The only weather warnings missing are the hurricane and tropical storm-related ones, plus heat advisaries. Nope, no heat advisaries here - only fire weather advisaries.
Also, for those interested, here's an article on our US tornado-fest this year:
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1791Some notable statistics: There have been 102 tornadoes in the past 2 days. A couple weeks ago (Apr 14-16) there were 155 tornadoes, coming to a total of 257 tornadoes in those 5 days together. There will be a total estimate of 550 tornadoes this april. There were 267 tornadoes last april. The average april has 163.
On the bright side, however, we've had only 1 EF-4 tornado and no EF-5s, despite averaging 4-5 such tornadoes in as many as we've had so far.
This happens every goddamn spring, and it catches everyone by surprise every time. I remember a few years ago around this time, when both California and Virginia were on fucking fire and 95% of Iowa was underwater.
Yeah, this decade has had some pretty crazy weather. But it really is surprising - as mentioned in the blog I linked, the only other (tornado) outbreaks that come near this size were in may of 2003 and 2004. I also recall that only a few years ago we got a crazy flood in my area - about 16 inches of rain water in 2 days. As I remember it happened, it was because a massive storm was rolling through, then the wind suddenly stopped, leaving the storm directly above us for most of its duration. There was a river running through our yard and we're on a small hill.
I don't clearly remember anything about other fires and floods. I've only been paying any real attention to the weather recently.
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