Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/22/2009 9:45:54 PM PST by justa-hairyape
BRITAIN faces months of cold weather disruption according to a leading American weather forecasting company yesterday.
The UK and northern Europe are in line for a “colder than normal” January, February and March, said the firm, WSI, which provides forecasts for many top US corporations.
Its prediction, which contrasts with the Met Office’s much more cautious winter forecast, came as Britain struggled in the grip of more Christmas travel chaos caused by days of ice and heavy snow.
Temperatures were expected to plunge as low as -6C in many areas last night.
“The Met Office had predicted when the snow was coming. Therefore, there was a window of opportunity for getting gritters out on these roads.” Transport Minister Sadiq Khan said he would be “asking questions” about the difficulties in Basingstoke and Reading where up to 2,000 motorists were trapped on Monday night.
Motorists had to stay overnight in their cars or seek refuge in hotels, churches and emergency shelters opened by the police.
Mr Khan said local authorities had enough grit and the issue was why the grit had not been applied.
But the Local Government Association said its teams had been working round the clock to keep roads clear.
It claimed that in Hampshire and Berkshire its teams had been hit by the “perfect winter storm”. Grit was applied early in the day but was followed by rush hour coinciding with “one of the worst blizzards in a decade”.
And it described claims that councils were “ill-prepared” and had withheld salt from where it was needed as “unverified, unsubstantiated and unjustified”.
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“-6 C equals +21.2 F. That’s cold?”
Yeah, really. I live in northern Nevada, and it is normal this time of year to see lower than that every night. At night it gets lower than that regularly from October to April. I have seen it lower than that deep in the desert in August. I go camping and sleep under the stars in weather colder than that (not to mention driving an open top ‘66 landcruiser). And Nevada is the tropics compared to Idaho, and Wyoming. What a bunch of babies, lol!
We have had some freepers warn us about that stretch of Interstate east of the Rockies. The worse part of I-70 in Colorado that I remember was the first big downhill section after driving west up into the mountains. If Global Cooling is actually occurring, we should see I-70 closed more then once a year east of the Rockies. The problem in England is that this is a very rare more then 10 year occurrence. Look at the Chunnel. This must have been the biggest temperature ever between Northern France and the Chunnel since they began operations 15 years ago.
temperature ever should read temperature difference ever
Black ice in Texas is the scariest driving I've ever been in.
“...the idiot apes of planet Earth decided to got together in Copenhagen to stop warming.”
What do you mean? I’m just surprised they were able to fix it so quickly. I thought for sure we wouldn’t see the results of it until, oh, about 2012.
You have to realize that ALL Germans believe in Global Warming. My wife is German, I should know. So when the temps dipped (It was 8 degrees F, midday last Saturday) and the snow starts piling up, they don’t know what to do. The last thing they would ever think of in the world is that they were lied to.
For them, yes.
What you do not understand is that most homes in the UK are old and do not have central heating, insulated windows, attic space for insulation, etc. Combine that with brick/stone as a building material, expensive fuel costs for heating and you end up with the houses get very cold. I lived there long enough to know this one first hand.
You are the baby, dsrtsage.
Try -65f with a 30 mph wind on for size. Try camping in -30f, too.
While you are at it try spending three days snowed in in a pick up truck with the wind blowing the so hard that you have to tie yourself on to the truck if you leave it because you can’t see more then 3 feet around you.
Wimp...
Still waiting for them to fix social security. Wont even contemplate them fixing something on a global scale. It is just not possible. Not even in another 1,000 years.
Reads as if you have been to an ice age and back.
That Global Warming’s a b1tch, ain’t it...?
Dang. You gave me flash backs to college. The horror. Was driving up to College. Four students in a tricked up auto. Driving in early twilight. Doing speed limit flat out on packed snow. Two way road in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (Great White North). I was in the back on the left. Driver finally loses control as snow kept getting worse. Car fish tails right, then way back left. Now I find myself in the back left side looking out the window at the headlights of a car heading straight for me in the opposite lane. The fishtail stopped and pulled back the other way just as the car came flying through. Yikes. Oh well. We all have had close ones in our past, no doubt.
The main problem areas in a Global Cooling situation would be areas that normally never get freezes. For example, I am located in a coastal area of So Cal. We rarely if ever freeze. If the environment freezes, all the local wildlife outdoors is hit with a shock. And as we have seen in Eastern Europe, homeless people and passed out drunks should also be considered wildlife. That problem will more severely manifest within the unheated tribal camps and third world villages.
Yeah, it’s funny to hear them talk about “zub-zero” temperatures. Wimps.
Finally the Brits can get proper cold beer!
TC
Hate that global warming stuff.
I love the part where they said they “withheld salt”.
Didn’t Prince Charles after flying to Copenhagen in his private jet just tell us we maybe months before the planet would be on a global warming tipping point?
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