2014/2015 weather

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up for two down for four, 58 right now 66 prolly tomorrow and then down to low 40's for a bit.

Whee , kinda like a rollercoaster !

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Last night on April 3rd - 22°F

Slowly but surely , warmth will come.
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Got down to 31 degrees last night and we have several inches of snow 4/5/2015.

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Above-normal temperatures expected across much of central, southern and eastern U.S.

A frontal boundary will create a strong temperature difference on Monday between the northern tier states and much of the central, southern and eastern U.S. Temperatures are forecast to be anywhere from 5 to 20 degrees or more above normal

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The worst severe weather outbreak so far this year will threaten lives and property across the central U.S. and includes a risk of tornadoes on Wednesday.


A "potentially volatile" event is shaping up for the middle of this week, according to AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Becky Elliott.
Lives and property will be threatened as this outbreak will yield destructive tornadoes and numerous thunderstorms with damaging winds, large hail, blinding downpours and frequent lightning.
The worst of the outbreak is taking aim at portions of Texas, Oklahoma, the eastern half of Kansas, northern Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois and Iowa.

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Ours is coming Thursday....

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Central US Severe Storms Threaten 30 Million Wednesday; Tornado Risk Spans Texas to Iowa

New storms will erupt Wednesday afternoon from central and eastern Kansas, southward to central Texas.


According to AccuWeather Assistant Director of Storm Warnings Andrew Gagnon, "Soon after the new batch of storms erupts, the threat of large hail and wind gusts to 70 mph will be common late Wednesday afternoon and evening."


The NWS Storm Prediction Center expects the potential for severe weather from southern Texas to western New York on Thursday. The area of greatest concern covers much of the southern Great Lakes, Midwest, Tennessee River Valley and Mississippi River Valley. In these areas, large hail, damaging winds and a few tornadoes are possible.

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The National Weather Service is reporting a large tornado on the ground in northern Illinois and is urging residents to seek shelter immediately.

[chad]

In Streator, my cousin lives there, we will be under warning here (further south) in 30 minutes likely. Sun came out for a long time, added fuel, hopefully it will ahve been dark enough to get it to peeter out.

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Severe weather: Tornadoes hit Iowa, Illinois, Ohio


One person has died as a result of storms in Fairdale, Illinois [ A second person has been killed by the storms. ]

Now that we are into April, tornado season should really start to ramp up. While March can be an active month, in the average year, April will see double the tornadoes that March does. It also starts the 3 month stretch for the most tornado prone time period for the United States. April, May, and June typically account for two thirds of the annual number of tornadoes in the Lower 48.

Mississippi , Alabama and Georgia might get hit !

Alabama and Georgia might get hit !

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Mighty Rio Grande Now a Trickle Under Siege

In a perfect world, his crops could consume up to four feet of water in a growing season, and in flush times 15 years ago, the canal gave him most of that. “We’d double-crop — do onions and come back with corn after that,” he said. “We used to grow a lot of chiles, a lot of jalapeños. When water was abundant you could do a variety of things.”

That is a pleasant memory. Today Mr. Skov fallows a fifth of his fields, and canal water that once flowed from March to October arrives in June and vanishes as early as August. He makes up the deficit with two inches of treated water from the city sewage plant and a deluge of salty groundwater, brought up by once-abandoned wells that his grandfather dug, and that he has brought back to life.

The brackish water poisons the plants even as it saves them, cutting his yield by as much as a fifth. “It hurts germination, plant vigor, growth, root vigor, water absorption — everything negative that can happen to a plant,” he said.


Then again, the alternative is worse.

Is everything good ?

... or do things seem to be changing ...