Here’s how bad winter weather is hurting the economy (2014)

CNBC ^ | 2/5/2014 | Kristen Scholer

[qam1]

Caught a case of the bad weather blues? If so, you aren't alone. Severe winter weather is rearing its ugly head across the country and chilling the U.S. economy.

So far this month, four of six major economic reports have cited the harsh winter as putting the damper on output and sales. Three of the four reports blaming the weather came in worse than expected.

(Read more: Is winter weather really burying the economy?)

Here's a look at weather references in recent reports.

January ISM manufacturing

This report disappointed when it was released Monday, registering at 51.3 versus economists expectations of 56.0. January marked a second straight month of slowing growth after strong manufacturing in the fourth quarter.

[qam1]

Here's a Blast from the past 2014 during the Obama's regime where the press blamed anything for his economic failures including the weather.

Funny I don't see similar articles today about the harsh weather we just had lowering this month's job numbers

[neodad]

Those pesky headwinds a few years ago.....

[RedMonqey]

"Funny I don't see similar articles today about the harsh weather we just had lowering this month's job number”

(Snicker, snicker) Weather only effects Democratic Administrations.

And there's only a homeless problem during Republican terms.

[mountainlion]

Go skiing but stay away form smokey areas in Colorado. The back areas are closed to skiing as there is avalanche danger.

[Pontiac]

I remember when the jobless figures were so bad that Obama had them stop counting the unemployed that had stopped looking for jobs because they had given up hope of finding a job.

Then the Dims started the propaganda machine on the task of convincing young people that not having a job was a good thing.

[Freedumb]

Maybe Joe Biden can tell us if he sees some green shoots.

[nesnah]

Maybe Joe Biden can tell us if he sees some green shoots.

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“All in all we’re going to be creating somewhere between 100[,000] and 200,000 jobs next month, I predict,” Biden said, according to a pool report, adding that he “got in trouble” for a job growth prediction last month. “Even some in the White House said, ‘Hey, don’t get ahead of yourself.’ Well, I’m here to tell you, some time in the next couple of months, we’re going to be creating between 250,000 jobs a month and 500,000 jobs a month.”

Crazy Pedo-Joe April 2010

So, Sloe-Joe the Pedo ain’t really good as a prognosticator.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Wow 2014 - and earlier this week when we were flirting with record low temperatures in the Philly area, it turned out a lot of those record lows came in 2015 - that global warming is just awful, ain’t it.....

[rwa265]

A report on tonight’s NBC Nightly News stated “U.S. adds only 20,000 new jobs in February, new job reports show.” The reporter concluded by saying “Most analysts say the economy is strong, but with few new jobs created in February, there is concern the momentum may be starting to slow.”

Not one mention of the bad whether that we had in February, but a winter mix was raining down on the reporter as he was talking.