[chessplayer]

DUer's already blaming man-made global warming for it. Expect media to do the same.

[mikrofon]

You KNOW it's cold when ....

[smokingfrog]

‘Polar Vortex’

.. A good name for a rock band.

[Myrddin]

I’m going to hop on my Harley and cruise out to El Cajon. The 60 degree weather in Clairemont is a bit chilly. Should be over 70 in El Cajon.

[EBH]

Lake Erie Channel between Middle Bass Island and North Bass

[MamaB]

When I read about snowy winters, I think of The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder. It started snowing in late fall and continued until spring. They had to twist wheat, etc to have a little heat. I do not see how any survived. I looked that winter up and think it was about 1870 or that period. So, we will always have extremely cold winters. But, we will also have winters which are a whole lot nicer. Weather repeats.

[Elsiejay]

Temp. at Pullman WA dropped to minus 32F on 31 Dec 1959, and didn’t rise above freezing (32+) until about two weeks later. About a foot of snow fell during a couple of hours just prior to the sudden drop. This protective blanket saved the winter wheat crop, the mainstay of agriculture in the Palouse region, from destruction.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks chessplayer.

• IPCC silently slashes its global warming predictions in the AR5 final draft