Weather Patterns Gone Crazy

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) March 22, 2010 -- With climate warming high on the global agenda, the United States of America have just gone through the worst and coldest winter in the past 25 years. According to the National Climatic Data Centre it is also the 19th wettest winter ever recorded.

The United States now must settle into its tornado season, where a 79-year old man, sheltering in his single storey wood-frame home, has become the first victim. Two other tornadoes caused minor damage in central Florida. One person was also wounded as another tornado ripped through Haines City, Florida, destroying four condos and damaging fifteen others.

Up to four inches of rain was predicted, along the Mid-Atlantic coast, combined with the melting of the winter’s major snowstorms. With the soil already saturated from the heavy snowstorms, flooding is anticipated.

However, further to the north of the continent, David Phillips, a senior climatologist with Environment Canada, alerted the population to potential ‘horrific’ water shortages, insect infestations and wildfires this summer, due to Canada experiencing its warmest and driest winter on record. Phillips blamed El Nino for the warm winter weather and the severe loss of arctic sea ice last fall.

The winter season in Canada has over the past 63 years, on average, increased by 2.5degrees centigrade per annum.
On one of the world’s driest continents, Australia in the southern hemisphere, is slowly emerging from what scientists have called the ‘one in a thousand years drought’.

Over the past 8 years, the Australian continent has experienced the worst drought in living memory, with over half of Australia’s farmland in the brutal grip of drought conditions.

The Murray-Darling river system, which receives 4% of Australia’s water and provides three-quarters of the water consumed nationally, was already at 54% below the previous record minimum, as far back as 2006. The drought information on the Murray and Darling River systems still shows the mighty river to be in very poor condition.

Water management expert at the University of Adelaide, Mike Young, notified Reuters that Australia's long-term climate was changing. "When the drought breaks we will not return to cooler, wetter conditions. It is the worst type of drought because we are not expecting to return back to the old regime. The last half of last century was much wetter. What we seem to have done is ... built Australia on the assumption that it was going to be wetter, and we haven't been prepared to make the change back to a much drier regime."

About Weather Patterns Gone Crazy
For more information:http://www.tropicpost.com/upside-down-weather/

### Dr Wendy Stenberg-Tendys and her husband are CEO's of YouMe Support Foundation (http://youmesupport.org) provide high school education grants for children who are without hope. You can help in this really great project by taking a few minutes to check out the Sponsor a Student program at Win a Resort (http://winaresort.com).

cyclone Ului     tomas hits Fiji     tropical cyc     Tropical cyclone tomas