Giving yesterday (6-8) its own thread...after a week of marginal setups, I was treated to an early birthday present! It's hard to pick the photos to upload this morning and find the words to describe what happened yesterday evening (6-8), but I'll try: Quick edits and synopsis: We awoke in Burlington, CO (with Burlington as a target). TCu formed right over the hotel and we could have literally seen the first landspout tornado from our hotel room.

Numerous interview requests streaming in re: recent tornadoes and climate change. No, climate change did not cause the recent rash of US tornadoes. Climate change does not cause any given extreme weather event. It does alter background probabilities of the PDF curve. 1/8 Analogy here is baseball during the steroid era. Was that home run due to steroids? Maybe, maybe not. Hard (impossible?) to tell only examining an at-bat. Much easier to tell when examining seasonal home runs and batting averages. 2/8