Frigid weather hits Midwest, -52 wind chill in ND

AP/YahooNews ^ | 1/7/10 | MICHAEL CRUMB

[Kartographer]

DES MOINES, Iowa – Snow was piled so high in Iowa that drivers couldn't see across intersections and a North Dakota snowblower repair shop was overwhelmed with business as heavy snow and wind chills as low as 52 below zero blasted much of the Midwest on Thursday.

[Kartographer]

IIIIIIIOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWA! where the billzard comes sweep'n cross the plains and the snows so high as an elephant's eye and they even have to put snowshoes on Al Gore's plane.....

[Beaten Valve]

Sunny and 76 degrees here in LA today...

[HiTech RedNeck]

So that’s where Al Gore hid the global warming.

[kempster]

Perfect time for “Fat Eddie Shultz” to launch his global warming campaign for Senator.

[Le Chien Rouge]

32 with a wind chill of 15 here in Austin ....

Thank God I saved my winter gear from my years in Upstate NY

[Le Chien Rouge]

32 with a wind chill of 15 here in Austin ....

Thank God I saved my winter gear from my years in Upstate NY

[Yorlik803]

Lucky you. It is going to snow here in Pittsburgh and going to get colder than a witches tit in a brass bra over the weekend.
but then again, You do live in LA so I guess it balances out.

[PLD]

I really think someone should take Al Gore to where the coldest weather in the country is today and let him stand in the square and tell us about Global Warming,make sure he is wearing shorts and t shirt..we would not want him to get to hot standing there..

[cripplecreek]

22 degrees and snowing like hell here in Southern Michigan.

[Marathoner]

My tagline is the joke going around here today in central IL.

[Lakeshark]

No, no, this is information is simply wrong.

All the models say it's warmer..........

[lesko]

Remember now, this does not disprove global warming.

[JoanneSD]

Thank goodness for Al Gore, he got rid of global warming, and thanks to gore again, because if he had not invented the Internet, we would not be getting these reports...

[RC2]

Time to stay in front of the woodstove. We live in the Sierra’s in California and our woodstove is our life line. We loose power a few times a year and that stove is a life saver during the winter. I’ve live in areas where it would get to -17. I moved out, not my thing.

[Gay State Conservative]

Sunny and 82 degrees here in Eastern Massachusetts.

[Kartographer]

The weather inside the tanning salon doesn’t count. ;-)

[Kartographer]

The weather inside the tanning salon doesn’t count. ;-)

[SoDak]

Had a minus 31 here in SD the other morning, looking for -25 tonight, and that’s not a wind chill, just an ambient temp. Wind chills are supposed to drive into the -70’s tonight. Time to break out the Carharrt and put away the jean jacket. Our Alaskan friends would probably like to vacation here to get away from the really cold stuff.

[kidd]

You do live in LA so I guess it balances out

Pennsylvania is cold
California is broke, liberal, unemployed and overrun with illegals

Pennsylvania will be warm by May.

[hennie pennie]

Several years ago I read that they were going to start conducting experiments on human 'brown fat' -- to see if chilling the small amount of brown fat on the adult human being, which is located around the neck area and highest part of the chest, if it would boost metabolism to the point seen in lab animals.

Do any of you know if there are any results in yet, about this?

I'm not wearing a scarf this week, HOPING to have a little weight loss, without trying, LOL

Does only the neck area have to be chilled, or does the total adult body need to get chilled???

I understand the reason why babies are so nice & cuddly warm is because their fat content is 85% brown fat, unlike adults who maybe have a mere 5 percent.