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Blizzards could blight Barack Obama's inauguration
The Australian ^ | January 12, 2009 | Agence France-Presse

Posted on 01/12/2009 5:17:41 AM PST by re_tail20

A STEEP temperature drop, a blizzard and a downpour could assail the millions expected to attend Barack Obama's presidential inauguration on January 20, officials said.

"Just given a sunny pleasant 50-degree day, just having that many people around town will be a problem, so any sort of weather issue on top of that is only going to exacerbate that,'' warned Christopher Strong, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

"No matter what happens, we'll be as well prepared as we can be given the enormous potential for crowds.''

Average late January temperatures in Washington fluctuate between minus six and plus four degrees Celsius, while the median temperature sits at about 2.7 degrees Celsius.

(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...


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To: palmer
"Gratitude to Canada for supplying the cold air"

I think it's actually coming out of Alaska, where it was -67 actual temp this morning.

----Is it an "Alberta Clipper" or a "Sarah Slam"?

61 posted on 01/12/2009 7:18:53 AM PST by cookcounty ("A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built." ---Governor Sarah Palin)
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To: re_tail20

Oh good, the Global Warming crowd is going to get to see their theory first hand.


62 posted on 01/12/2009 7:24:28 AM PST by McGavin999
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To: re_tail20

I wish an extremely cold day, high winds, blizzard conditions and raging diarrhea on all of the democrat attendees.


64 posted on 01/12/2009 7:39:03 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: cookcounty
Is it an "Alberta Clipper" or a "Sarah Slam"?

What ever happened to the "Siberian Express"?

65 posted on 01/12/2009 7:42:12 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: re_tail20

Gosh. I sure hope he doesn’t catch pneumonia.


66 posted on 01/12/2009 8:08:57 AM PST by null and void (Hey 0bama, now that you've caught the car, what are you going to do with it, hmmm?)
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To: vetvetdoug
Just hope for the weather they had for Reagan's 1985 Inaugural....wind chill in the -20’s....I was there with a horse in a tent....

Kinky...

67 posted on 01/12/2009 8:10:27 AM PST by null and void (Hey 0bama, now that you've caught the car, what are you going to do with it, hmmm?)
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To: re_tail20

The long range forecast has D.C, being partly cloudy, with a 38 degree high temp, for the 20th.


68 posted on 01/12/2009 8:27:59 AM PST by DGHoodini (Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand)
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To: prismsinc
Obamessiah is having the pervert homosexual Gene Robinson "pray" at the Lincoln Memorial. God is not pleased with wickedness in high places.

Lord, let your displeasure be on full display at the inauguration of Obama on January 20th; Send cold, snow, rain and ice. Let mere man know that YOU ALONE are God, King of ALL kings (and presidents) and Lord of all "lords" and that you take no pleasure in wickedness and unrighteousness. I ask this in the powerful name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen.

69 posted on 01/12/2009 8:32:15 AM PST by Jmouse007 (tot)
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To: Dixie Yooper

Obama’s fans are going to be following in the footsteps of William Henry Harrison.


70 posted on 01/12/2009 8:35:51 AM PST by MediaMole
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To: Dixie Yooper
AFAIK, cold weather won't be a problem for the majority of Obama's voting base...



71 posted on 01/12/2009 8:37:59 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Obamanation: an imploding administration headed by a clueless schmuck)
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To: re_tail20

Accuweather shows a high of 39, and partly cloudy on inauguration day in DC. With no snow all week other than a couple of flurries Sunday night.


72 posted on 01/12/2009 8:40:21 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Guns don't kill people. Criminals and the governments that create them kill people.)
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To: Sacajaweau

My money’s on multiple ‘inauguration events’ for several months-—like Michael Jordan’s fairwell tour.. or Magic Johnson’s retiremnt.


74 posted on 01/12/2009 8:48:06 AM PST by reagandemocrat
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To: re_tail20

The blight is that Obama will be attending.


75 posted on 01/12/2009 8:48:53 AM PST by dforest (Is there any good idea out there that Obama doesn't lay claim to anymore?)
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To: re_tail20

Forget bad weather. I was hoping for something more along the lines of a certain couple scenes from “Independence Day” any time after 1/20/09.


76 posted on 01/12/2009 9:07:38 AM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: reagandemocrat
My money’s on multiple ‘inauguration events’ for several months-—like Michael Jordan’s fairwell tour.. or Magic Johnson’s retiremnt

The best of all was Kofi Annan's farewell tour to the United States. It lasted several months before his visa expired. He might still be here?

77 posted on 01/12/2009 9:21:52 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Kirkwood

DC residents are much more likely to succumb to gunshot wounds than to hypothermia. The Metro system provides warm shelter to many of DC’s chronically homeless.

If it works for them...


78 posted on 01/12/2009 9:24:43 AM PST by maica (Barack Obama is a Weathermen Project.)
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To: reagandemocrat

The Obamedia are calling it Inauguration Week, not Inauguration Day.

Obama has plans to start in Philadelphia with an event, move on to Baltimore (where a Grand Jury has just indicted our mayor) for another public appearance, and then to DC - Lincoln Memorial etc.

The man is an egomaniac.

Perhaps the Secret Service can talk some sense of proportion into him.


79 posted on 01/12/2009 9:28:25 AM PST by maica (Barack Obama is a Weathermen Project.)
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To: Wyatt's Torch

Yes, a frightful blizzard would be nice.


80 posted on 01/12/2009 11:00:13 AM PST by Jenny217
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