I had nothing to do with it.
Posted on 02/09/2026 6:57:29 AM PST by MtnClimber
It would be a hell of irony if useless preparation for a nonexistent threat simply set us up for a knockout blow from a real one.
It has been two weeks since western PA experienced a dump of two feet of snow, the product of the continent-wide storm that was supposed to ravage the nation and throw back civilization 500 years or more. That, needless to say, did not happen, at least outside of Missouri, where it would never be noticed. But there is that two feet of snow.
Pennsylvania is in the melt belt, a region in which even heavy snows begin to vanish with a day or two after their appearance. Yet this last snowfall has remained virtually untouched since it hit the ground. Oh, it’s become packed, and has shrunk an inch or two, but otherwise it looks precisely the same as it did when it first came down. Temperatures since the snowfall have been in the low double digits since the storm, dropping into the single digits and even well below zero overnight. The lowest was about -5°.
It’s getting on to four decades since New Yorker writer Bill McKibben published The End of Nature (1989), a popular study of how global warming would affect our relationship with the natural world. McKibben’s theme held that we could no longer speak of “nature,” since the major forcer of events for the planet was now mankind, and that the state of the environment for all time to come would be the result of human activity. Needless to say, he did not consider this an improvement.
What depressed him most was the coming elimination of winter. McKibben loved winter. The snow, the transformation of the landscape, the brisk days. All that was going.
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I was up in Stowe, VT over the weekend.
It was -15 Saturday night.
Many of the ski areas in NY, VT, NH & ME did not operate yesterday because the wind chill was -30 on most of the mountains.
Are you dreaming over seed catalogs yet?
I came home yesterday to my house in southern NH and had to plow my driveway again. Another 4” of snow had fallen over the weekend when we were out of town.
I threw down some ice melter (rock salt and magnesium chloride) on the driveway and sidewalk. I looked out this morning to realize it had not done much. That is because those products to not MELT ice at less than 10 degrees F.
You have to use Calcium Chloride in temperatures below zero.
Driving back yesterday on I89 from VT into NH ever car was just GREY/black. Covered with road rash/salt/dirt. Some so much that you could not read their license plates.
It has not been above 32 degrees here for most of the last month. It has not rained here since the week prior to Christmas. ALL Snow. Light fluffy cold temperature snow.
I currently have about a 2’ feet covering my property.
4’ or more in drift areas. The piles at the ends of my driveway are now 8’ high and deep. After I shovel and plow with my tractor, it then blows back in because of the high winds too.
and 30 degrees feels like a heatwave lol
From your lips to God’s ears. I’m counting the days.
Embrace Global Warming!
Bill McKibben is a real goomer-looking dude.
You do not feel our pain.
I had nothing to do with it.
When the FL cypress trees get their green buds the King Mackerel are in and Spring has arrived.
Not this year, apparently. We have been stuck in a series of "inversion layers" that have kept temperatures higher than normal. They block the sun with high clouds but we have stayed above freezing more than usual. The weather prediction of the Weather App seems useless with this weather.
BTW I try to look up people's Home pages to keep FR interesting. It cannot be that cold in Cuba. ;-)
Joe Bastardi said the other day that spring is just around the corner, but it is a long block.
As I type this post, my furnace is blowing hot air into my very warm home, and I do not take that for granted.
In Westmoreland County, the present temp is a scorching 14 degrees, the snow cover has remained a stable 12-16 inches, and the wind chill factor is somewhere between, bone chilling and skin freezing.
I constantly thank my God, for where I was born, the fact that I had two married, Catholic parents, was raised with strict {the paddle} discipline, and a wife of 60 plus years...in addition to my Trane Furnace. This is not a commercial for Trane, just a post of gratitude, it's nice to be comfortable in your home, in this freezing weather.
20 below here at the homestead, 30 below down in the flats.
I like that. Sounds about right.
Hey! What is with the Mo shot? Are you one of those pig botherers from Arkansas?
This writer suggests -5 in western Pennsylvania is as low as it’s gotten this winter. I drove through Kittanning this morning. It was -15 F. That was the actual temperature, not the wind chill according to the outside temperature gauge on my car. He’s correct that the snow isn’t melting. Maybe some will this week when the forecasts are for temperatures barely above freezing for a couple of days.
These temperatures coupled with nights and days with wind gusts over 30 mph. I’ve been watching one of the power plants in this area that I drive by every morning. It’s still powered by coal. It appears to be operating at full capacity—its four towers are spewing enormous clouds of water vapor every day for the last two months. That’s what’s keeping your furnace filling your home with warm air—that trusty old plant and the coal trucks I pass that are loaded with good Pennsylvania coal that is heading to the plant to keep the lights on and people from freezing to
death.
No windmills or solar panels can manage that.
Imagine how cold it would have been without all of the Global Warming?
That is why they stopped calling it Global Warming™ and started calling it Global Climate Change™ instead.
Global Climate Change is much more flexible than Global Warming or Global Cooling ever were. Is it colder than average today? Is it warmer than average? Wetter? Dryer? Windier? Less windy? Cloudier? Less cloudy? It doesn't matter! No matter what the weather happens to be it is caused by Global Climate Change! Womyn and minorities hardest hit.
The only solution remains the same. Our only hope for survival is more government control, taxes and spending!
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