A blast from the past- "The disastrous weather of the summer of 2011"
Dateline-January 11, 2012, NOAA Headquarters. After the wierd weather of this past summer, NOAA and other governmental weather related departments are having to rethink a few things taken as facts over the past decade. After all, the July 4th blizzard in Pheonix caught them, well, with their pants down. Pheonix hasn't had 27 inches of snow in one event in as long as this reporter can find recorded even in the winter! ANd we all thought the term "Surfing to Death Valley" was a joke until one of the few remaining SoCal surfers actually DID it! Record lows all summer, shortages of American grown veggies due to the constant rains and frosts in July and August, and the near gale-force winds across the entire midWest have sure put the final nail in ALGore's "Man caused Global Warming " scam, didn't it? The lawsuits from the purchasers of his "Carbon Offsets" even ate up the college funds for his children. (MAN I wish we could find a little "Global Warming" today!)
Now, to be fair, seven volcanoes spewing ash into the air all May didn't help. I mean who'da thunk a volcano would be what triggered the "Big One" that finally got rid of the entire LA area? ANd all that ash (more than from the Krakatoa eruption back in 1883. Krakatoa caused a "mini ice age" that lasted 2 years, causing record cold spells, and frost into the summer, but nothing like the last summer's weather. Of course, there's no proof that Man Caused Global Warming didn't make the record cold summer a little less record breaking than it was, but we all KNOW that we wish there WAS a way to warm the globe right NOW!!
The Pacific Taifun season and the Atlantic Hurricane seasons were the most brutal on record, as well. Of course, when a Hurricane triggers snowfall that blankets the entier East Coast, it seems wierd, but by the time THAT happened in August, I think we were beyond being wierded out.
And who can forget that EF8 tornado that sucked half the bayou near New Orleans dry, causing a rain of frogs, crawdads, and alligators as far away as Chicago. And the YouTube video of the 7ft water moccasin landing on former president Obama's shoulder STILL gives the Secret Service the willies. IT scared Mr Obama so bad he quit the next day. No one has proved the rumor that Joe Biden actually rigged the entire thing! The Republicans STILL can't believe the way "Idiot Joe" managed to grow up under the pressure, making them fear he will beat the Sarah Palin/Rand Paul ticket that seems to be shaping up as the team to beat. But the Biden/Franks ticket still has a long way to go! And we've got the weather to thank for this fun.
So let's hope that the weather is a little milder THIS year. We're still recovering from the loss of California, and we don't need anything else!
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