Nor'Easter - from beyond?

I just spent the week in Boston, where I experienced the coldest May storm on record (ie, since 1873). It was 45-50 degrees and raining. As I was going to sleep each night, I heard the wind whipping outside and the rain pounding the windows.

Not typical for late May!

OK, so freak Nor'Easters happen. But the most interesting tidbit I heard was that some climate scientists had linked this particular storm to a series of atypical weather events that had been set in motion by the tsunami at the end of 2004. Wow.

It's certainly plausible-- that tsunami changed the rotation of the Earth, for goodness sake. It's yet one more reminder that Nature is linked together in both space and time, and often in ways that we can't predict. Expect the unexpected, and go humbly before the power of the natural world.