Posted on 01/06/2010 9:32:06 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
This beautiful picture of swans walking on a frozen canal in Sale, Cheshire, was sent in to us by Jean-Marie Salmacis. Gallery
More than 16 inches of snow to fall across south...
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Great snow pictures on there, as well. Especially 2 "smiling sheep" in the snow I wish I could show here.
All caused by global warming/climate change. :)
Stephen Davenport, senior meteorologist at MeteoGroup, said: “This is stretching the limits of short to medium term forecasting but so entrenched is this cold-weather pattern that it seems only a major upheaval in the atmosphere will bring a return to something milder.
“Should conditions continue in a similar vein then by March we might just be looking back at one of the coldest winters of the last 100 years.”
When I first saw the photo posted to the thread, I thought “well, that doesn’t look so bad, the street’s clear.”
Then I realized it was a frozen canal.
Did you see the post (on the front page of FR), re: cattle in Scotland?
Yikes.
Five dollars for the head of Gore.
And that’s not all:
Northern Ireland hospitals and gritters stretched to capacity,
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Read more:
An unprecedented number of patients requiring surgery after falling on ice has led to one health trust having to cancel several planned operations.
Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry has treated 102 people who required surgery after slipping on ice in the past fortnight.
The Western Health and Social Care Trust has postponed 26 planned operations as a result.
Staff at accident and emergency departments in Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital and at the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald are also experiencing an increase in patient numbers.
Would think the fate of the swans in the picture would also have the polar bear huggers in dismay.
I actually sent the pic to such a person..innocently.
UK ping!
Yeah cause over there they not only drive on the wrong side of the road, they use boats on it.;)
Weather conditions in Scotland have been among the most severe for 30 years. At least they have coats on.
Caption this..
See 9.
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Nature is beautiful still, even as man makes his own polital fate uglier and uglier.
polital -> political.
Hey, it was just an impression at a glance, give me a break. The boats were snow covered and I’m used to seeing Yank Tank SUV’s, so the scale wasn’t far off. We have Canada Geese in the road here in NC all the time; they’ve stopped flying north in the spring and in some areas are as big a road hazard as possums, racoons or deer. I have all kinds of excuses, lol.
No pictures of drunken British youth face-down in the snow?
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