We need to ask Joe Bastardi of Accuweather. His prediction last winter was right on the money for us folks in Michigan.....little snow but lots of cold.
I can handle 35 degrees like I was on a Miami beach in August... But 34 degrees... Ohhh... Well then I guess I better run out and buy a coat right now.
It can’t gt cold. We have global warming. Just ask the paragon of honesty and knowledge, Al Gore.
Good. Maybe this will kill off the poison ivy on my farm.
Blinding Mountain Snowstorm to Unfold in the West
http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/40533/blinding-mountain-snowstorm-to.asp
NWS forecasting ‘normal’ winter temps.
Slightly warmer in the mid-south, slightly cooler in the north and west.
http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/poe_index.php?lead=2&var=t
As a transplanted upstate New Yorker now living in Central Texas, I knew there was a reason I kept all my sub-zero winter gear.
Old Farmers Almanac said a cold winter but not that cold.
We had significantly lower temps all year here in the Pacifist Northwest, and everyone is expecting a particularly nasty winter. Between yesterday and today, there will be about 22 inches of new snow in the Cascades, which is pretty early for that much accumulation at any altitude.
I had 3 cords of firewood delivered this year and we’ve already had the stove fired up several times, especially in the mornings last week when it was in the high 30’s at dawn.
Yeah, and then in the Summer things will get real hot!
These stories are beyond stupid!
Hey, we might get hit by an asteroid too! Woe is us!
I’ll take the bone-chilling cold if it will shut up the “climate change” freak for a year or two.
Yay! That’ll drive all the hippies and Californicators out of my neck of the woods... 30-40 below ain’t good for much, but it IS good for that.
At my work, we’re particularly wary of the upcoming winter season. I work at a company that takes people to and from the Seattle airport. Two years ago, just before Christmas, we had an unexpected major snowfall. It was bad enough that we had major trouble getting up into the hilly areas around Bellevue, Redmond, and the east side, not to mention downtown Seattle. (Someone once said “Seattle must be a city of destiny. Why else would they build one at a 45-degree angle?”)
We had to cut back our service to just the scheduled stops we could get to, as well as designated areas that didn’t normally have scheduled stops. It turned our business on it’s ear for about three days, and produced some of the nastiest, most mean and profane phone calls I’ve ever had the displeasure to receive. Seattleites are normally passive-aggressive, but if you mess with their travel plans, they become gutter-crawlin’, venom-spittin’ MEAN. I mean, you should’ve heard some of the threats we received. Some of my fellow agents left work in tears from the abuse they were getting.
We created a new ‘snow-plan’ after that, and it’s posted on our website, so if anyone has any questions what is going to happen should we encounter those conditions again, they have no excuses like “nobody told me”. And, if the weather-guessers predictions hold true, we’re going to be using that snow plan this winter. I am NOT looking forward to this.