People from other countries sometimes complain that we Americans are consumed with our weather. Well, this is a historic tradition. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington kept meticulous weather journals. Jefferson measured rainfall, weather conditions, and blooming times of his garden plants, year after year. Our country has always been a very agricultural nation, so monitoring the weather helps us with our farms.

So, yes, I guess you could say that we Americans are consumed with our weather. Especially when we have weather like this:

Those are tornadoes taken from storms in our MidWest. We even have groups of Americans who hop in cars and trucks, chasing these storms and getting as close as they can to take photographs and study patterns. In the Northeast, we often experience similar cyclonish storms– snowstorms called Nor’Easters that can dump as much as 20 feet of snow in one storm.

Photos taken from DailyMail.

I hadn’t heard about this site until I started seeing it in my stats counter. It’s an automatic detector that tells you the last 50 Entrecarders who dropped their card at your blog. Cool! Try it out! The website is here. You need to have your Entrecard RSS address. That is easily found. Go to your Entreacard Dashboard and look for the little orange RSS icon at the top right. Right-click it and choose “copy link location” (or something like that– I use Firefox browser and that’s what it says for me). Enter that web address into the website, and enter the anti-spam numbers. (Everyone and their mother seems to have these anti-spam contraptions these days). Submit, and voila! The latest 50 droppers and their links. This makes it SOOO easy to reciprocate.