Posted on 01/12/2009 5:17:41 AM PST by re_tail20
A STEEP temperature drop, a blizzard and a downpour could assail the millions expected to attend Barack Obama's presidential inauguration on January 20, officials said.
"Just given a sunny pleasant 50-degree day, just having that many people around town will be a problem, so any sort of weather issue on top of that is only going to exacerbate that,'' warned Christopher Strong, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
"No matter what happens, we'll be as well prepared as we can be given the enormous potential for crowds.''
Average late January temperatures in Washington fluctuate between minus six and plus four degrees Celsius, while the median temperature sits at about 2.7 degrees Celsius.
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“Average late January temperatures in Washington fluctuate between minus six and plus four degrees Celsius”.....
Just as cold and dead as the U.S. taxpayer.....
It was too cold to even be kinky....
You didn’t horse around?
I’ve never really liked the idea of the ceremony in January. Why don’t we change it to the 4th of July?
Yeah, there's a bad vibe to them, kind of like January space shuttle launches.
Arctic blasts swoop down from the north, kind of like Gog and company.
Wonder if "riding horses" is just a clever way of describing the big horse race.
America = Doyle Lonnegan
Doyle and I played cards on the train one day. He lost! I then took my winnings and invested in the wire rackets.
He was really mad at me for mispronouncing his name and I think that's maybe how he got rattled and lost.
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