Winter Storm Euclid Punctuates Year of Extreme Weather

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/27-5


A water vapor view of winter storm Euclid on Wednesday. Scientists say that heavy snowfall is related to increasing temperatures on the Earth's surface. (Image: NOAA)

Winter storm Euclid continues its assault on the US today as it pounds New England with heavy snow while scientists caution that monumental snowfalls are a sign of things to come.

On Christmas Day a massive swath of the country experienced weather so extreme it will likely go down in history as the worst Dec. 25 tornado outbreak on record.

[Scootaloo]

1. A curved three-dimensional mass named Euclid

Well done, whoever names this stuff. Well done.

[Berlum]

2. Watch this video clip of a Euclid-spawned tornado in downtown Mobile on Christmas Day

Deswiss first posted this youtube clip in DU's video forum. It's an amazing live broadcast. The announcers handle the ferocious intensity of the tornado all with steady alert nerves, detailed accuracy, and full-on professionalism

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[Demeter]

3. Now they are naming them?

Do I need to bring a christening gift?

[In_The_Wind]

4. I was wondering when they started having names.

In the northeast we remember storms by calling them descriptive references like the Halloween Snowstorm, etc.

[OnlinePoker]

5. I think it's the Weather Network or Weather Underground that started naming them.

Nobody else does.