[JimRed]

But if they arrive earlier there will be more of them...can’t win for losin’!

[topher]

The short of what I am saying is that a colder spring means very little cloud cover. Once conditions form for severe thunderstorms, then these storms have fuel in the form of the sun's heat because there is no cloud cover [cloud cover means cooler weather and less heat available]. Thus the storms might suddenly become more severe.

The extreme heat one finds in Death Valley, California or in parts of Arizona (days with temperatures up to 120 degrees) are brought about because these areas do not have any cloud cover -- just dry parts of the country.

No cloud cover means the heat of the sun is the on position, in a sense.

So once we start having warmer days, we may observe more clouds, and the sun's faucet to produce heat is a reduced position.

In my theory, having warmer days first produces cloud cover which in turn reduces some of the heating of the sun.