Are we headed for this?
Cold kills FAR more people than heat. If you aren't killed outright, you slowly starve to death. Remind me again why people are afraid of warming?
Posted on 10/31/2019 7:49:37 PM PDT by Windflier
It isn’t supposed to be this cold in October. The official start of winter is still almost two months away, and yet the weather in much of the western half of the country right now resembles what we might expect in mid-January. All-time record lows for the month of October are being set in city after city, and this extremely cold air is going to push into the Midwest by the end of the week.
Temperatures in the heartland will be up to 50 degrees below normal, and unfortunately about half of all corn still has not been harvested. Due to unprecedented rainfall and extreme flooding early in the year, many farmers faced extraordinary delays in getting their crops planted, and so they were hoping that good weather at the end of the season would provide time for the crops to fully mature and be harvested. Unfortunately, a nightmare scenario has materialized instead. A couple of monster snow storms have already roared through the Midwest, and now record low temperatures threaten to absolutely wreck the rest of the harvest season.
When temperatures get significantly below zero for more than a few hours, scientists tell us that it will kill standing corn…
And right now we are facing a crisis because less than half of all U.S. corn has been harvested.
In fact, according to the latest USDA Crop Progress Report just 41 percent of all U.S. corn has been harvested so far…
In its weekly Crop Progress Report, the USDA pegged the U.S. corn harvest at 41% complete, below the trade’s expectation of 48% and below a five-year average 61%.
Minnesota is behind the most regarding picking corn: 22% vs. a 56% five-year average.
So when I used the term “nightmare scenario” earlier, I was not exaggerating.
The low temperatures that we have seen this week are hard to believe. According to USA Today, the temperature in one community in Utah actually hit 45 degrees below zero on Wednesday…
Subzero cold was recorded as far south as the Grand Canyon on Wednesday morning, the Weather Channel said. Big Piney, Wyoming, plunged to minus 24 degrees before sunrise Wednesday.
Notorious cold spot Peter Sinks, Utah, dipped to an incredible minus 45 degrees early Wednesday. This appeared to be the coldest October temperature on record anywhere in the Lower 48 states, according to Utah-based meteorologist Timothy Wright.
That is seriously cold.
Stupid farmers just need to use the global warming.
So those global warming guys were right - we will suffer crop losses!
Headline: “Worst Harvest in Decades due to Climate Change!”
The smart folks think we’re heading into a Little Ice Age.
The solution, as always, is likely to be higher taxes and increased de-industrialization. Just like Global Warming.
Gonna hit 30 tonight just north of San Antonio. Brrrrrr.
I don’t even own a coat. Brrrrrr.
The corn is already dead. It's been dead and drying. Now the farmers need dry weather and no snow on the ground to harvest it. Frozen ground is ok.
Here in Tennessee, October started out 95 degrees and dry as a bone. Tonight it is wet and down to 29. The craziest October in my life.
Un-possible, we’re all gunna fry. Everyone says so including Gretl Thorninmyside.
“It isn’t supposed to be this cold in October. “
I remember October being freaking cold in the early 80’s.
Especially while trick or treating.
Holy crow was that cold.
And back in the 1600’s to 1700’s it was possible to get snow in October depending on where in the colonies you were.
Are we headed for this?
Cold kills FAR more people than heat. If you aren't killed outright, you slowly starve to death. Remind me again why people are afraid of warming?
Iowa and Missouri had flooding on both sides from the Missouri River and Mississippi River. Then more rain than usual. Hard to get crops in now and hay was hard to get dry to bale. Tough year for those folks.
Goebbels Warming?
I’m sure the Indians would know how to deal with the bitter cold and still have plenty of food. They were wise not to export their crops.
America First! Food, not ethanol!
This article was written by someone who doesn’t know anything about growing corn. The corn has long quit growing and is standing there dead in the fields waiting to be harvested. Unless a windstorm blows it down it will stand there for weeks until it is harvested.
The American Indians knew not to waste their corn making ethanol.
“Tough year for those folks.”
When my dad was a kid he would spend summers on a relative’s farm working for him.
As an adult he told me “Those farmers sure got it rough. Bad weather, and lousy crops and it’s tough to make any money. Good weather and great crops - well, everyone else did too so you can’t get much money for the crop!”
Although later in life I’ve met a few very successful and wealthy farmers - although perhaps they had oil wells on their property?
Dot or feather?
Not that it hardly matters, both had starvation times.
In North America February used to be known as Hunger, Starvation or Bony.
The coldest and shortest summer in 50 years. So much for Global WArming.
Not dependable when you need them to step up.
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