this is wierd...lakes still frozen, record high temps, tornados all over...

[MnFats]

ok, i confess I'm a weather geek.
this kind of shit keeps me up at night.

i don't know if it's a sign of global warming but the tornado season comes earlier every year.
i mean, it's not unheard of here....but it still seems early..

[Deja Q]

1. 26 March 1998 - St Petersburg, MN - crippled by tornadoes.

It's not entirely unprecedented, though I wouldn't be so obtuse as to discount 'global climate change'. Yet oddities have occurred in the past (I recall reading of a hurricane as bad as Katrina was, from the early 1900s and since Katrina nobody's been trounced by equally severe hurricanes.)

Regardless, I agree the release of CO2 and other emissions needs to be reduced. Battery powered cars, light rail (powered by electricity from coal; one or two coal power plants running nonstop to provide said energy wouldn't pollute nearly as much as 300,000 cars burning petroleum fuel all the time!), and other solutions. There can be a compromise between personal freedom and environmental necessity. It's a choice. If we don't choose it, the dipshit freepers who claim "natural selection" will realize the worst irony by claiming there is nothing wrong, do nothing, then die in a catastrophe influenced by global warming.

[MnFats]

4. St. Peter, right? Gustavus Adolphus campus and all...

....blew out most of the trees on the boulevard leading from the center of town to the campus...fortunatly they had a lot of alums willing to kick in for mature trees to replace them so they didn't have a boulevard of those little sticks that pass for trees in some places.

[RevCheesehead]

2. Today, I watched "The Day After Tomorrow."

This evening, severe T-storms & a tornado in NE Wisconsin. :scared:

I hope someone listens to Al Gore.

[Beausoir]

3. Brainerd here. We live on a lake. One minute we could see the ice-fishermen,,,,

the next minute they were gone.

Sublimation? Is that the right term? It was like my entire lake turnd into dry ice....giving off thick trails of vapor.
Very cool.

[KitchenWitch]

5. I was noticing that over the past 5 or so years as well.

Now I live where tornadoes just do not happen. We get earthquakes, brush fires and mudslides instead, along with the occasional tsunami.