it comes in pints?

Given the wildfires all around the country, some rain would be a good idea right about now. Maybe that conspiracy leaning asshat should move to Kuwait or Saudi Arabia, where it rains only a couple times annually.

Have you forgotten about the Evil Karl Rove Weather Machine™?

I guess I must have. I figured Rove had something to do with it.

It's also the first time water has melted fire... I mean fire has melted water... Oh hell, whatever.

damn, that guy would be going crazy nuts in Texas (which, last I checked, is the home of George W....), where they've been getting pounded with rain, especially the San Antonio area.

conspiracy theorists, in my experience, tend to be the male version of Crazy Cat Ladies.

Hahaha. Great analogy, Ricki.

Yeah, but why is it also raining in New Jersey? Why are they wasting rain that could fall elsewhere? Is this just to convince us there isn't any Climate Crisis™?

What's that - if they could make it rain, then there would be no climate crisis that wasn't easily solved? B-b-but... that just proves they don't want to solve it! You're in denial! March on Washington! Petitions! Halliburton!

Steve Martin doing the weather again?

Hahaha. "Sun! Sun! Sun! Sun!"

Yeah, send some of that rain to the Pacific Northwest! We needs us some wet stuff, we do.

You know, on further thought, it would have been really sweet if someone had gone all meteorologist-geek on that guy's ass and explained exactly HOW it came to rain the day after it was hot in great and stultifying detail. ("There's this front, see, and it's got a mass of cooler air that's riding up over the warmer air...")

I'm kind of a weather geek so I get a little eye-rolly whenever someone freaks out over an unusual-but-not-all-that-odd weather condition and implies it's either Teh Global Warming !!!11!!! or that it's evidence that some evil individual/corporation is actually manipulating our weather...

"It was ninety degrees yesterday with no clouds and now there are thunder storms!"

Er, it was ninety degrees this morning and now there are thunderstorms. That's Florida EVERY day from roughly June to October. [insert conspiracy reference to recounts and hanging chads here] ;-)

Hahahaha! Jeb did it! He's Minister of Weather!

With family in Florida, I can back Dave up on this. All the weather just seems closer to the ground in Broward County. The sun is about eighty feet away; and it never drizzles. Once you feel the first drop, it's OVER. It's like being sprayed with a narrow garden hose. Every drop stings.

Was this person from West Virginia? The reason I ask is that in the 1950s, some goofy-assed university scientists had a little cloud seeding project going on in Martinsburg. A generation after that Time article, the sons and grandsons of the farmers interviewed are still telling me every time there is a dry spell that the government is involved. On top of that there is an Air National Guard base in Martinsburg that flies C-130s in circular training patterns all. the. time. You can guess what the rednecks say about that.

It's so bad that farmers take the occasional pot shot at private planes - one was hit over Shepherdstown W.Va when I was a kid. I've never heard of a farmer taking a shot at a C-130, and in these troubled times that would probably earn you a one-way ticket to Gitmo, but someone is going to get hurt one day. This shit is like the Hatfields and McCoys (it is West Virginia, after all) - third or fourth generation now, with no signs of common sense stoppping it.

John, that reminds me of the lingering rumor that the Hindenburg was brought down by a Piney taking potshots. It's one of those things that I always wanted to believe could be true.

Joel - only if he was plinking squirrels with phosporous tracer rounds. ;-)

Doesn't everyone?