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Nature just fucking hates us:
A STRONG SPRING LIKE STORM THIS WEEKEND WILL BRING THE THREAT FOR HEAVY RAINFALL TO PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS. THIS COMBINED WITH THE ONGOING SNOWMELT THIS WEEK WILL BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT RIVER FLOODING TO THE AREA. AS THE STRONG STORM APPROACHES THE MIDWEST ON SATURDAY...RAIN AND EVEN A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS. RAINFALL TOTALS OF FROM 1 TO 2 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY MORNING. SINCE THE 2 TO 4 INCH SOIL TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO BE AT OR JUST BELOW FREEZING...THE RAIN WILL BE UNABLE TO BE ABSORBED INTO THE SOIL AND WILL GO INTO RUNOFF INTO AREA RIVERS AND STREAMS.
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Global warming injects more energy into the system.
More heat warms the ocean, and lakes more which leads to a higher probability that humid air will drift over the continent and at this time of year that leads to warm moist air conflicting with frigid cold air.
We've seen the results locally as an ice storm, large amount of snow over short period, rapid shifts between unusually warm weather (people wearing t-shirts in late December for example)and cold weather.
It's all a bit freaky.
Down south they're seeing it as shifts between droughts, and floods.
And of course we're also seeing intensification of hurricanes, and tornadoes - both in number, and in strength.
Just before last years March tornado which struck here I recall my buddy Randy posting photos from his visit to a nearby pond. It was Spring in late February - I believe he said "Ah global warming", or something like that.
The next week we get hit with two tornadoes, and a week later a blizzard hits, and a week after that another tornado on the south west side of Springfield.
Despite all this I don't want to bring it on. We deserve the bad weather, but I hate to see people get hurt.
JP
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