Posted on 12/07/2005 8:33:42 PM PST by george76
Bitterly cold air spread across the Rockies and Midwest on Wednesday, closing schools, crippling cars and sending volunteers into the streets looking for homeless people to rescue.
In West Yellowstone, Montana, a hamlet on the doorstep of Yellowstone National Park and a frequent icebox, the mercury plummeted to 45 below zero, shattering the old record for December 7 of 39 below set in 1927.
Schools in the Colorado Springs area were closed and many others statewide opened late.
The cold extended south to the Texas Panhandle, where Lubbock had a record low of 6 degrees.
At Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, officials said freezing rain was expected to force the cancellation of hundreds of flights.
"It's just pretty cold," said Charles Bowers, a rancher and cotton farmer near Pampa, a town 145 miles south of Lubbock where it was 10 degrees at noon.
Temperatures read like ice hockey scores in northeastern New Mexico -- zero at Las Vegas and 1 at Raton. "I'm sitting here in my office and it's freezing and we've got the heat on full blast,"...
Elsewhere Wednesday, the weather service said record lows for the date included 28 below zero at Drummond, Montana, 25 below at Laramie, Wyoming, 17 below at Alliance, Nebraska; 19 below at Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and 3 below at Lincoln, Illinois.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Bush's fault for not signing Kyoto. Or something. :)
6 degrees here in eastern KS with about 8 inches on our deck table.
MONTREAL — Thousands of protesters took to the streets in cities worldwide Saturday to demand urgent action on global warming ...
Five environmental groups, including Greenpeace and the Climate Crisis Coalition...
in Montreal urging President Bush and Congress to help slow global warming.
"We're worried about climate change, about ways of life in the Canadian Arctic disappearing," said Sarah Binder of Montreal's Urban Ecology Center.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,177735,00.html
Yeah ... definitely global warming.
"Rockies and Midwest crippled by cold"
Define hyperbole.
It should be making headlines when it's 80 degrees out for days on end in the middle of December, in places like West Yellowstone, Montana.
There is one bright spot to all this. The crime rate goes down with the temperature.
THIS is the time of year that Florida living is very, very attractive...;)
Ho-hum for east central Minnesota.
7 degree temp for a high here yesterday.
Life went on. Work went on. School went on.
It's winter for goodness sakes!
12 below right now at my house in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Nothing new. It is winter.
It even got to So. Cal., I forced myself to wear long pants for the last 2 days, it only got up to 67.
I'd wager any lib would do the same thing! ;-)
It's frickin' cold here! Not fit for man nor beast. The lousy neighbor of my dad's keeps her poor dog out in weather like this. My brother's neighbor does the same thing. I'd like to chain them to a flim flam dog house and keep them out for a few nights.
I spent Christmas 1998 with my brother in Phoenix, Arizona. Wore a polo shirt and khaki shorts, and the temperature was 68 degrees and sunny on Christmas day.
I'm kind of surprised how these low temps are distributed. It was a nice 15 degree day here in North Dakota. Monday morning was a bit colder at -11 but it wasn't a big deal, I just plugged in my pickup's block heater on Sunday night.
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