Weather: 50 To 0 In A Matter Of Hours (Climate Change Alert)

CBS Chicago ^ | January 30, 2008

[steelyourfaith]

Whether you are driving, riding the bus, taking the train or hailing a cab, it's a must to bundle up and leave plenty of extra time to get to work, with snow on the ground and temperatures 40 to 50 degrees lower than they were 24 hours ago.

[AntiKev]

It went from warmish and rainy to cold and windy here overnight. How bout some of that global warming Al?

[steelyourfaith]

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[garyhope]

It’s that damned “global warming” again. Curses!

[AbeKrieger]

Must be that derned internal combustion engine I was using again this morning.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

up here it went from 52 to a windchill of below zero in about 2 hours (when the front came blowin through with winds at 50-65 mph)..

[Uncle Miltie]

That’s nothing. Fargo went from about +38 to -26 one day this week.

[dinoparty]

Yesterday, we got a warm drizzle in the morning, 60 degrees and sun at 1:00 pm, a thunderstorm at 2:00 pm, ice turning to snow at 3:00 pm, 15 degrees and very high wind in the evening.

It was strange.

[Uncle Miltie]

Actual: + 37 Monday to - 16 Tuesday. 53 degree variance in 24 hours.

[cripplecreek]

I had 48 degrees last night at 10 oclock and woke up to 2 degrees this morning with a windchill of -15 or more.

[kitkat]

You’re getting winds up to 15 mph, according to SF Gate weather report. Here, in Western New York we’re getting gusts up to 60 mph, and I’m surrounded by tall trees. Scary. Hey, I thought Chicago was the Windy City.

Good luck with your cold weather and driving.

[codercpc]

Mid Wisconsin yesterday morning, 45, this morning -48 degrees (windchill), -11 actual temp. Record breaking temperature swing in 24 hours or less.

All I know is that it is way too cold to do anything but stay indoors. Thankfully I work out of my house! Kids all got a day off school.

[Vaquero]

[A_Tradition_Continues]

Here in NW Indiana my Weatherbug indicates 0.8*F with a windchill of 15*F. There is a definite nip in the air this morning.

[ModelBreaker]

Actual: + 37 Monday to - 16 Tuesday. 53 degree variance in 24 hours.

The weather was getting ready for the results of the Florida primary.

[A_Tradition_Continues]

correction...that’s -15*F for a windchill.

[MarkL]

Yup... Here in KC it was about 60 degrees one day, 50 degrees at 6:00am the following morning, and dropped down to about 10 degrees and snowed later on that same day!

Mark

[cowboyway]

Yesterday, we got a warm drizzle in the morning, 60 degrees and sun at 1:00 pm, a thunderstorm at 2:00 pm, ice turning to snow at 3:00 pm, 15 degrees and very high wind in the evening.

That's nothing.

It went from 61 degF this morning to 75 degF currently here in Homestead, FL......with a light, offshore breeze!!!

((((Brrrrrrrrr))))

[Caramelgal]

While on one hand the global warming alarmists will discount this type of thing as just a short term anomaly, they will conversely ignore the over all and overwhelming evidence that the Earth has undergone very much more dramatic climate shifts over its history and long before man and our SUV’s and carbon footprints came on the scene.

The biggest threat to mankind and all life on earth, especially us mammals, comes not from global warming, a phenomenon that actually promotes life, but from global cooling, i.e. ice ages that results in mass life extinctions.

Global climate change has more to do with changes in the Sun’s energy and with the Earth’s plate tectonics and volcanism than it does with any insignificant human activity.

We are just lucky in that we are as humans and other mammals evolved during a rather warm and stable climate in comparison to the overall cycle of the Earth’s dramatic and cyclical climatic changes.

We have much more to fear about our future regarding the next ice age that is eventually coming, than we do about a temporary, rather stable and life friendly, global warming period.

Sci/Tech - Earth's huge 'snowball event

"A succession of snowball glaciations each lasting millions of years, and then by rapid recovery under a greenhouse situation, it seems to be just what the biologist ordered," Mr Hoffman added.

Massive global cooling – life dies. Global warming – live thrives.

[maggief]