Mexicans bundle up as temperatures drop

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[NormsRevenge]

PUEBLA, Mexico - A cold front moved over most of Mexico Wednesday, leaving coastal cities chilly and windy, and dusting mountaintop towns with snow.

In the central state of Puebla, temperatures dropped to a low of 23 degrees, and more than 100 shelters were opened for residents who live in frigid shacks.

Winter snow is not uncommon at high altitudes in Mexico, including atop the Popocatepetl Volcano outside the capital. But this week's frost dusted buildings in towns that normally don't see such cold weather.

In Mexico City, residents accustomed to 80-degree afternoon temperatures bundled up in winter coats as the mercury dropped to 40 degrees.

[NormsRevenge]

A man carries dried corn stalks covered in snow in the town of Capala Chignahuapan, central Mexico on Wednesday Jan. 2, 2008. According to villagers, it's been 24 years since it last snowed in the region. (AP Photo/Joel Merino)

[DTogo]

Global Warming, of course.

[NormsRevenge]

Paging
Al Gore
Al Gore
White courtesy phone

[kingu]

Damn that global warming!

[Thumper1960]

"Global Warming" and......................

Bush's fault, as usual.

[digger48]

Calentamiento global!!!

[webschooner]

Wobal Glarming,

How Alarming!

Please take away more of our money and our freedoms immediately!

[VOA]

According to villagers, it's been 24 years since it last snowed in
the region. (AP Photo/Joel Merino)

I hope Al Gore tells these humble Mexicans, they must be having delusions.
Or are "on the payroll of Global Warming Deniers funded by Big Oil".

[Balding_Eagle]

One story, or even a thousand such stories, or even a hundred thousand such stories, is hardly a trend, but I’ve long said that if there is a change going on, it’s towards a cooling trend.

Iceage? Who can tell, but I say we are going in that direction, not global warming

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Better start getting the cows to emit more methane - it’s getting downright chilly!

[mylife]

Unusual in Veracrauz, but not unusual for Mexico

[SouthTexas]

Mexicans bundle up as temperatures drop

They ain't the only ones!!!!!

[capt. norm]

The entire "Global Warming" thing is starting to look like a comedy produced by Mel Brooks.

"We're doomed!"

[mylife]

Damn frigid tonight aint it?

[mylife]

Sposed to be a 16 degree wind chill tonight

[grey_whiskers]

And a frost warning for Florida.

(Here in Minneapolis, it was 7 below this morning, but not a word on the local newscasts about "global warming". That'll change when we hit 40 this weekend, though.)

Cheers!

[SouthTexas]

Sure is! Not our typical start to the New Year.

[SouthTexas]

We're supposed to be 26-28 actual temp for eight hours.

That's UGLY!

[Vigilanteman]

Time to trot out the new ice age mantra of the early 1970’s. We are destroying the planet and we’ll all freeze to death unless we put the Marxist elite in charge.

[Inyo-Mono]

In Mexico City, residents accustomed to 80-degree afternoon temperatures bundled up in winter coats as the mercury dropped to 40 degrees.

I was working in my yard yesterday in a short sleave shirt when it warmed up to 40 degrees.

The new Ice Age is coming!