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Posted by D Sherman [72.47.9.228] on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 16:23:05 :
In Reply to: Can't remember weather this bad 2 yrs. in a row posted by Jim Hauls! [205.144.211.106] on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 15:51:47 :
I'd say it's been pretty moderate in the Northwest -- a long, wet winter but not super cold and no really big storms. We did have a strange setup here a week ago for a few days with a strong east wind blowing through Wallace, and a very strong early monsoon bringing lots of moisture up from the Gulf across the Great Basin and into the Columbia basin. That was due to a big slow-moving low off the coast that eventually made its way east and turned into the storm that caused all those tornadoes.
I suppose it all depends on where you are. Every year there's some place that gets the worst weather they've ever had. Even the old-timers who are alive today don't remember the bad blizzards and droughts that the old-timers who were old when I was a boy used to talk about. From what the climatologists say, the 20th century was unusually calm everywhere, weather-wise, and even if we just go back to having "normal" weather it will seem pretty harsh to those of us who grew up during an unnaturally calm spell.
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