why does it look..

.. like there's a hurricane forming over the midwest?

Monday's weather map:

Tuesday's weather map:
map later Tuesday afternoon.. twin swirling weather masses:

Doesn't it seem odd to you too? Is it 80 degree balmy weather from the Gulf that we're experiencing now funneled in through the swirling cloud-weather-system mass?

Doesn't it seem odd that in early February it's 60 degrees here while it's snowing in Seattle?