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Unforgiving Cold Snap Will Engulf Eastern 2/3rds of Nation Through New Year's Day
The Washington Post ^ | Jason Samenow

Posted on 12/27/2017 8:01:49 AM PST by PBRCat

For many parts of the nation, a prolonged period of punishing cold is just getting started.

The cold snap that descended on much of the nation from the Rockies eastward on Christmas Eve is predicted to become further entrenched and even more biting in the coming days. The worst of the cold may grip the central United States from Saturday through New Year’s Day, when temperatures may fall more than 30 degrees below normal. Then it may spill eastward.

As the Arctic air poured over the Great Lakes, it produced astronomical snowfall amounts. An incredible 53 inches of snow piled up in 30 hours in Erie, Pa., Pennsylvania’s biggest two-day snowfall on record.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chill; cold; coldsnap; snow; temperatures; winter2017
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To: PBRCat
Unforgiving cold snap?

I was not aware that most of the time the weather could grant absolution for my sins.

61 posted on 12/27/2017 10:56:33 AM PST by KarlInOhio (The Whig Party died when it fled the great fight of its century. Ditto for the Republicans now.)
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To: BBQToadRibs

tough on the homeless, too. A woman vet I know with mental issues was released to the streets in Jersey instead of a VA mental hospital last Feb. Not Bbbbrrrrr but gggrrrrrr. Stupid judge.


62 posted on 12/27/2017 11:10:25 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Deplorable American1776
It's so cold, Mrs Deplorable was wearing a bikini swimming!

That's just mean.

63 posted on 12/27/2017 11:24:23 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: PBRCat

Global warming.


64 posted on 12/27/2017 12:35:24 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Doogle

57 degrees here in sunny California. On the way up to a balmy high of 61. Don’t know why I stay here.


65 posted on 12/27/2017 12:40:14 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Jim Robinson

...???...Drats!...tomorrow starting out in the single digits (5-6)....with some wind...nothing above 30 for the next week...


66 posted on 12/27/2017 12:53:46 PM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: PBRCat

Cold? Snow? Nope...not here...I been swimming and fishing.


67 posted on 12/27/2017 2:32:51 PM PST by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: ASA Vet

Minus zero is possible in computers.

Assembler on the univac is

LN,U A0,0

Result in a 36-bit word is 777777777777

Negative zero.


68 posted on 12/27/2017 3:53:27 PM PST by ImaGraftedBranch (The love of many has grown cold. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: PBRCat

Wow - glad I don’t have my newspaper route from sixty years ago in this kind of weather - looking forward to deliveries over three miles each day in 25 degrees for two weeks would have been a major downer - thank goodness we didn’t have this global warming stuff way back then.....


69 posted on 12/27/2017 4:26:05 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: BBQToadRibs

I am about 30 miles west of Minot out in the boonies.


70 posted on 12/27/2017 4:26:25 PM PST by sageburn
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To: DennisR

Lol, yep, I am 35 miles from Kenmare!!!


71 posted on 12/27/2017 4:27:23 PM PST by sageburn
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To: sageburn

My family lived in Donnybrook during my year in 7th grade. Was there when Kennedy was assassinated.


72 posted on 12/28/2017 8:19:51 AM PST by DennisR
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To: usconservative
Sorry...but we had to turn on the heat in the pool. I do miss the snow, but I'd rather see Mrs Deplorable in a bikini than in layers of clothing...😀
73 posted on 12/28/2017 9:38:14 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: rlmorel

“It is December. It is New England. What is the deal here?”

I agree——and still 11 degrees where I am.

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74 posted on 12/28/2017 9:41:46 AM PST by Mears
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To: Jim Robinson
Because if you move from California, California liberals will throw a party, since you are the last conservative in the state? 😀
75 posted on 12/28/2017 9:43:04 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Mears

It was 2 below this morning, but...we are such wimps! I heard it was 36 below zero in Minnesota!

I hear about this, and I think of our Marines, a single division surrounded by 10 divisions of Chinese troops at the Chosin Reservoir in Korea in 1950, with temperatures at 35 below zero, and a wind chill that took it down to around 70 below zero...and I thought...how did they do that? How did they defeat them, outnumbered 10-1, in weather like that? How?

And then you find out that some of those exact same Marines, only five years or so before, had been fighting under conditions on Peleliu in the Pacific, with no water, in temperatures that got as high as 115 degrees, and you think...man, talk about being dealt really bad hands.


76 posted on 12/28/2017 9:54:07 AM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: Deplorable American1776
Sorry...but we had to turn on the heat in the pool. I do miss the snow, but I'd rather see Mrs Deplorable in a bikini than in layers of clothing...

Two comments in response:

1. You're downright MEAN!

2. Pictures of Mrs. Deplorable in her bikini by the pool or it didn't happen.

:-)

77 posted on 12/28/2017 9:59:33 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: rlmorel

IIRC the troops in Korea were ill equipped for the cold weather———as I recall there was much press coverage about this.I specifically remember something about the boots.

Long time ago so I could be mistaken.

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78 posted on 12/28/2017 11:40:36 AM PST by Mears
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To: Mears

I think you are right, they had an issue with some boots that were supposed to help them but ended up causing frostbite because they didn’t breathe, but I might be getting that mixed up with the Battle of The Bulge...


79 posted on 12/28/2017 12:15:28 PM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: usconservative

Sorry...you got to picture Mrs Deplorable in a bikini...we don’t post pictures online.


80 posted on 12/28/2017 6:56:03 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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