May 20, 2013
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Severe thunderstorms are expected for the next five days in Florida.







Monday

Partly cloudy with a chance of a thunderstorm and a chance of rain in the morning, then overcast with a chance of a thunderstorm and a chance of rain. High of 88F. Winds from the SSE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 80%.

Monday Night

Overcast with a chance of a thunderstorm and a chance of rain in the evening, then partly cloudy with a chance of a thunderstorm and a chance of rain. Low of 70F. Winds from the ESE at 5 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40% with rainfall amounts near 0.3 in. possible.

The kids are dead.

The storm shelters are becoming marginal in their ability to protect life.

Severe-storms research Tim Samaras talks about chasing tornadoes 

Photograph by Carsten Peter, National Geographic 

Jane J. Lee

National Geographic

Published May 20, 2013

...Being close to a tornado (click here) is one of those incredible, fleeting moments that sometimes you have to take a couple of seconds to take in.

You can see in detail the tornado, the wind flow; you can actually hear it. And the sounds are different. If [the tornado is] in an open field, it sounds like a waterfall. If it's in a populated area, it becomes more of a thundering sound.

And then actually even the smell of tornadoes—if you're in the right place, you get a strong odor of fresh-cut grass, or occasionally, if it's destroyed a house, natural gas. Sometimes you get that raw earth smell, similar to if you run a bulldozer over open land....

There cannot be any more sources of carbon dioxide as energy sources in the USA. This isn't resolving. To think for one minute there is any reason to believe the USA can continue to emit CO2 in the face of increasing and unrelenting danger is nothing but foolishness and disregard of human life.

That statement has nothing to do with politics, it is an affirmation of life.