Global climate change, global schlimate change
The day before the Dexter Tornado hit Dexter, Michigan on March 15, 2012, Anne and I were installing a new garage door opener in shorts and t-shirts. Swarmed by mosquitoes, we were forced to slather up with bug spray because it go so bad. The next day, after hitting a record-breaking 75 degrees, we watched as never-before-seen-this-early F3 tornado took out a neighborhood less than a mile from our house.
This year, during the same week, we had a low of -7F breaking a record set in 1896. We also hit a record amount of snowfall for this area.
The following photos aren’t to show you that the earth is getting warmer or colder. They are to show you that we are experiencing dramatic, unprecedented swings in weather; unpredictable, extreme weather events.
The Dexter tornado of 2012 was record-setting. The cold and snow this year are record-setting. It’s not global warming. It’s global climate change.
And it’s real.
All photos by Anne C. Savage, special to Eclectablog. Our coverage of the 2012 Dexter Tornado is HERE and HERE (interactive panoramic image) and HERE.
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‘Nuff said.
