Weather heating up, then cooling off abruptly
Perfect movie fare for interesting weather
At 6:15 this morning, it was 78 degrees and getting hotter. All day it’s been a powerful, hot, humid wind from the South. Long about 1 or 2 am there should be a cold, dry air mass moving in from the North, colliding with the damp, hot, fast-moving mass. And things might get interesting. I’ll have a powerful flashlight and my clothes where I can lay hands on them in a hurry.
But in the meantime, my ghoulish sense of humor demands watching one of the most craptastic disaster movies of all time… Twister! written by everybody’s favorite med-school dropout climate-skeptwit novelist turned presidential advisor, Michael Crichton! Yeah, baby! More movie cliches per minute and and a soundtrack that just can’t be beat!
I especially like the part at the end where they survive an F5 tornado, unprotected, by strapping themselves to a pipe in the ground. That’s so like the author who posited digging dinosaur DNA from fossil mosquitoes and having the resulting monsters eat a lawyer and an industrial spy. But far more importantly, there’s Helen Hunt as the (way sexy but insane) obsessed scientist, in almost every scene. Might have to scoop me up some chocolate ice cream.
UPDATE: next morning, looks like Iowa got off with no damage, and Illinois with some canceled flights, downed trees and snapped power lines, one fatality. Nothing at all happened in Bloomington/Normal, which all but confirms my theory that State Farm has learned how to control the weather in a several-mile radius around their world headquarters. Wisconsin had quite a few tornados. From the looks of the NOAA satellite and radar though, you wouldn’t want to be in some parts of Missouri right now. 
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