Posted on 11/13/2014 8:12:42 AM PST by Red Badger
“Man Made Global Cooling”
Let it Snow
Oh the weather outside is frightful
But the fire is so delightful
And since we’ve no place to go
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
It doesn’t show signs of stopping
And I’ve bought some corn for popping
The lights are turned way down low
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
When we finally kiss good night
How I’ll hate going out in the storm!
But if you’ll really hold me tight
All the way home I’ll be warm
The fire is slowly dying
And, my dear, we’re still goodbying
But as long as you love me so
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
A mere technicality. :-)
Oh, it gets cold here, too. We lost a few bushes in January, 2013. Very cold for about a week. I’m just saying this ‘polar vortex’ won’t much be affecting us.
I’ve had that song in my brain for the last week!
We have the first real snow on the ground here in Southern Michigan this morning.
Here, in Ft. Walton Beach, it got down to 18 degrees F this past winter. Killed off a lot of our yard plants that normally only see around 30 degrees...............
A white Thanksgiving is in your future...........
We don’t sing it much in Florida............;^)
Traces of snow and sleet in North Mississippi this morning
I guess not... :)
Great post.
I was raised in Hickory Flat..................1960’s.........
yup on the big island has a big mountain you can ski there
One of my co-workers went to Hawaii in the summer and did a tour that takes you to the top of a volcano to see the sunrise. Altitude at the top was somewhere around 10K ft and the temps were in the low 40’s. I can see “parts” of Hawaii hitting freezing.
Mauna Kea (Hawaiian for ‘white mountain’) is a 13,796’ (4205 meter) volcanic mountain whose summit sometimes gets a skiable/boardable mantle of snow. There are no lifts, no grooming, no resort, but a road goes to the summit to serve the dozen or so world class observatories located at the summit. You must have a 4-wheel drive vehicle to get to the summit, which serves as your “lift.” Basically, skiers take turns being the driver, who picks up the other skiers at the bottom of the runs and ferries them up to the summit. Conditions at the top are extremely variable. Winter temperatures range from 25 to 40 degrees F (-4 to 4 C), but wind chill and the high altitude can make it seem much colder. Between April and November the weather is milder, with daytime temperatures varying from 30 to 60 degrees F (0 to 15 C).
The name is Mauna Kea or White Mountain, from its undersea base of -19,000 feet to the wind-swept peaks of 13,796 feet, it’s the world’s highest mountain! It offers some of the world’s highest skiing.This massive extinct volcano is blessed with the finest snow in the world, opening almost 100 square miles of ski able terrain. At this latitude the conditions are spring like; the snow is sugar corn. We call it ‘Pineapple Powder’.
Skiing Hawaii is not for the timid spirit or for anyone who is not in good physical condition. This is skiing in the wilderness, so to speak. There are no lifts, no grooming, and no resorts but a 4WD is your ski lift. Winter conditions at the top are constantly changing with temperatures from 25 to 40 degrees F (-4 to 4 C), but the wind chill and altitude make it seem much colder. The weather is milder from April to Novemeber ranging from 30 to 60 degrees F (0 to 15 C). Forget about skiing if the wind is blowing too hard. The wind chill will be too cold, it will be too dangerous and the road will probably be closed.
That seems to have gone down the memory hole!
The cold spell, if it comes to Arizona should slow or stop illegal aliens from coming in.
When I was last in the CO mountains I saw large swaths of dead trees from the pine beetles. I would think a nice cold winter is exactly what y’all need to check the bug population. Temperature extremes, espescially cold snaps are Mother Nature’s defense against invasive species.
Ice age two find cave.
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