Comments on: 5 Weather Events Worth Chatting About

By: J

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:28:14 +0000

Thank you for pointing that out, about Kenny and Renny, Bethy. It might be stranger than the weather.

By: Bethy

Bethy — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:26:00 +0000

What’s with the copy and paste comments by ‘renny’ and ‘kenny’? With suspicious links in their names??

By: loomis

loomis — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:03:00 +0000

Spearfish, SD has the record for fastest/greatest temperature change. In 1943, they went from -4F to +45F in only two minutes. Later, they dropped 58 degrees in 27 minutes.

By: Steve S

Steve S — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:23:00 +0000

Reminds me of 1965 when I was 11 years old. After a squall line had moved though SE Texas all we kids ran outside after the storm had passed. To our amazement the streets and gutters were swimming with foot-long mudpuppies. They were everywhere! There was no flooding to have brought them in and, in all our exploring of the ditches and woods, we had never found any before in the area. Never saw any again after that but it sure was fun at the time gathering them by the buckets full. I know that they were sucked up by a tornado, carried for miles then dumped on us. Something I’ll never forget.

By: erichansa

erichansa — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:25:00 +0000

Interesting reading, and nice to see all 5 on 1 page =)

By: n2y2

n2y2 — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:08:00 +0000

To those of you who use these events to take a jab at global warming:

Many of those events happened during the Little Ice Age, another period of extreme weather. It does not disprove the existence of a different climate event now.

Even if humans have done nothing to cause the changing climate, we could still make it worse. It would be like double-bouncing someone on the trampoline. Sure they were already bouncing, but you can make them go much higher.

By: kenny

kenny — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:45:00 +0000

No doubt about it, raining animals would be cause for concern!

By: renny

renny — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:41:00 +0000

Who knew weather could be so fascinating?

By: Dawn

Dawn — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:11:00 +0000

While we don’t get huge fluctuations in temp in NZ, the weather can change on a dime due to where the wind is coming from (North = warm, South = pole). Being islands as well, we kinda make our own weather, and can’t count on the weather report for more than a few hours to one day out.

By: James

James — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:55:00 +0000

Here in southern Alberta, Canada drastic changes in temperature are not that uncommon in the winter. When warm Chinook winds blow in off the mountains the temperature can change from -20C to +10C or higher in a matter of a few minutes. That’s why I never shovel my sidewalk, I just wait for the wind to do it for me.