MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

“With four months still to go in 2011, the United States has already tied its yearly record for the number of weather disasters with an economic loss of $1 billion or more, the U.S. government reported Wednesday.

With the bulk of the hurricane season ahead and winter storms after that, National Weather Service Director Jack Hayes said 2011 could surpass the record, first set in 2008.

‘I don’t think it takes a wizard to predict 2011 is likely to go down as one of the more extreme years for weather in history,’ he told journalists on a conference call.

The ‘new reality’ is that both the frequency and the cost of extreme weather are rising, making the nation more economically vulnerable and putting more lives and livelihoods at risk, Hayes said.” Read more.

US Sees Growing Losses From Extreme Weather – “The United States has already tied its yearly record for billion-dollar weather disasters and the cumulative tab from floods, tornadoes and heat waves has hit $35 billion, the National Weather Service said Wednesday. And it’s only August, with the bulk of the hurricane season still ahead. ‘I don’t think it takes a wizard to predict 2011 is likely to go down as one of the more extreme years for weather in history,’ National Weather Service Director Jack Hayes told journalists on a conference call. The agency’s parent organization, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, launched a campaign Wednesday to better prepare Americans for violent weather.” Read more.