More Extreme Weather

The national news tonight was talking about more extreme weather.  In Alaska one town has had 20 feet of snow in the last 3 weeks and the national guard just showed up to help.  Also a massive, and unusual, amount of snow has shut down parts of Austria.  Next they had had video clip of snow flurries in India in a town that has never seen snow.  Meanwhile it was 50 degrees and sunny AGAIN in Minnesota which us allowing for unheard of golfing in January.

And in Texas they have been suffering through the worst drought in recorded history and today they finally got some rain in Houston....but it was TOO MUCH rain that came TOO fast.  The news showed video of cars floating down the roads in downtown Houston.

Houston roads were flooded and thousands of residents lost power on Monday after powerful thunderstorms plowed through the area, with a possible tornado damaging and shutting down a nearby mall. Several inches of rain fell in the drought-stricken area over a two-hour period. Roads rapidly flooded and drivers became stranded on major arteries that connect the city’s sprawling neighborhoods and suburbs. In Texas City, about 40 miles southeast of Houston, a possible tornado damaged the roof and wall of the Mall of the Mainland. The building was evacuated and shut. In North and West Texas, the National Weather Service said, a steady downpour will drop an inch or two of much-needed rain. Texas got an estimated 14.89 inches of rain in 2011, compared with a normal average of 29.39 inches. 

Here;  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/us/texas-much-needed-downpour-comes-with-a-downside.html

The weather folks seem to be at a loss to explain all the strange happenings that seem to be happening almost every single day.

What's going on?.....Must be global warming...oops...sorry.....meant to say climate change.