Posted on 10/09/2017 6:28:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
Winter started early this year. The first blizzard of the season in Montana broke a snow record with 30 inches during the first week of October, barely a few weeks into fall. In my state of Colorado too, with 11 inches of snow in Grand Mesa. Prompting the local CBS affiliate to proclaim, “The snow season is off to a big start in western Colorado!”
Town and Country magazine, which caters to one percenters in predominantly blue Northeastern enclaves, had their own forecast. Warning readers, “Prepare to Bundle Up: Winter 2017 & 2018 Is Going to Be Unusually Cold.” Predicting for the enlightened #NeverTrump residents of New York and Boston, “an above average amount of snowfall” and “a colder winter than last year.”
I wonder how many members of the New York Times editorial board or management team have a copy of Town and Country sitting on the coffee table of their fashionable Upper East Side coop? Or their Hamptons weekend getaway, strategically placed alongside the New Yorker or the Atlantic? Not to read, but to project an entitled sense of sophistication and savoir faire, so common among liberal elites.
Do the smart set at the NY Times find any irony or contradiction in the Town and Country story about more snow and their own 2014 article titled, “The End of Snow?” Ski mountains predicted to be brown rather than white. Calamity for the Winter Olympics, not having a sufficiently snowy venue to hold the games, instead having to move them to a small town on the northern coast of Hudson Bay.
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They were talking about their cocaine supply, apparently......................
Who said “children won’t know what snow is”?
They're beyond silly.
Good article :)
Snowing in Denver.
3-4” in the suburbs already.
All this cold and snow is from the effects of “climate change”. It never snows in the mountains in early October...
EVER!!!!
And the sheep will eagerly believe it.
Then come the summer, the drought will be (again) the fault of “climate change”.
Morons who buy this Global warming crap, that's who.
Snowing as I type here in Denver. Normally we get snow at the end of the month.
Beware the Maunder Minimum!
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/10/08/weak-solar-cycle-continues-the-sun-is-spotless-again/
Weak solar cycle continues – the sun is spotless again
It may be a cold one this year, stacking up extra fire wood.
I took many photos of the sun for the eclipse. Spotless mostly.
It’s not the minimum so much as the solar spot peaks have been much lower these past few cycles. This indicates inevitable coldness.
That said, seasons are tending to start earlier, but fade quickly for some reason.
Could it be that what we have here is the 21st Century version of the pagan explanation that our mishaps are a result of “angry gods”? In the past thousands of years earthquakes, storms and other assorted catastrophes have required sacrifices of virgins, children and other unfortunate folks to appease the angry gods! Note that the high priests and shamans demanding these “necessary” sacrifices (Al Gore, Bill Nye, etc.) rarely were it victims.
Gore, Nye, other Chicken Littles and most of the media (just like the pagan shamans of old?), now demand essentially the same thing… sacrificing freedoms and standard of living to appease Momma Earth. Note that the high priests and shamans demanding these “necessary” sacrifices like those of old, do not plan to do much sacrificing themselves (i.e. Al Gore’s infamous utility bill) and billionaire private jet trips to “climate conferences” held at luxury resorts.
Could it be… only a huge government, more and more totalitarian, can “solve” this “problem”.
bump
The cats seem under the impression that this winter will be a cold one; they shed summer coats early, and have thicker than average winter coats.
I learned how to ski at Powderhorn on Grand Mesa. It’s a beautiful place.
Since he was a Chief in a modern society he had never been taught he old secrets.
When he looked at the sky he couldn't tell what the winter was going to be like.
Nevertheless, to be on the safe side he told his tribe that the winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the village should collect firewood to be prepared.
But being a practical leader, after several days he got an idea. He went to the phone booth, called the National Weather Service and asked, "Is the coming winter going to be cold?"
"It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold," the meteorologist at the weather service responded.
So the Chief went back to his people and told them to collect even more firewood in order to be prepared.
A week later he called the National Weather Service again. "Does it still look like it is going to be a very cold winter?"
"Yes," the man at National Weather Service again replied, "it's going to be a very cold winter."
The Chief again went back to his people and ordered them to collect every scrap of firewood they could find.
Two weeks later the Chief called the National Weather Service again. "Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?"
"Absolutely," the man replied. "It's looking more and more like it is going to be one of the coldest winters ever."
"How can you be so sure?" the Chief asked.
The weatherman replied, "We're sure it's going to be cold because the Indians are collecting firewood like crazy!"
I like stories like that one.
There’s also one about a mill that blew the whistle at a certain time every morning. To keep their clock accurate, they would set it by another establishment’s bell.
Of course the other establishment set it’s clock by the mill’s whistle.
Nope, I’m sure it because you changed their cat food.
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