Must call Algore now.
Posted on 12/07/2005 8:41:18 AM PST by BenLurkin
DENVER - Bitterly cold air poured southward across the nation's midsection Wednesday, dropping temperatures below zero to record lows from Montana to Illinois. The cold even extended south to the Texas Panhandle, where Lubbock shivered at 9 above zero, toppling a record for Dec. 7 that had stood since 1942, the National Weather Service said.
The body of a homeless man was found huddled next to a fence in Denver, where the temperature hit 11 below Wednesday, and authorities were trying to determine if he froze to death. He apparently had shed his jacket in a phenomenon called "paradoxical undressing," where victims of hypothermia become disoriented and hallucinate, deputy coroner Amy Martin said.
The Denver Rescue Mission opened all available space for the homeless.
A cold front has been creeping southward since the weekend.
In Gunnison, Alec Solimeo tended bar at the Timbers Sports Bar & Grill wearing a couple layers of clothing Tuesday as a faulty heater let the inside temperature drop to 42 degrees. The outside temperature fell to 12 below early Wednesday, the weather service said.
"I'm keeping these travelers happy," Solimeo said, adding that his regular customers apparently stayed home. "They're playing pool, drinking some Irish coffee and doing some singing."
A winter storm warning was issued Wednesday for counties in and around the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where the temperature fell from the low 40s before sunrise to the upper 20s by the end of the morning rush hour. Freezing rain and up to 2 inches of snow is predicted by Thursday morning.
Elsewhere Wednesday, the weather service said record lows included 28 below zero at Drummond, Mont., where the date's previous record was 21 below in 1971; 26 below at Seeley Lake, Mont.; 25 below at Laramie, Wyo., tying a 1978 reading; 17 below at Alliance, Neb.; 19 below at Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and 3 below at Lincoln, Ill.
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My gas heating bill nearly tripled this month.
No you don't. Having lived in Cleveland and Chicago, I KNOW that you have years where you just don't warm up after winter. That's why we are in TN.
I usually take my first cup of coffee outside first thing in the morning. This morning it was 5AM and about 5 degrees.
Nice graphic. Notice how the temperatures in Nebraska are lower than the temperatures further north in the Dakotas. That area of the Great Plains is one of those wretched "40-40" regions of North America (for Canadians, who use the metric system) -- where it can be -40C (-40F) in the winter and +40C (104F) in the summer.
Where are you at? I'm assuming *not* in Sarasota. :)
And the sun hadn't come up yet? You've got Bragging Rights today, cripplecreek.
I'd go ice fishing too but my freezer is already full of ice.
Nope. Northern Illinois.
Wait for albore to declare this record cold the result of warming.
Time to bundle up!
I much prefer global warming...4 years in the Eifel region of Germany was enough for me!
All four deer that I've gotten this year were loaded with fat. Sign of a bad winter, or just good forage and mast this year?
Where were you hunting?
North Central West Virginia
Democrat deer.
Also, all the 'wooly buggers' I saw had little if any brown, all black.
I always got up early to make breakfast for my wife but there are two grumpy morning women here now so I do what I'm told.
We had a drought this summer so I don't think deer put on any fat. The deer out your way must have had a lot of natural food to eat?
"Democrat deer."
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Yep, they were all looking for a free lunch at my friends farm.
}:^)
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