A season of increasingly bizarre and violent weather has continued with devastating tornadoes in the United States on May 4-5, with the storm system rebuilding on May 6. These storms have devastated communities in Kansas, Missouri, Georgia and Tennessee, and have taken 38 lives.
This is not the first episode of unusual and extremely violent weather to strike in recent months. There have been so many incidents in the past six months, that it begins to appear that we are entering a period of violent and changing climate. The combination of reduced oceanic circulation, high levels of solar activity, and more and more heat being retained in the lower atmosphere, is causing this change.
As a result, this winter saw extraordinary cold in Siberia, people freezing to death in Bangladesh, a devastating blizzard across the eastern US that began as a weather system in the Pacific and ended over Europe, unusual ice storms in Canada and New York in April, and now a severe and continuing disturbance in the US Midwest. In addition, the first tropical storm of the season formed in April, two months ahead of the normal beginning of the watch season.
At present, the severe Midwestern storm system appears to be reforming.
Whitley Streiber's Unknown Country 07-May-2003 (yes, that Whitley Streiber)
