Posted on 01/04/2010 1:17:38 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Arctic freeze and snow wreak havoc across the planet Snowfall in Kufri, India
Arctic air and record snow falls gripped the northern hemisphere today, inflicting hardship and havoc from China, across Russia to Western Europe and over the US plains.
There were few precedents for the global sweep of extreme cold and ice that killed dozens in India, paralysed life in Beijing and threatened the Florida orange crop. Chicagoans sheltered from a potentially killer freeze, Paris endured sunny Siberian cold, Italy dug itself out of snowdrifts and Poland counted at least 13 deaths in record low temperatures of about minus 25C (-13F).
The heaviest snow yesterday hit northeastern Asia, which is suffering its worst winter weather for 60 years. More than 25 centimetres (10in) of snow covered Seoul, the South Korean capital — the heaviest fall since records began in 1937.
In China, Beijing and the nearby port city of Tianjin had the deepest snow since 1951, with falls of up to 8in and temperatures of minus 10C. In the far north of China, the temperature fell to minus 32C. More than two million Beijing and Tianjin pupils were sent home and 1,200 flights were delayed or cancelled at Beijing’s international airport.
The same far-eastern weather system took its toll of Sakhalin, the Russian island off Siberia, which was hit by blizzards and avalanches. Farther west, in northern and eastern India, more than 60 people, mainly homeless, died of exposure. Thousands of schools were closed. In Uttar Pradesh, the state neighbouring Nepal, the authorities spent £1.3 million on blankets and firewood for needy households.
Western Russia suffered a deep freeze as snow swept across the Baltic and north-central Europe, leaving the worst devastation in Poland, where 13 people died, bringing the toll from the cold this winter to 122.
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“why wouldn’t they just use the EPA to jam this down our throats futher?”
Don’t worry, they will.
Everywhere Al Gore goes, he encounters
1) record snow
2) record cold
ROTFLOL!
Nice to know that it is warmer in Alaska than it is in East Tennessee. Our forecasted high today, 29F, is the average low for the date.
I’d love to see the drip go to the artic and having his caravan stopped and attacked by a pack of polar bears!
lol
That would be a rather biblical ending to Mr. Gore, n’est pas??
“That would be a rather biblical ending to Mr. Gore, n’est pas?”
Particularly if he was killed an eaten! Or if he simply froze to death on a trip to Florida. lol
So much progress in only one year, this is surely why Bambi got the peace prize...........
I understand that Miami went down to 32 degrees recently ;-)
AlGore is like the Peanuts character Pig-Pen but with a cloud of snow around him.........
With icicles in his nostrils ;-)
Oops, only Algore pronouncing the impending warming trends of doom.
No kidding, yesterday a guy in Alaska said it was 32 which
was the same thing we have had in the Carolinas for days.
I also saw it was minus 32 in International Falls this morning. If it stays that cold perhaps Gore’s plane will fall out of the sky when his jet fuel freezes from his Global Warming... he, he, he
Guo Hu, the head of the Beijing Meteorological Bureau, linked this week’s conditions to unusual atmospheric patterns caused by global warming.
Colorful ;-)
OK, you made your point. I no longer believe in AGW. Now whatever you deniers have been doing to the weather, STOP IT! OK?
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