Bad Weather in the USA

[Tokie]

Rain and snow in Jackson Hole, where we will be starting our bike tour in 2 weeks eeeek! (I'm from So Cal, where it really doesn't rain much)Last year there was barely any snow on the Jackson area mountain peaks to see. May be different this summer as we ride to Sioux Falls SD! Tokie

[Mr. Bloom]

The floods in Indiana are real. Tornados last week. I guess we're having the same spring weather that Texas had last year.

But, this afternoon will be sunny and only 82!

[Aggie_Ama]

Texas is also setting record temperatures daily, 101 yesterday in Austin. June is normally hot but the 100's don't occur on multiple days until July. We are already on mandatory Stage 2 drought water schedule in my neighborhood. Every county in the area is under a burn ban due to the wind and extremely dry conditions.

[mimitabby]

last week was the coldest ever on record week in June for Seattle.

[dachshund]

Just plain old hot around San Francisco, but it's normal for this time of year. More wind than usual, I'd say. But the fires did start real early this year. That's our big worry is fire season, followed by floods in the winter.

[sundial]

I've wondered about our Indiana members. I hope no one has flood damage. The Silvers are ok, but how are the rest?

[Beane]

lots of flooding here in WI too. i'm fine (while i hate living on the top of a hill when biking, it can be useful at times). hope others have fared as well as i have.

[HoosierGiant]

I've wondered about our Indiana members. I hope no one has flood damage. The Silvers are ok, but how are the rest?

We're in east-central Indiana. Lots of rain and day after day of storms, one death in the county due to flooding, but nothing even close to what they're dealing with southwest of here after 10.94 inches of rain last weekend. My prayers go out to them. (I sandbagged for a week in Quincy, Illinois, during the 500-year flood of the Mississippi in 1992 -- this type of thing is absolutely devastating.)

Locally, Knightstown was hit with 100 mph straight-line winds in the first round of storms; tiny little Carthage saw a tornado dance through two days later. The June 4 and May 31 entries here -- http://bicycleeyes.wordpress.com/ -- give one a feel for the damage.

[emily_in_nc]

last week was the coldest ever on record week in June for Seattle.

And the hottest in NC (four 100+ days in a row -- in freaking June! It's not even officially summer yet!)

Mother Nature must be very, very mad at us.

[Trek420]

Mother Nature must be very, very mad at us.

and she bats last

[Tuckervill]

And now she's beating up on Boy Scouts:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/0...her/index.html

Karen