In the past 5 days:

- A massive storm with 100mph winds tore through Tulsa, leaving 200,000 without power.
- A freak hail storm injured nearly 100 ppl in Colorado
- 95mph winds hit the Houston airport
- A large tornado struck the Denver area.

Climate change in real time.

Nate Morris I love following you on twitter, but equating normal severe weather events during peak season to climate change is a bit silly. These are all normal events. The storm in Red Rocks was not a freak event. They were in a severe thunderstorm watch at 4:25-10PM. Very well forecasted.

Storm Tracker Mike Scantlin Nate Morris Are there other examples of Red Rocks/front range hail events in summer we can point at to show this is normal?

I’m genuinely curious as I only started becoming interested in the science of meteorology in the last few years.

I agree with your statement based on what I…

Brett Gill Nate Morris I’m sure there is plenty of data available, as the Colorado Springs area has golfball+ hail events almost yearly, if not more frequent. Here’s a screenshot from a quick google search:

Storm Tracker Mike Scantlin Brett Gill Nate Morris We are having our wettest June ever and we don’t normally have large hail at night in the metro area.