Posted on 02/09/2007 4:33:10 PM PST by holymoly
Really, that 'wind chill' reporting has gotten way out of hand. My guess is that they use it (or overuse it) in order for their reports to sound more dramatic ... "OMMYGOD! It's minus 22 out there!" (when its really +8 with a 15mph wind) ... +8 is still cold, to be sure, but certainly not as dire as -22. Many times while listening to the radio while driving to work, they'll be reporting the 'wind chill temp' rather than the actual temp, it tends to sound more dramatic than it really is, which is the effect that these reporters want to instill
My drains freeze too, I can cope with no water for a day or too but no drain sucks big time.
If it's just the traps, buy some cheap windshield washer fluid and dump a quart or so in the drain when you think it might freeze. I have a cabin that is unused most of the time and that's how I keep the drains flowing there.
Get some 5 gallon buckets. wash dishes and throw it out in the snow. Crap in them and be a little more careful where you throw them. I suggest in the neighbors yard, You know the neighbor that has that big dog that craps in your yard?
LOL.
It's only slightly better here in W. Mich.
We get a bit of warming from the lake. Of course, we also get lake effect, which means I'm on the tractor every other day, pushing snow around.
Our "average" high for Feb. is 31-32F. Our 7-day forecast is for continued 10-15 below "normal".
A local newspaper websites' weather link offers a glimmer of hope - temps may actually reach into the 30s, week after next.
Looks like I better get the Coppertone and cutoffs ready!!!
Exactly. They panicked. The grant $$$ weren't flowing in as they'd hoped because this time the sheeple were a little more skeptical than usual.
A week or so ago, the high temperatures in my neck of the woods were struggling to get above freezing. The same week back in 1951, highs here were in the mid-'60s, and no one was squawking about "global warming" or "climate change."
That may be anecdotal, but so was predicting a major 2006 hurricane season on the basis of a freak season in 2005.
It's just as H.L. Mencken said: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
I think the globe cooled temporarily. Then it became really hot around Christmas. In Minneapolis we are now (post the hot house Christmas) experiencing a cold snap to rival the last one of this length dating back to the 1930's.
If Gore would just come to Minneapolis and give a speech, I think we could break this cold snap. Come to think of it, wasn't he in the neighborhood around Christmas?
Hooey. "Global warming also means colder in other parts." Boy, that theory just covers EVERY contingent doesn't it?
What I think is funny is that the POLAR weather started about a DAY after our dear Arnold declared California a Global Warming STATE. hahahah. Oh it's too sweet.
AGW is the penultimate unified theory, it predicts everything and nothing. They can never be wrong.
Here's my prediction. The Earth will once again glaciate and deglaciate. Wanna bet I'm wrong?
This would be one of the issues that I have with Global Warming, or it's new fuzzier moniker "Climate Change"... In December, temps locally were 10-15 degrees above normal. As per the media, we were all going to DIE from GW/Climate Change.
The last few weeks, temps have been 10-15 degrees below normal. Not a peep about them. It's just winter, and it's cold.
The air is cleaner now than when I was a kid. Global warming is nothing but pork for scientists and politicians.
The cold wind blows, up the stack, and that toilet is tapped directly into the stack.
That's my amateur opinion.
My amateur fix would be to set the float on that toilet so that the water level is low enough not to overflow with a flush, typical "contents" and through the fill cycle.
At least you could get back to bed sooner, and worry about the full, but un-overflowed ceramic fixture, in the daylight hours.
It is not colder because "polar ice melts, drifts into the North Atlantic".
BTW, with all that "melting" going on, the rise in sea level is virtually unmeasurable.
Do you really think that enough icebergs can float from Western Greenland to effect Western Europe and how about Western North America?
Thanks for the advice. I will wait till it thaws out here to reset it though.
Good job. Weather global warming is true or not, challenging idiots to back up their work with solid fact is important.
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