been raining. But we haven't had a drop of rain. All of the streets and sidewalks are covered with water and it is puddling up. It condenses when the ground is cooler than the air I understand, but this has been going on for the last two days non-stop. I have never seen this before and I remember the last 40 years well enough.

[K-W]

46. The earthquake has NOTHING to do with your weather. EOM

[rman]

47. still the weather seems a bit off

whether related to the earthquake or not.

[K-W]

48. This is the weather we are talking about here.

If im not mistaken it has a fairly long record of being frequently off.

[rman]

49. not as frequent as recent years, according to

various meteorological institutes.

[K-W]

52. Oh, of course, but that doesnt relate to this.

Climate change is real. The fact that alot of places have weather that could be described as weird has little to do with that and nothing to do with earthquakes.

Im sure if you asked the same question during any major world event alot of people would say yes. Weather is weird alot.

[Catchawave]

51. Virginia - a foot of snow Sun, 60's today! n/t