Just amazing...a thunderstorm in MI on February 5th.

[roamer65]

Nah...there's no such thing as "global warming".:sarcasm:

[SoCalDem]

1. In northern Indiana (Michigan City) in 1975, we had thunder & lightning

and snow..in december..

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

2. In the past week we have had

Snow
a LOT of snow
warmer weather
still more snow
thunderstorm
fog

This is in northern Illinois. Strangest winter weather I've seen in the nearly 20 years I've lived here.

[madrchsod]

3. i`ve been here 61 years

and this used to be normal. the last 20 or so years the weather has changed a bit...

[murielm99]

4. Amen to that.

I think this is the first "normal" winter we have had here since about 1985.

It is possible that we were in an abnormally warm period for twenty years or so. It may be cyclical rather than related to global warming.

The winters around here were like this year's winter when I was a kid, too. I lived in Sterling then. After we moved into a larger city, I did not notice the weather quite as much. I certainly noticed it when I came back here for the winter of 1978-9!

[Doctor Cynic]

5. I'm in Southern Ontario, and I heard lightening and flashes a few hours ago.

That really shocked me, to say the least.

[BadgerLaw2010]

6. Wait 24 hours, you'll have a foot of snow.

[knitter4democracy]

7. Yeah, that was pretty odd. We got 8" on Friday, it's raining now, it'll snow tomorrow.

I remember winters like this when I was a kid but happening later in the season--rain, snow, rain happening in late Feb. or March, not now.

I like the term global weirding. It's sure making Michigan's weather weird. That drought last summer was almost as bad as, what was it, '86, '88? That really bad summer around in there.

[Earth_First]

8. We had a fairly big thunderstorm last night in Western, NY (Rochester)....

They are forecasting 3" of rain beginning this afternoon into Wednesday morning. Combined with the snow melt, and the anticipated ice jamming from the local rivers and tributaries. We've been keeping an eye on the hydrological station in the next town, the creek behind our house is forecast to rise 2.3 feet by Thursday morning.

[LiberalHeart]

9. Same thing here in Ohio overnight. Warm temps today.

[Jeffro40]

10. It is NOT "evidence" of Global Warming.

Don't get me wrong, there IS evidence, but a T-Storm in MI (where I live also) is not such an indicator. It's 48 degrees here - yes, warmer than normal, but what wasn't mentioned is that it's been colder and there has been a lot more snow than last winter, or the one before.

Last year we were doing yard work on Christmas. We just had a massive snow storm, and also just came out of a 2-week deep freeze.

Single events like this are not evidence of global warming, and it discredits the true science by claiming such things.

[livetohike]

11. Thunderstorming here in W. Pa and raining really hard

for the past five hours.

[Squatch]

12. A T-storm in a single state is not evidence of GLOBAL warming

[onenote]

14. thank you

these "the weather is unusual today so its global warming" posts are stupid and counterproductive. Focusing on the weather for a single day in a single place proves nothing and muddles the debate. I'll show you: the record high temperature for Feb 5 in Lansing Michigan was 61 degrees ---in 1890. And the record low: 21 below -- in 1918.

[Snarkturian Clone]

15. These posts pop up every few weeks.

They make us all look bad. It's unseasonably warm: OMG Global Warming!!!11

There's plenty of evidence without resorting to pulling out a single day and freaking out about it.

Makes me wonder what people did during this year:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_without_a_summer

[Raven]

13. Here in SW NH this winter we've had more sleet/freezing rain

storms than I can ever remember. Just not cold enough for an old fashioned snow storm and this ice is a real pain.