Posted on 02/11/2009 6:37:40 AM PST by atomic conspiracy
AUGUSTA -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Geological Survey and Maine State Climate Office announced today that a minus-50 reading in northwestern Maine held up to scientific scrutiny.
That beats Maine's old record of 48 below zero set in 1925 in Van Buren, and ties the record for coldest temperature recorded in New England. That reading was made in 1933 in Bloomfield, Vt.
The record on New Hampshire's Mount Washington is minus-47.
Maine's minus-50 reading was made on Jan. 16 at a remote site along the Big Black River near the Quebec border as the region was in the grip of a blast of arctic air.
10:09
AUGUSTA -- Just how cold is the record cold in Maine?
NOAA (The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), the U.S. Geological Survey and the Maine State Climate Office will tell us today at a meeting in Augusta.
The question: Does a reading of minus-50 in northwestern Maine, made on Jan. 16 at a site along the Big Black River near the Quebec border, break the all-time record.
We'll have to wait until 11 a.m., to find out what the weather watchers above determined after reviewing the equipment used to make the reading.
The National Weather Service says the current cold record for Maine is 48 below, recorded in Van Buren on Jan. 19, 1925.
Or take up welding.
The previous Maine record was set in Van Brrrrrr-en.
Conclusion:
God hates RINO’S, and those that keep them in office....
Channeling eco-moonbat:
“I am deeply saddened and disturbed to see insensitive, hate-filled racist neanderthals making light of what is obviously just a temporary reprieve for Maine’s polar bear population.”
“Er, Maine has no polar bears.”
“YOU SEE, IT’S ALREADY TOO LATE! YOU BASTARDS!”
funny.
Does this mean we can use the sink, instead of scuttling out to the “necessary”? Even writing your name in the snow is a little difficult with that yellow icicle that forms almost immediately.
Of course, even if you have inside plumbing, the pipes to the septic tank have frozen solid, and the drainage system won’t work anyway.
“Down Easters” are so screwed. But aren’t we all?
Remember as temps drop, that prooves global warming!
Please. When it’s -50, please call it climate change, not global warming.
I prefer to continue to use “global warming” when I am speaking with warm-mongers, as it reminds them how shaky the foundation of their religion is.
Coldest I ever saw in Maine (on the Thermometer) was -38.
Grandmother says that she's seen -55. I believe her....although I doubt that the NOAA (or whoever certifies this stuff) would. Town she lived in was in a valley and could be counted on to be a little bit warmer in the summer, and a little bit colder in the winter.
Now windchill....that's a whole 'nother story. But, as a friend of mine was famous for stating, "Anything below -20 is damn cold, and windchill just gives you something else to b*tch about."
Go figure.
You don’t hear me complaining. I’ve got 50 degrees and rain right now.
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