FROM TODAY'S PRINT EDITIONS:
Paul Pastelok, the long-range forecaster who replaced Joe Bastardi at Accuweather.com, agrees the spring seasons following La Nina winters come with “high potential” for violent weather. He says lingering cold and snowpack to the north, and warming air and moisture from the Gulf, will clash this spring in the mid-Mississippi, Tennessee and Ohio valleys, producing violent thunderstorms and tornadoes, like those that struck Monday in Chattanooga, Tenn. and Henry County, Ky.
(LA Times PHOTO: South Dakota, 2005 )