Our old pal El Nino has graced us with some much needed moisture in the form of repeated snow storms over these past winter months but just look at what he's been up to of late. Pictured above is the tornado that mussed up Hammon, OK on Monday. That would be Monday, March 8th. March 8th, for pete's sake. The temp that day was in the mid 50's yet the storm was rated at F2 or F3 on the Fujita scale. Not only that, by report it stayed on ground for 30 miles and about 45 minutes. As you can tell, except for Hammon and maybe a farm house here and there, it's path was over mostly open country. The weather guys are alarmists for the most part in my eyes but they keep talking about what El Nino might have in store come tornado season. (Which BTW, is not here yet) Okay, I get it they do know what theye're doing. Their predictions have been right on about the snow amounts this winter. That fact, and the storm pictured above have my attention. When tornado season does truly arrive, when the conditions reach a state more conducive to spawning storms, you can bet I'll be keeping an eye to the sky and when that siren goes off I won't be messing around. I'm heading for shelter.
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