Posted on 01/14/2009 5:13:56 AM PST by nuconvert
MINNEAPOLIS – Temperatures crashed to Arctic levels Tuesday as a severe cold wave rolled across the upper Midwest on the heels of yet another snowstorm, closing schools and making most people think twice before going outside. Early Wednesday, the cold front swept into New York, sending temperatures falling from the 30s a day before to single digits or below zero. It hit 8 below in Massena, on the St. Lawrence River in northern New York, with the wind chill making it feel like minus 25 degrees.
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When it drops like that, they now call it Global Climate Change.
We typically call it Winter. It has been happening every year since the globe started spinning around the Sun.
Pardon my French, but if Al Gore were in front of me now, I’d be shoving him outside into the cold and kicking his ASS!!
We’re at a balmy 9 degrees here in Western PA.
Heard a radio report that the “eco-friendly” fuel they use in local school buses (which contains paraffin wax) tends to harden up in temperatures like this. So they had to send someone to the bus garages in the middle of the night to start up the vehicles to make sure they didn’t freeze up.
I had to laugh.
When I walked outside en route to the hospital after I got beaten up by a bunch of hoodlums for defending a disabled white gentleman on the bus, I barely felt how cold it was outside. I was that pissed off. And I walked 6 blocks to the hospital without any gloves and an open jacket.
We have a balmy +31 degrees here in Raleigh this morning :)
Does snow still squeak when you walk on it at that temperature, or has global warming changed that too?
It’s +14 degrees here in Massachusetts at 9:05 AM.
Now we find out that Al Gore has caused temperatures to drop just by talking about Global Warming and the threat of his carbon offset scam.
Check this one out. Crane Lake Minnesota. They bottomed out this morning at - 41.8 F. There previous record for this date was - 14.0 F in 1998. They beat their record for this date by 27.8 F degrees.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2164256/posts
There. I’m hoping to hear from the investigator tonight on the case.
Excerpt - We were buffeted by record-setting, hurricane-force winds. We were blasted by record-setting snowfall in a couple of blizzardlike snowstorms. Now comes the deep freeze. An Arctic front moved into Western New York overnight, bringing bone-chilling temperatures — and the outside chance of a record low — for the next few days.
Global warming? Not here. Temperatures won’t climb very far out of the single digits until the weekend, and Thursday night’s low will hit a numbing minus-5 degrees.
Thursday and Friday’s ‘highs’ will be in single digits in the Cincy region.
22 this morning, expected to drop as the day continues.
Record-breaking arctic deep freeze sweeps across Prairies, heads for East.
The coldest spot in Manitoba yesterday was Sprague, about 170 kilometres southeast of Winnipeg. The community experienced -43 C -- a record for Jan. 13 that hadn't been broken since 1979.
In northern Manitoba and Ontario, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut, residents were being told to brace for wind chill of -50 to -55 this morning.
Around here, it crunches underfoot. Of course, the really cold air hasn't filtered through Ohio yet - it's supposed to hit -10 overnight Thursday.
That's only sorta cold, though. In December of 1983, we had a ten day stretch when the temperature never rose above 0 degrees. I froze up two different cars on successive days. :)
Northeast Pennsylvania faces its coldest snap in years through the end of the week as frigid air settling into the region plunges overnight temperatures to below zero. The National Weather Service warned the low Friday night could plummet to a numbing minus 10.
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