It's friggen HAILING here!

[Taverner]

May I remind you that "here" is the SF Bay Area?

[freshwest]

1. Did in the northwest a few weeks ago. Now the wind's howling. Tornadoes next

[Taverner]

2. Tornadoes? On the Pacific Coast?

WTF is going on?

[freshwest]

3. Had some minor ones some years back. VERY minor. I was surprised the first thunder snow we had, too.

The weather has been kinda creepy, actually. Going from warm and muggy for a few hours, no wind-- TOO still, dark and no sunshine for weeks. It's been a very dark spring in my particular area, not enough sunlight to make a shadow for I don't know how long.

But it beats living down south and being flooded, blown away by tornadoes, hit with hail that breaks windows and kills things or being struck by lightning.

I particularly like what I am guessing you're used to, as perhaps the typical SF Bay weather is cool, foggy, etc. That's the advantage of a maritime climate, and how it moderates the temperatures year around, not too hot, not too cold. Having grown up in a very hot and muggy climate, I never tire of it.

The first time I was pelted with COLD water from the sky on a sunny day, and stepped in the COLD waters of the Pacific, was a really shock. The novelty has not worn off yet. Where I grew up the rain was warm, almost erotic the way it felt on the skin, like a warm shower, and so were all the waterways.

Of course you know when it warms up really good, we'll probably have a nice string of earthquakes. So just enjoy the hail since it portends warmer days to come.

[Taverner]

5. Well that sounds like Portland, or in my experience, Corvallis

Go Beavs!

Anyway, it would be like that every August/September

East Bay, however, is usually pre-Summer around here, which means 70, scattered clouds and a light wind

[trof]

4. This has nothing to do with Global Climate Change.

Just keep moving.
Move along.
Nothing to see here.
:shrug:

[Taverner]

6. Yeah! How can it be WARMING when it's COLD???

Whadda they want us to think? AH HA HA HA....

Seriously, Carl Sagan nails it in that final interview with Ted Turner, playing in DU Political Videos now...

He said the warming would lead to an eventual winter-like condition for a decade or more...

[freshwest]

7. That would be if that underwater thingie happened, and they say it is happening right now.

So kiss northern Europe goodbye.

Mexico may want to reinforce the border fence from their end.

Yellowstone will make all of this look like kindergarten.

Just keep your spirits up until this time a week from today.

All bets are off, then.

[Taverner]

8. Yep - and there goes the Eastern Seaboard

Or any chance of growing anything around there

Also consider that would repel the hot air to Asia, Africa and possibly the West Coast, with a backlash until it settles

Of course, turbulence as you've never seen. It'll be a miracle if we can keep any planes in the sky during that time

[trof]

10. 'Climate Change' is more accurate than 'Global Warming'.

Although both are happening.
:-(

[freshwest]

16. I stumbled on a harsh assessment of this on a DU thread which referenced a writer named...

Derrick Jensen. He wrote ENDGAME and some other works.

http://www.endgamethebook.org/

http://derrickjensen.org/purchase.html#endgame1

I'd read Jared Diamond's 'Collapse' but Jensen stripped the distance of history away with his book. It appears that mankind trying to keep its collective consciousness off what we know intuitively is an global ecological collapse from which there will be no return.

I also read the works of David Korten, but Jensen also show there are other steps to take. Korten founded YES! magazine, I believe which is full of alternatives.

[Inchworm]

9. Rumors of snow flurries expected here in NC tomorrow night

Insane!!

:brr:

[JanMichael]

13. what?

where? I just googled Asheville weather..are you near Boone?

[Inchworm]

14. Yea, near Boone

The person spreading these horrors is near my dad's property which is very close to where TN, VA, and NC touch.

Been busy so not looked up the truth yet :)

:hi:

[freshwest]

15. It snowed here near the Pacific a few weeks ago, but didn't stick. Of course it does higher up.

Where is the snow expected, in the mountains? Or the lowlands?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

11. Yeah, Silicon Valley, white hail the size of frozen peas

The cat saw it coming down and the noise made her run under the bed and hide until it stopped. After it did, she came creepin' up with a "What the hell was THAT" look on her face.

:-)

[freshwest]

17. Noisy and it stings, doesn't it? I remember my cattle running like crazy because of it.

That and those little dirt devil tornadoes.

[pink-o]

12. I was in Petaluma when that happened!

On my way from Starbucks to the gym around 8:15am. I just figured it was North Bay weirdness, don't know if it came down near my house in the City. Then just read Amerigo got it SJ.

Climate change deniers are idiots!