Plowed...

I had to teach about lake effect snow this morning and right before class i found this clip on the web. I laughed my head off as did my students - click here to have a good laugh.

record year for tornadoes

so far we are at 291 through Feb 14! We should only be at about 60. Also we can add to this 53 more from the Feb 15-18, 2008 winter storm for a grand total of 344. Check out this graph that shows the tornado count for this year compared to recent years and climatology provided by the SPC.

Breathing Room

I finally found some time to post a couple of pics. This semester I have been ridiculously busy and I had to push a few things aside, one of which is this blog. But I found sometime this monday morning to post a couple of fun pics.

The first is from the County Market in Urbana. Read the sign closely.

The second is from the sleet we had early this morning.