Top 10 Weather Moments

The Weather Channel is celebrating their 25th anniversary with a top 100 biggest weather moments of all time. Here's the Top 10...
1. Global warming. First identified in 1958 by Charles David Keeling.
2. Hurricane Katrina, 2005. Death toll stands at 1,836.
3. D-Day, June 6th, 1944. The weather improved enough over the English Channel
for the Allied invasion of Europe to take place. I've had the privilege to visit
the beaches at Normandy and the America Cemetery twice in France. Impressive!
4. Tiros 1, the first weather satellite, April 1st, 1960
5. Interesting choice and it's #5 The storm that lead John Newton to write the
hymn Amazing Grace in 1748.
6. Air conditioning! Invented in 1902. Who doesn't appreciate that!!
7. Supercomputers, 1950. First step in making more accurate weather predictions.
8. Thermometer invented in 1714. How hot is it? Now we know.
9. Mississippi Flood, 1927.
10. Tornado outbreak, April 1974. Two days with 148 tornadoes in 12 states east of the Mississippi. Made meteorologists rethink everything about tornadoes.
What do you think of this list? How's the weather where you're at?
These are the days my friend.
Jim "Train"