Preliminary count indicates 11 tornadoes hit Dallas area Saturday evening,

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according to National Weather Service.

That was just the Dallas area.
Weather officials also confirmed tornadoes striking the Texas towns Ovilla, Farmersville and Rowlett - which neighbors Garland. Images uploaded to social media showed a massive tornado near Rowlett and at least one destroyed structure.

sadly, 7 people were killed on this Christmas holiday weekend there.

The tornadoes also killed six people in Tennessee and one each in Arkansas and Alabama, bringing the three-state total to 18.

this is in addition to the people killed by the previous tornadoes a couple days ago.

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1. Weird weather

I hope it's over

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2. It's been a strange winter down here so far. 75 predicted Sun. at the TN/AL line.

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3. 77 here today....I have the A/C turned on.

But we have cool down coming by Wed.
So they say....

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4. Strange winter in the Northeast as well...

Record breaking highs here in New England, I feel for folks down south. My mother in law commented that her azaleas were trying to bloom, she lives in Louisiana, and our niece swam in my MIL's pool yesterday. Chalk it up to El Niño if you wish, and it certainly is contributing, but it's been a bizarre fall/winter so far...I hope this isn't an indication that we're headed for massive snowfall like last year. 98" in our area was plenty last year!