Why Are There Still Southern Snowbanks? Latent Heat Takes Time

Old snow piles take forever to melt. 

Every spring, we in Vermont see dirty, sad monuments to the past winter. 

They're in the form of those dirty, ugly slowly fading piles of snow at the edges of supermarket parking lots and back behind strip malls. The piles are a remaining bit of late winter grossness while trees bud and flowers bounce happily in the spring breezes nearby. 

This spring, people in the the southern United States had the rare opportunity to experience these fading remembrances of winter and they were freaking out. 

Usually when it snows in the south, it's usually a wet, heavy slop that's so close to water anyway that it melts quickly. Or it's a quick shot of fluffy, usually a couple inches at most.

This winter, a huge swath of the South, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic States got basically snowy cement in January. It was a dense mess of snow, lots of sleet, all frozen together by a round of freezing rain. 

In February, southerners freaked out this mess wasn't melting, despite temperatures occasionally poking well above freezing. The conspiracy theories swirled. It wasn't melting, so it wasn't "real" snow. The government, the corporations, the oligarchs were doing.....something.

But there's reasons why that snow and ice didn't melt fast. We'll get to that in a minute. 

Then, the dirty icy "monuments" in the parking lots in the South remained well into March. That's normal for us in Vermont, but it's completely bizarre for people in Tennessee, or Virginia or even Maryland and New Jersey.   

The conspiracy theories started again. Snow always melts way before now! Something is wrong! say the worried conspiracists.  Even if people didn't believe the conspiracy theories, they still remarked about black piles of debris in Philadelphia in late March that were in fact leftover snow piles. 

Montclair, New Jersey residents are annoyed by lingering snow dumps in parks.  The snow was removed from streets in the winter, and left in the parks. As of earlier this week, much of the snow was still there, covered in grime and flecked liberally with trash. Big piles of "snowcrete" remained at the airport in Baltimore as April arrived. 

Now all these residents get to enjoy what we Vermonters do: On top of our mud season, the rotting piles of dirty snow  in parking lots and the grimy puddles surrounding them are as much a scene of spring as crocuses and budding trees.

Big old snow piles need a lot of what is known as latent heat of fusion to completely melt.  Latent heat of fusion is just the energy needed to turn ice from a solid into a water a liquid. That's not the same as temperature. It's not a matter of just heating up the ice. Energy has to go into the process of converting ice to water. 

According to the Boston Globe via Mental Floss: 

The piles are dense and heavy, especially since they formed in large part from sleet in addition to some snow. The piles were plopped there, become even more dense and heavy. The snow closer to the surface  starts acting as an insulator for the snow buried further down. The compact snow requires more energy to dissipate.

If you really want to get rid of an old ugly snow pile, you can spread it out with a shovel or backhoe. If more surface is exposed to the air, it will melt faster. If you don't have the energy to do that, pray for rain.

A well soaked snow pile melts faster than one that sits out there day after dry, sunny day .

And it could be worse. In the winter of 2015, Boston had epic amounts of snow, we're talking several feet in a few weeks. The city piled snow in back lots in a desperate attempt to get it off the streets. Not all of that 2015 snow melted until July.

Weather Conspiracy Theories Weirdly Gain Traction Over Reality

The tin foil hat crowd is working overtime, with so many
weather conspiracies that GOP politicians to pass
unnecessary law, and put people in unnecessary danger. 

 The weather wackos are out there. And gaining in numbers and power.

They're actually passing ridiculous laws, distracting from the big issues of the day that really need to be addressed.  

These are the people who look at all the storms, floods, wind and other weirdness out there we've had this year, and conclude some nefarious groups are controlling the weather. 

Even perfectly normal weather becomes fodder for these wackadoodle theories.  

Marjorie Taylor Greene in her usual full conspiracy mode said and has been "researching weather modification" (oh boy) and, "We must end the dangerous and deadly practice of weather modification and geoengineering."

Never mind that the limited attempts at things like cloud seeding and such and haven't produced any deaths or damage. Mostly because there's no weather modification going on, aside from local, small cloud seeding operations that produce sprinkles of rain.  

Still, Marjorie is  pressing on, introducing a bill that "prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature climate or sunlight intensity. It will be a felony offense."

She's got buddies in this endeavor. "Weather manipulation is real, but in the hands of our enemies or or some overlord, I think it can be a very detrimental thing. I'm big on God and just letting him work his magic and not people trying to play God," said GOP Tim Burchett, who cosponsored Greene's House bill that would ban supposed weather control.

Our friends Marjorie and Tim are  getting mocked for all this, as she always. does. Florida Democrat Care Moskowitz said on social media, "I'm introducing a bill that prohibits the injection, release or dispersion of stupidity into Congress."

Yeah, good luck with that.  

CLOUD SEEDING AND TEXAS

Meanwhile retired general Mike Flynn, a former national security advisor in the first Trump administration - and also a right wing batshit conspiracy dude - n reposted another nutcase, who, in all caps of course, screamed "I NEED SOMEONE TO LOOK INTO WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS. WHEN WAS THE LAST CLOUD SEEDING?"

The answer is a few days before the storm. 

Like almost all conspiracy theories, a microscopic nugget of truth begins the story for instance, in the days  before the big Texas flood, there was some cloud seeding aircraft up there, trying to produce a little rain for some places that were actually drought stricken before the flood. 

That produced isolated, small amounts of rain, as cloud seeding never creates much precipitation. Cloud seeding is arguably useful to provide some parched crops a little moisture, but it sure as hell doesn't make it pour, 

As meteorologist Matthew Cappucci explained on X, cloud seeding doesn't "create" moisture to land as rain drops. 

It just helps droplets in clouds bump into each other to form bigger drops that fall. You can't get much moisture from just a collection of clouds. 

In the Texas floods, a gigantic surge of moisture pumped very wet air and dense clouds into central Texas. That air and those clouds needed no help in producing those tragic downpours. 

Cappucci, in full snark mode, also said, "Claiming that enormous regional floods are tied to cloud seeding is like claiming an overweight individual jumping into the Pacific Ocean could cause a tsunami. Such crazy conspiracies exhibit a fundamental lack of any semblance of understanding of scale."

MORE LAWS, CONSPIRACIES

But, despite that dose of reality, it's full speed ahead with the conspiracies. 

Florida just passed through a new law that says public use airports starting in October must submit monthly reports on geoengineering and weather modification activities or lose funding. 

I'm not sure how that's going to work, because nobody at the airports or on planes who use those airports is modifying the weather, at least intentionally, but not matter. 

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier  is really into this, though, because - sigh - he appears to be one of those sad people who think contrails from jets flying overhead is trying to poison the populace for some nefarious reason. Reasons that they really have a hard time explaining, never mind providing any evidence.

Here's Uthmeier's breathless, melodramatic statement on the issue: "From farmlands to our waterways, to the very air we breath - Floridians' health is under attack from toxic particulates being sprayed into our atmosphere, polluting our water, contaminating agriculture, and destroying human health."

Uthmeier included photos of cloud streaks in his post, which were those  jet contrails. Which is water vapor caused by condensation from the exhaust from aircraft.  

Uthmeier of course also invoked Texas and cloud seeding which we've already gone over, and there's no evidence (of course!) there's no toxins from our imaginary weather modification projects in Florida. 

First of all, nobody in Florida has applied for or received a weather modification license since it became a requirement back in 1957, according to PoliFact/Poynter. In 1957 citrus growers in three Florida counties tried cloud seeding for their orchards. But apparently, it didn't work great so they gave up. 

Poynter reached out to Florida environmental officials and Uthmeier to find out whether there were any reports of unlicensed weather modification efforts but didn't hear back. 

It's not just Florida. Missouri lawmakers are considering a proposal to ban all weather modification, including cloud seeding, saying in part that humans should not "play God" with the weather. 

Then there's the fringe group that is threatening to attack and destroy Doppler weather installations around the United States. 

The group, Veterans on Patrol, somehow think that Doppler radar is some sort of "weather weapon" but don't explain how a device that just measures precipitation intensity and direction is some sort of weapon. 

Earlier this month, a man was arrested for destroying the power supply to the weather radar at television  station KWTV in Oklahoma city. 

The dude who was arrested, Anthony Tyler Mitchell, 39, is not known to be a member of Veterans on Patrol, but the crime was inspired by them, officials said. 

But, according to NBC News, the head of that group. Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer (can we add a few more names?) welcomed the Oklahoma attack. 

"When we destroy and eliminate over 15 in a state of Oklahoma, your radar maps are going to change big time, and the weather in just going to be completely different over Oklahoma and the surrounding area," he told NBC. 

Or, in reality, the weather in Oklahoma won't change, except if he succeeds, residents of the state won't know if one of the area's many tornadoes, flash floods and other weather hazards are heading their way. I guess this dude figures Oklahomans love surprises, even if they are supremely unpleasant and deadly. 

He claimed the Texas flood was an effort by the military to murder children (by catching them in a flash flood, I guess), but he offered no motive for this alleged murderous scheme. 

I'm sure Mitchell, our radar vandal, is enjoying the charges of felony malicious injury to property, burglary and damage to critical infrastructure. 

We're all laughing at the stupidity of these whack jobs, except for one thing: It's dangerous. Wired reported the head of the Texas cloud seeding company Rainmaker has received 100 death threats since the Texas flood. 

And the fact that right wind influencers, MAGA politicians and other so-called leaders keep pushing the conspiracy theories means we'll keep seeing ill-considered, waste of time laws,.

MY "CONSPIRACY THEORY"

To appease their followers, the current administration will cater to these influences as yet another convenient distraction from what really matters, and what they are really doing. EPA administrator Lee Zeldin, always the good Trump minion, said he would investigate the so-called weather control that "caused" the Texas floods. 

"Americans have questions about geoengineering and contrails, They expect honesty and transparency from the government when seeking answers, For years, people who asked questions in good faith were dismissed, even vilified by the media and and their own government. That ends today," Zeldin sanctimonious declared recently. 

So, they'll find some innocent scapegoat to prosecute, like that cloud seeding company that might have caused a few sprinkles of rain a few days before  and 120 miles away from the Texas flood scene.

There always were and always will be gullible people who get taken in by the wildest stories. And there will be always grifter who take advantage of these gullible people, 

Which is what's going on,

Humans are modifying the weather in one big way: Climate change. As everyone in the real world knows, all that fossil fuel we've been burning for the past century or two has modified the climate and thus the weather. 

Heat waves are hotter, rainstorms are wetter and powerful storms are more powerful. 

As the Washington Post puts it, "....extreme weather events are becoming more intense and frequent because of human-caused climate change. Some long-term deniers of that well-established process have been more likely to blame chemtrails or cloud seeding than to reconsider the climate-altering effects of fossil fuel emissions."

My conspiracy theory - and I actually thing it makes a bit of sense - is that the fossil fuel industry will do anything to protect their business. 

Distract the public with bogus "theories" and they can keep pumping those greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Which worsens the climate, and creates more extreme weather. Rinse and repeat. 

There's more than enough gullible people to keep this scam going.  

Conspiracy Whackos Strike Again: Anti-Government Groups Says Doppler Radar Is "Weather Weapon"

A Doppler radar installation, probably monitoring that
severe thunderstorm in the background. These radars
are crucial for monitoring severe weather, but
a conspiracy group wants to attack and destroy
Doppler radar because they are somehow
a "weather weapon."

Apparently, the wackos are going after Doppler radar now

As if NOAA and the National Weather Service didn't have enough problems with Trump cutbacks on staff and services that are harming both forecast accuracy and research, there's terrorists now, too. 

An anti-government group called Veterans on Patrol have somehow decided that Doppler radar is now somehow a "weather weapon."

Doppler radar installations are those big white balls on top of towers - there's one in Colchester, Vermont for reference - that track precipitation, winds and other features in the atmosphere. 

Doppler radar is fantastic for determining the type of precipitation that's falling in various locations. Also the intensity, which is super handy if you're worried about flooding. It also detects wind patterns, including dangerous ones that might, for example, indicate a tornado is about to form. 

The group has thus far not come up with an explanation as to how Doppler radar is a "weather weapon."  Veterans on Patrol said the Doppler sites are controlled by the military and are somehow "poisoning our skies."

Responding to media reports on the threats, Veterans on Patrol founder Michael "Lewis Arthur" Meyer said the group is moving forward with plans to target the radars

Per the Washington Post:

"'We intend to take as many NexRads offline as possible once our attack simulations have prepared us,' Meyer wrote. He said he had 'full authority' to do so. Meet said the 'attack simulations" would go until June but potentially i not August, without giving details about the operation."

Though there has been no attacks yet, and not much in the way of suspicious activity at the Doppler radar sites, officials are taking no chances.

"Out of a abundance of caution, we are asking all regions to notify their field offices and radar technicians to maintain increased vigilance when at or near radar sites," NOAA's central office warned leadership in a May 12 memo. 

National Weather Service staff were told to notify law enforcement of any suspicious or weird behavior.

The threats from Veterans on Patrol come at an already bad time for NOAA and the National Weather Service, as the agency has been battered by Trump administration layoffs, buyouts and steep cutbacks that are crippling its mission. 

Per CNN:

"'Nobody likes federal employees being demeaned by the administration, but when it escalates to violence or threats of it, it start to become really demoralizing,' said one NWS employee who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the press."

This would be an especially bad time for Doppler weather radars to fail, either through mechanical failure or sabotage. As CNN reports, the agency has more than 90 vacancies for the technicians who normally repair them. 

A Doppler radar that is offline can make meteorologists miss threatening weather like a developing tornado or flash flood. 

Veterans on Patrol is an extremist conspiracy theory group but up until now don't have a big reputation for violence. Like many other similar groups, this one offers itself up as a safe haven for people who are going through a rough time.

A classic example came in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina last fall. 

Veterans on Patrol serve up a spot in the town of Lake Lure, where they collected and distributed donated supplies, such as bottled water, food and clothing.

So far, so good. 

Then Veterans on Patrol began telling storm victims there the government somehow steered Helene into western North Carolina so they could take land and harvest minerals.  They also falsely said the Federal Emergency Management Agency was giving most aid to undocumented immigrants, terrorists and criminals. 

Enough people in Lake Lure saw through this scam to force Veterans on Patrol to leave.

Somehow, I think there's some other public relations move by this group to target Doppler radar.

Maybe they're stooges.  The Trump administration has been dismantling NOAA through repeated staff and resource cutbacks. 

The goal might be to degrade NOAA and the National Weather Service enough to "prove" that government agencies are inept, so weather forecasting should go to a private company, thereby enriching a couple billionaires somewhere. 

I obviously don't think Trump and Veterans for Patrol are working together.  Although come to think of it they are a match made in heaven.

After all, corrupt administrations worldwide rely on useful idiots - people and groups that have swallowed anti-government propaganda no matter how off the wall.

A subset of Trumpers are willing to believe almost anything. Including the idea that Doppler radars are somehow "weather weapons."

The whack jobs feed the energy of the Trump True Believers, which enables the Trumpsters to pretend they have a groundswell of support behind them.  

Trump and his minions don't need Veterans for Patrol, but I'm sure they consider them helpful.

To bad the rest of us are both appalled by this Doppler conspiracy and laughing our butts off at the purveyors of this nonsense.

NOAA Fact Check Dishearteningly Necessary, Not That Millions Of Wackos Would Believe Actual Facts, Science

NOAA launched a web page meant to debunk lots of
wild conspiracy theories about the weather. 
Great effort, but large portions of the population
chose to believe things that defy basic physics. 

 With all the deeply crazy conspiracy theories about the weather that an alarmingly large number of people believe, NOAA recently had to post a page on its web site debunking the whacko ideas out there.  

The NOAA debunking info is a  mindnumbingly Captain Obvious web page, but I don't blame them. We live in an idiocracy, a society increasingly controlled by stupid people. Or at least willfully ignorant ones. 

I don't know if NOAA's conspiracy debunking page will do much good, because people cling to their out there ideas like their life depended on it. Never mind if what they think is going on defies basic laws of physics. 

 For the record, here's some facts that NOAA provides. The meteorologists there tell us they can't control or steer hurricanes. They don't do cloud seeding, though some private companies do that to produce a little rain in highly local areas.

Also, have you ever seen NOAA Doppler radar installations? They look like a giant white snowball atop a radio tower. This now very commonly used radar is really good at peering inside storms, helping in many ways.  One great example is how Doppler radar finds shifting winds inside a severe thunderstorm to determine whether a tornado is forming so meteorologists can warn us if they do find something suspicious. 

But nope! NOAA has to try and debunk all those who are saying those Doppler radar towers are somehow steering hurricanes and targeting specific communities. As if some random National Weather Service meteorologist decided they had a bad vacation experience in Fort Myers and decided to smite the city with a hurricane as revenge. 

NOAA also sees fit to debunk something called HAARP.  This one is an old classic.

The conspiracy theory behind HAARP has been going for years now. It's supposedly the mechanism in which the evil government controls the weather, or sprays us with mind control chemicals or ensures child trafficking can go on, or gawd knows what else.

Sigh. 

There actually is such a thing as HAARP.  It's a small little National Science Foundation-funded research center in remote Gakona, Alaska that is focusing on the ionosphere, which is 30 to 600 miles above the Earth's surface - and above the Earth's weather.  HAARP is basically a large radio transmitter. 

REACTION

NOAA posted on X a link to their conspiracy debunking page and as you can imagine, the comments on the post were depressing as hell.

I still can't get over how people create entire new realities from thin air. 

There's a ton of breathless responses about how "they" are controlling the weather and NOAA is lying. As if they're some top secret organization that's somehow mustering the energy of 10,000 atomic bombs to steer hurricanes into the United States without a bunch of people noticing it.  

Somehow, a Hurricane Helene or a Hurricane Milton is "proof" of some grand conspiracy, rather than hurricanes just following the laws of physics, like they always do. 

Many of the conspiracy comments conflate cloud seeding, which as I previously noted can produce some rain in very local areas, to this Huge Project to flood out vast sections of the United States. Or something. It's never clear what these conspiracy theorists are getting at. 

I also hardly see any of these people explain why they think the government is steering storms and just making life miserable on purpose. 

Sales of tin hats these days must be at record high levels. 

Other people posted photos of jet contrails and cirrus clouds as somehow "proof" of weather modification. Normal people just note that the photos are just standard issue clouds that you see them all the time.

One response to NOAA on X showed time stamped videos showing how NOAA or the U.S. government "controls" the weather. The videos start at around 7:30 in the morning show a few jet contrails and cirrus clouds. As the morning goes on in this video series, the clouds gradually lower and thicken, until by 2 p.m. it looks like it's going to rain.

You can't get it through this person's head that what they documented was the approach of some type of weather system, probably a run-of-the-mill warm front. 

This same person posted dozens and dozens of photos of various clouds "showing" government weather control. Literally all of the photos show the type of clouds we've all seen hundreds of times in the sky. By the way, the jet contrails she keeps showing consist of either water vapor or more likely ice crystals. 

It all goes on and on. 

What's completely ignored in these theories is that humans are actually controlling the weather in one way. At least sort of.

It's called climate change.  Which of obviously not something that people are directing at any one group. But it is affecting all of us. 

There is plenty of evidence that because of human-caused  climate change, storms are in general getting worse, precipitation is getting heavier in some storms and record heat waves have gotten much more common place. Hell, just this week, dozens if not hundreds of record high temperatures across the United States. 

I've actually got a conspiracy theory of my own.  

The people who make up and embrace these crazy notions of weather control understand they - fairly or not - lead an unremarkable life that maybe is to them a little boring. Not to say my life is a James Bond style thrill every second of my existence. I'm definitely nothing special. But I like to live in reality, thank you. Or at least look for reliable evidence if somebody throws a theory or "fact" out there. 

I wonder if some of these conspiracy theories with pedestrian lives imagine placing  themselves in a made up bad TV drama about some mad scientist bent on destroying the world through weather modification, atmospheric mind control, whatever they come up with. 

Maybe they picture themselves as real-life Columbus or Matlocks, you know the underestimated character who figures out what is really going on and brings the villains to justice. 

All this is encouraged by people - supposed leaders - who are actually trying to gain control.  Many of the people feeding the conspiracy theory this steady diet of nonsense have their own aims. Not to control the weather, they know they can't do that. 

But feeding the conspiracy beast earns them money, power, status, autocracy in some cases  

And people are falling for these distractions hook, line and sinker.  

As If Deadly Wildfire Not Enough; Maui Faces Land Grabbers, Conspiracy Theorists

Aerial view of a neighborhood destroyed by the
deadly wildfire in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii. Land 
speculators are already contacting victims in
attempts to buy land at cut rate prices 
as an "investment opportunity."

While good people reach out to help the people of Maui begin to recover from the wildfire that killed at least 106 victims, there's always a few bad apples who try, through personal greed or delusions, to make matters worse.   

On top of everything else, Maui is facing people trying to make a quick buck, some by running real estate scams, others by seeking clicks on social media through dubious conspiracy theories.

REAL ESTATE "OPPORTUNITY"

When most people look at the Maui calamity, they see a tragic disaster.  A few soul-less people apparently see it as an exciting investment opportunity. 

As ABC News reports:

"Local officials say outsiders are attempting to take advantage of the tragedy by attempting to purchase damaged home sites from locals who have lost everything. 

Officials expressed concern that residents are being approached about selling residential sites 'by people posing as real estate agents who may have ill intent.'"

Hawaii has the highest housing costs in America, which makes it incredibly difficult for middle income people to buy homes in the best of times. Now, the housing crisis on Maui has gotten exponentially worse. 

Which means if a real estate investor can get their hands on any land in Hawaii, they'll make a killing. 

Even so-called "legitimate" real estate moguls are literally swooping down on the wreckage in Maui like vultures, trying to make a quick buck.

According to the Independent:

"While thousands of people living on the islands are trying to recover and find shelter, investors see an opportunity. In a video posted to Instagrams member of the nonprofit organization Kako'o Haleakala claimed land investors were already calling Lahaina residents who lost their homes, offering to buy their land." 

The Independent noted in was unclear which investors or realtors the Instagram post referred to. 

USA Today has reported on the same issue.  They report:

"Mark Stefl, 67, said he, too, has been approached by developers, and the offer felt like being kicked while he was down."   

This isn't a new phenomenon. After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, real estate "investors" swooped into New Orleans to snap up damaged property at bargain basement prices, The same thing happened after western wildfires.

While it is certainly perfectly legal for property owners to sell their land as they choose, these real estate vultures seek to catch people when they are vulnerable in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. This would be at a time that these property owners would understandably find it difficult to make rational decisions.

The real estate vultures know this, and would end up "negotiating" a purchase that leaves the seller with much less money than if they sold under normal circumstances. To be blunt, it's a total ripoff. 

Against this backdrop, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said he's is consulting with the state's attorney general to see if they can place a moratorium on any sale of properties that were damaged or destroyed.

CONSPIRACY WHACKOS

Every time a wildfire or something like this happens, the idiots come out of the woodwork to explain this is all a government plot to do...... I'm not sure. 

In the Maui case, people are posting old photos of events that sort of, kinda look like laser beams setting off explosive fires. 

Contrary to what conspiracy theorists would
have you believe, this is not a energy
weapon starting Maui on fire. It's a refinery
flare creating a light pillar in frigid 
winter air back in 2018.

The most popular conspiracy theory is related to the real estate stuff I cited above.  The whack jobs say the real estate moguls and the "elite" in cooperation with the government, set these fires to allow the rich to conduct a land grab.

As you can see by what I wrote above, it doesn't look like real estate "investors" need expensive government equipment to try and make land grabs. All they  have to do is call or email victims in their attempts. 

The Associated Press offers us some examples of how people use real photos from unrelated events to "prove" their conspiracy.

One photo shows a distant fire with a beam reaching into the sky over it. The wackos say that's another example of the government for some reason launching fiery attacks using weaponized weather modification tactics on Maui. 

The photo is real, the context is not.  The photo actually shows a controlled burn at an Ohio refinery back in 2018. The beam of light is caused by ice crystals in the air creating the beam above the fire, which occurred in the middle of winter. 

Another image supposedly showing another example of the "government weapon" in Hawaii is just a photo of a Chilean electrical transformer exploding during high winds several years ago.  Yet another photo is just an image taken from SpaceX's Instagram account of a 2018 launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in California, notes the Associated Press.  

Of course, my words here will do absolutely zero to discourage the conspiracy theories. I only write about it to say buyer beware. And OK, to mock the conspiracists a little bit.  

Alex Jones Gets Weather Wacky Again, Says Biden Unleashed Kentucky Tornadoes

Totally not crazy Alex Jones thinks Joe Biden unleashed
can control weather and unleashed deadly tornadoes
on Kentucky earlier this month. 

Crazy conspiracy theorist Alex Jones would be both pathetic and hysterical if he didn't try so hard to hurt people with his wackadoodle musings. 

I dislike him intensely, as many people do, but his latest weather-related rant is sort of entertaining, in a skewed-brain sort of way. 

As Media Matters notes,  Jones informs us the government weather weapons were developed in the 1950s.  Biden is apparently using them in nasty ways, such as cutting the power to Texas during that horrible cold snap last February, and unleashing those tornadoes earlier this month down in Kentucky.

To be fair, he doesn't come right out and say Biden ordered the tornadoes, but Jones uses that go-to canard that "It is a legitimate question to ask."

 In that spirit, I'll ask a question of Jones: Are you freaking nuts?

I'll answer that! Yes.  

I'm not quite sure why Biden would order a tornado strike on Kentucky. And you'd think if Biden was powerful enough to create gigantic tornadoes, he would have cowed Joe Manchin into agreeing to the president's Build Back Better legislation. 

Somehow, though, I think Biden's too nice a guy to unleash tornadoes on innocent Kentuckians. Even if most of them didn't vote for Biden.  

What's next, Alex? What weather disaster are you going to blame on some vast, weird government conspiracy? I'm sure the Illuminati has got something up their sleeves, right?