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California Governor Gavin Newsom belatedly asked President Joe Biden for a federal disaster declaration on Thursday — two weeks after the storm arrived and several days after the snow had already stopped falling. Newsom’s request was the latest delay in responding to storms that have killed at least a dozen people in mountain communities. He declared a state of emergency for 13 counties a week after the storm arrived. Following that declaration last Wednesday, Newsom left the country for a personal trip in Baja California — an apparent vacation — while thousands remained trapped in their homes, short of food,...

WASHINGTON, Dec 22 (Reuters) - The United States faces "dangerous and threatening" storms in the days before Christmas, President Joe Biden warned Thursday from the White House, and Americans who plan to travel to visit family or friends should leave right away. “It’s dangerous and threatening, it’s really very serious weather and it goes from Oklahoma all the way to Wyoming and Maine. ... So I encourage everyone to please heed local warnings," Biden said in the Oval Office.

Met Éireann has issued two new snow and ice warnings as the national forecaster also warns of some thunderstorms and “blizzard conditions”. An orange alert, the second highest warning, is in effect until 6pm on Friday. Heavy showers of hail, sleet and snow are expected to hit Ulster and Connacht. The alert warned there is a “risk of drifting and blizzard conditions” and scattered thunderstorms during the two days. There is a yellow weather warning for snow and ice in Leinster, Munster and counties Galway and Roscommon from Thursday at 5am until 6pm on Friday. …

Reading what went on in Atlanta this week is just amazing! I moved to Florida after living near Chicago and the lake snow region of NW Indiana most of my life. We had to deal with bad ice storms in Southern Illinois when I was young and while at the University of Illinois in Champaign. Three inches of snow in Chicago is NOTHING. They got rid of a mayor that didn’t get and keep the roads open. I had to teach in Chicago Heights, IL when the temperature was -48 and the wind chill was -82. As I recall, I...

By now, we're all familiar with the global warmists attempt to explain away the record-breaking mid-Atlantic blizzards. Take this, for example, from the New York Times [emphasis added]: [snip] So more snow fell from Philly to DC because the temperatures were warmer than normal during the blizzards? That got me wondering: just what were the temperatures in DC on the snow days, and how do they compare to the norm? And guess what?

A feature video. Our current featured video. Global warming, climate change, blizzards … it’s a frozen wasteland! Is this what Ed Morrissey and the nuts up in Minnesota do in their free time? Head over to Minnesotans for Global Warming to download the MP3.

If, like everyone else from New England to Virginia, you spent the last 24 hours watching the global warming fall from the sky, you may agree that Sen. Jim DeMint could be on to something. The South Carolina Republican took to the Twitter-sphere to declare that the region's second major blizzard in less than a week must be a sign from God. That is, he said, "It's going to keep snowing . . . until Al Gore cries 'Uncle!' " Fat chance. In fact, the usual suspects quickly took to the Web to declare that the blizzards of 2010 actually...

Blizzards and icy winds paralysed the northeastern United States on Wednesday, shutting down federal government for a third day and spreading Washington's misery north to New York and Boston. The latest falls made 2009-2010 the snowiest winter on record for the capital and brought conditions so perilous that people were banned from driving in the nearby city of Baltimore. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered schools closed for a rare "snow day" and the United Nations headquarters were also shuttered, but the worst of the weather was initially further south in snow-weary Washington. Residents had barely dug themselves out from...

As the blizzard-bound residents of the mid-Atlantic region get ready to dig themselves out of the third major storm of the season, they may stop to wonder two things: Why haven't we bothered to invest in a snow blower and, also, what happened to climate change? After all, it stands to reason that if the world is getting warmer - and the past decade was the hottest on record - major snowstorms should become a thing of the past, like Palm Pilots and majority rule in the Senate. Certainly that's what the Virginia state Republican Party thinks: the GOP aired...

Slick streets. Missed work. School snow days. Endless shoveling. Yet another storm in the forecast, followed by extreme cold. A long-term prognosis for wetter-than-usual weather through the winter. This week’s sunny days were a brief reprieve, but the warm-up won’t last long enough to melt the remnants of the past two storms. Does all this white make you feel blue? If so, you’re not alone, according to area therapists. “People get squirrely when they can’t go anywhere,” said Randee Anderson, a marriage and family therapist. “It puts some people in survival mode, which scares a lot of people. A lot...

<p>BOSTON — The Northeast's first major snowstorm of the season grounded airliners, iced highways and sidewalks and kept some would-be holiday shoppers home as forecasters warned of coastal floods and power outages Sunday.</p> <p>At least nine deaths were blamed on the storm.</p>

The Blizzard Of '03 Reduces Visibility On Global Warming By PAUL K. DRIESSEN The monstrous snow storm that dumped up to 40 inches of snow on mid-Atlantic states over the Presidents' Day weekend undoubtedly will unleash a new spate of blizzards on op-ed pages blaming it on the eco-activists favorite old bugaboo — global warming. That's as predictable as French hypocrisy in diplomatic relations, of course, and perhaps we should merely shrug it off. But as much is at stake in the ongoing debate over global warning and what to do about it as there is in the current dispute...

<p>When I'm walking my dogs or jogging in 8-degree weather, one thought pervades my junk-drawer brain: How do they do it?</p> <p>How do animals big and small survive frigid January weather?</p> <p>Heading snout-first through a blizzard, I imagine myself as a squirrel, mole or weasel -- not a hard thing to imagine, my wife says -- wearing a leotard of fur and trying to survive frigid weather for one full day. Perhaps I would survive, but I'd be cranky.</p>