[xjcsa]

Maybe there is some benefit to global warming. ;-)

Agreed...if global warming is happening, I'm all in favor of it. I'd recommend everyone read Michael Crichton's new State of Fear; a great novel which incorporates all the views I've had on global warming for years, and more. Great book.

[Wolfstar]

So what was the weather like before TV "meteoroligists" learned to hype routine weather phenomena with names like "El Nino?"

Blue Canyon, CA, 1917.

Mount Rainier, WA, 1917

North Dakota, 1966

No date or location given.

Manhattan, NYC, NY in the late 1960's