La Nina Year

[Rick]

Man, these MFing La Nina years. If you were one of the Oklahomies, you were probably watching last night's storms on tv, and noticing said storms doing extremely un-tornado-like things... Oklahoma storms that produce tornados generally move from southwest to northeast, often taking the occasional right turn; tornados circulate cyclonically, ie. counter clockwise. Some of last night's storms were moving northwest to southeast, several made not just left turns, but basically u-turns. Some have just sat in basically one place for fifteen minutes. Some had anti-cyclonic (clockwise) rotation. Granted, these things aren't unheard of, but they are rare, and for so many of these anomalies to be happening all in the same storm system, we'll, that is rare.

[volcaniclastic]

I've never heard the term "Oklahomies" before, and it pleases me that this exists.

In mid-northern Canada, we've got near-record droughts. It's May 3, and we've already had some wildfires. A few weeks ago, I WALKED halfway across the river, on spots that I'm convinced haven't been dry in decades. We didn't have very much snow this winter, and I think it's rained lightly maybe 5 times since Spring started.

I'm anticipating the entire country being on fire again if things don't get wet sooner rather than later!

[Corvus]

unseasonably warm here in NY. Breaking 90 this early, this regularly isn't unheard of, but it's pretty early. Things are mostly fine, just oppressively warm and muggy while it barely rains. It seems safe to say this won't be a great year, not that every year isn't worse than the last.