Please allow me to interject my feelings about Mother Nature

Upslope? More like up-slop!

 

I have a friend who recently moved to Kalispell, Montana.
Another fried drove a truck out there for him. I asked the second guy how was his trip to Montana.
"Fucking cold!"

 

Moved to Flagstaff in late May after graduation. Around June 20, we had a low temp of 17 degrees and I was wondering what the fuck I had gotten myself into. Definitely more Colorado than Arizona...

 

The 2022 DU law school commencement was on May 21. On the 19th it was 86 degrees. It snowed all day on the 20th and we had about four inches near campus. All of Jrs. graduation photos have snow in the background.

 

Hey, we're finally having spring. Only six weeks late.

 

Meanwhile in western Canuckistan.

 

Good luck to everybody in the lower South today. We had storms firing up all night and they're headed your way. I see a lot of tornado chasers are headed to Mississippi and Alabama this morning.

 

Yeah, that stunned me when they said it was a Level 3 risk. There's a sweet spot, temperature-wise, for tornadoes (at least more than the odd spin-ups you get with thunderstorms), and we're already past it. It's probably too hot for the big EF-4 type long track tornadoes we get March, April and early May. Still, hail storms and straight line winds are no fun.

 

It is insane. The only time I’ve ever heard of summer tornadoes around here is if they are spun off from a tropical storm.

 

I drove through Pell City this morning, just east of Birmingham. They were diverting traffic on the main road through town because there's a Matthew McConaghey movie filming at an old school steak house there. As I drove through the detour I could see a church parking lot covered up with eighteen wheelers and various production vehicles. I couldn't help but chuckle, thinking about all the people from Cali who were about to experience some good old Suhthern thunderstorms. One woke me up at about 5 a.m., and they keep firing up and coming through. The whole area is under a tornado watch until 5 this afternoon.

Welcome to the Sunny South, y'all.