Tornado - Arlington, TX and Dallas

Had to pull over to keep from being blown away! LINK: Youtube

Meteorologist on Severe Weather: 'We Have Never Seen a Year Like This Before'

Read the transcript: http://bit.ly/isjqj7

The deadly Joplin, Mo., tornado was preceded this spring by a series of severe weather that brought devastation and death across parts of the South and Midwest. Judy Woodruff explores the science behind this year's remarkable severe weather. LINK: Youtube

LARGE TORNADO FORMS BEHIND TRAILER PARK

Recorded in Montana. LINK

Wettest States in the United States

The ten states that get the most rain every year on average with the rainiest city and place for each state plus the city that has the most rainy days per year for each state. Most people associate Washington and Oregon with rain but neither state comes close to making this list because both states are semi-desert in the eastern portions. One place on the list gets 460 inches of rain per year or about 1.2 inches of rain per day on average. How would you like to live there?

Link, Via: Neatorama

Winter weather

Many parts of the world are dealing with winter's cold - and the snow and ice that come with it. Photographers around the globe capture the beauty - and harshness - of winter. LINK

Lightning strikes over Venezuelan town half the year

A tiny and desperately poor fishing village has one fascinating draw for tourists - lightning storms light up the sky more than 160 nights each year.

Dubbed the Catatumbo Lightning, the weather phenomenon has no known cause. Scientists theorize that it could be caused by wind blowing off the Andes mountains or high levels of methane gas in the area.

A meteorologist with the Venezuelan National Air Force said the frequency of the storms isn't the only oddity. "The Catatumbo Lightning is over 90 percent cloud-to-cloud lightning," said meteorologist Ramon Velasquez. He said the storms can last all night.

"Elsewhere in the world, the duration of the storms is not more than one or two hours, however in Catatumbo, the storm begins at approximately 7 or 8 in the evening and goes on until 4 or 5 in the morning of the next day," said Velasquez.

There is a bit of tourism, but locals in the town of Congo Mirador said they hope the weather can help bring needed money. Nereida Noguera, head of Tourism for Congo Mirador, said the government hasn't done enough to entice tourists.

He said tourism money could help the residents escape dire poverty. "The lightning can be our treasure, that can lift us," said Noguera. LINK, Via: Youtube

The Dancing Weatherman

The weather in Los Angeles is so predictable, weather reporter Mark Thompson from our local Fox affiliate can just play sexy rap music and dance the day's forecast. He is one of the many reasons I love living in Los Angeles. Here's one video. Here's another, and here's yet another. He has an awesome, manly-man voiceover voice. But I like him best when he's silent. As one non-LA YouTube commenter said, "I wish my weather channel played songs that said 'bitch please.'" (That'd be this one, at 1:42.). LINK: Boingboing

Wild Weather Time-Lapse Compilation

Incredible time-lapse footage of many different types of storms forming. LINK

Famous Minnesota Winter Storms (Listed Chronologically)

Oct 31-Nov 3, 1991 Halloween Blizzard. Over 28 inches at MSP, nearly 37
inches at Duluth. Nasty windchill conditions, deep snow drifts harsh
on wildlife, many roads closed for days. Perhaps one of the largest and
longest lasting blizzards in state history.

Really glad this Halloween wasn't like that for the kids.

Harsh winters:
1995-96: Dec 8, 1995 blizzard in WC MN
Jan 10 blizzard in WC MN
Jan 17-18 blizzard in SW MN
Jan 26-29, 1996 blizzard in southern and western counties
Feb 10-11, 1996 blizzard in northern counties, Governor closed schools
Mar 23-25, 1996 blizzard in northern and central counties, Hwy 10 closed

1996-97: Nov 16-17, 1996 Blizzard in NW and WC
Dec 17-19, 1997 Blizzard in western and southern counties
Dec 20-21, 1997 Blizzard in NW
Dec 23, 1997 Blizzard in WC
Dec 31, 1997 New Year's Eve Blizzard in NW
Jan 4-5, 1997 Blizzard in western counties
Jan 9-10, 1997 Blizzard in western and southern counties
Jan 15-16, 1997 Blizzard in western counties
Jan 21-22, 1997 Blizzard in western counties
Mar 4, 1997 Blizzard in WC
Apr 5-6, 1997 Blizzard in western counties during flood fight
Total seasonal snowfall at Fargo-Moorhead 117 inches, set up worst flooding
ever.

More at the LINK

20 Amazing And Unusual Weather Phenomena

The science of weather is a fascinating one; but even more so are the flukes and irregularities that can occur within our world.
This is a list of 20 of the most amazing and unusual of those weather anomalies. LINK