These are major, major floods. This while Iberia has the worst drought in recent memory. A weather system has swung in from the Atlantic and combined with heat over southern Europe to create this very energetic set of weather systems.

Ever since winter officially began last week, the weather in the Northeast (and across much of the country) has gone the other way. It's not that we're having a heat wave in the Northeast, but we are certainly in a different regime than we were earlier in the month.

The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the system today.

The $64 question is whether the weather is going to cooperate. Usually, this time of year, it does not.

Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory.

I'm very lucky when it comes to weather.