Wild Weather

Apparently the entire middle of the United States is getting hammered with wild weather.

Tornadoes in Mississippi. Snow in Texas. And a potentially historic flood in North Dakota.

The Southport section of Bismarck was swamped with a few inches to several feet of water, North Dakota emergency officials said.

The National Weather Service issued a foreboding forecast for the state, saying that many rivers were at flood level -- the worst being the Red River, which was predicted to have a historic 41-foot crest by Saturday.

The last flood near that level was in 1997 when the river crested at 39.6 feet. The record for the Red River in Fargo, the state's most populous city, was set in 1897 at 40.1 feet, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

In other words, no one alive today has ever seen the Red River crest this high.

Is it just me, or has this kind of extreme weather been on the rise the past few years?