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It would be a hell of irony if useless preparation for a nonexistent threat simply set us up for a knockout blow from a real one. It has been two weeks since western PA experienced a dump of two feet of snow, the product of the continent-wide storm that was supposed to ravage the nation and throw back civilization 500 years or more. That, needless to say, did not happen, at least outside of Missouri, where it would never be noticed. But there is that two feet of snow. Pennsylvania is in the melt belt, a region in which even...

...Extreme temperature variations have occurred on Earth during the last few million years because of its extended Ice Ages which included brief warm periods that continue until now. Researchers conduct their studies on climatic patterns to forecast upcoming climate variations that will occur during the next several hundred years. Earth maintains a constant temperature throughout time. The planet follows natural cycles which repeat approximately every 100000 years throughout its history of millions of years. The planet spends most of its time in a Glacial Period which lasts through Ice Ages except for brief warming periods that last 10000 to 15000...

Hosting the Winter Olympics will be more challenging in the future as global warming impacts host cities traditionally known for climates suitable for competitions such as skiing and snowboarding, according to climate scientists. The 2026 Winter Olympics are about to kick off, but the Milano Cortina Games will take place in a much warmer world than in years past. Average temperatures in Cortina, Italy, have risen by 6.4 degrees Fahrenheit since the region first hosted the Winter Olympics in 1956, according to a recent analysis by Climate Central. The warming trends have led to fewer freezing days and a shortage...

The No. 1 job of a mayor, above everything else, is to keep his or her city functioning. Yet with people dying on the cold streets of New York and trash building up in parts of the city, New York is by no means functioning. Not even close. The snow and frigid temps have tested Gotham’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani and, alas, he has not risen to the occasion. Rather, he’s left the city a mess. Everest-size mountains of garbage have popped up. Unremoved snow, ice and road salt have damaged Con Edison electrical equipment, contributing to power outages. Most...

THE TERM "EXTREME WEATHER CONDITION" SHALL MEAN: (A) (I) ANY PERIOD FOR WHICH THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN OFFICIAL WARNING OR ADVISORY FOR EXCESSIVE HEAT, DEFINED AS A FORE- CASTED HEAT INDEX OR REAL-FEEL TEMPERATURE OF NINETY DEGREES FAHRENHEIT OR HIGHER; OR (II) ANY PERIOD FOR WHICH THE GOVERNOR HAS DECLARED A STATE OF EMER- GENCY UNDER SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW RELATED TO EXTREME COLD, STORM, FLOOD, WILDFIRE SMOKE, OR OTHER SEVERE WEATHER EVENT; AND (B) THE SEVENTY-TWO HOUR PERIOD FOLLOWING A PERIOD UNDER PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION. 2. (A) IN A PROCEEDING TO RECOVER...

Orlando International Airport was forced to ground all flights on Sunday afternoon after “extreme cold” sparked an emergency in the air traffic tower. The FAA issued an alert about the ground stop due to a “possible fire” at an air traffic control tower early Sunday afternoon, but the order was lifted at 4:15 p.m. after the cause was determined. In reality, the extreme cold — currently 43 degrees — caused a spinkler head in the fire suppression system at the facility to activate. The agency had sent out a bare-bones “fire alarm/safety” advisory that a tower was evacuating due to...

When will they learn? Making pointless Net Zero gestures is apparently more important than wasting hard-earned taxpayer money on ridiculous electric buses that DON'T WORK when it gets cold..

The arctic air mass entrenched over the Great Lakes has resulted in ice expansion across the lakes over the last several days. As of January 26, total ice coverage on the Great Lakes is about 43.2%. Lake Erie, the shallowest, has over 90% ice coverage. Most of the lakeshore of Lake Huron is at least 90% ice-covered, with fast ice covering the entire Saginaw Bay. The Straits of Mackinac are mostly ice-covered. The nearshore areas of eastern Lake Michigan, including Grand Traverse Bay, have spotty ice coverage. Lake Superior is about 30% ice-covered. The arctic air and well-below normal temperatures...

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday toured a southern town in Sicily where days of heavy rains from a cyclone triggered a massive landslide that cleaved off the town's edge, collapsing houses and forcing the evacuation of over 1,500 people.

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Three young brothers, all elementary school students, died Monday after falling into an icy pond in North Texas amid a winter blast, authorities and family members confirmed to Fox 4 News. The Bonham Fire Department said first responders were called to a freezing pond in Fannin County, about 60 miles northeast of Dallas, where they found the boys in the water. Family identified the victims as brothers 6-year-old Howard, 8-year-old Kaleb and 9-year-old EJ.The boys’ mother, Cheyenne Hangaman, told Fox 4 News about her desperate attempt to save her children.“I started running toward the pond, and I jumped in. I...

The wife of a prominent lawyer was one of six killed in a horror private jet crash on a snowy airport runway. Tara Arnold, 46, wife of personal injury attorney Kurt Arnold, died along with several of her friends on a girls' trip to Paris. The Bombardier Challenger 650 business jet went down during takeoff from Bangor International Airport in Maine about 7.45pm on Sunday. Dramatic footage showed the burning wreckage of the plane upside-down on the runway. Flight data showed it veered right during takeoff and flipped at 175mph. The FAA earlier on Monday incorrectly said there were eight...

A missing Kansas elementary school teacher was discovered dead in the snow just 300 yards from where surveillance footage last captured her Friday as a massive winter storm swept the country. The body of 28-year-old Rebecca Rauber was found covered in snow in a wooded area of Emporia on Sunday, near where she was last seen leaving a bar days earlier, police told KWCH. Police said Rauber was located by K-9 Daisy of K-9 Search and Rescue Kansas. Rauber, a second-grade teacher at Riverside Elementary School, is believed to have died from hypothermia just hours after she disappeared. Police said...

Eleven thousand flights canceled. Fifteen tragic deaths associated with the storm so far. Frigid Arctic air is settling in behind it - here in NW Florida, we just hit 40° a little over an hour ago for the first time all day after mid-30s with steady gusts as high as 30 mph (real feel temp 34°). We have 24° forecast for a morning low - NIPPY! Mississippi got hit hard, with almost three inches of ice. Classes in Oxford have been canceled until the second of February. Tennessee and Louisiana have line crews clearing trees from ice damage as well....

PJM has issued precautionary alerts and continues to operate through the wide arctic system that is bringing extreme cold temperatures, ice and snow through next weekend to the region PJM serves, spanning 13 states and the District of Columbia. Between Jan. 23 and 27, and possibly extending through Jan. 30, temperatures are expected to reach single digits throughout the RTO and below zero in PJM’s Western Region. Peak demand has the potential to exceed 130,000 MW for seven straight days, a winter streak that PJM has never experienced. U.S. Department of Energy OrderThe order allows PJM to run all electric...

At least three homeless New Yorkers were found dead in freezing temperatures Saturday morning after Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul rebuffed a federal assistance offer from the Trump administration. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reached out to New York ahead of the major winter storm sweeping the country. Hochul responded on X by demanding immigration enforcement changes as a condition for accepting help. “Secretary Noem offered assistance to New York ahead of the impending snowstorm,” Hochul wrote on X. “I shared that the fastest way to help is for ICE to back off so people feel safe accessing warming centers, shelters,...

President Trump cited a major winter storm forecast to impact about two-thirds of the United States as evidence to suggest that global warming does not exist, repeating a misleading claim that has been consistently debunked by climate experts. In a Truth Social post on Friday, he said, "Record Cold Wave expected to hit 40 States. Rarely seen anything like it before. Could the Environmental Insurrectionists please explain — WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???" Climate scientists say Mr. Trump's statement conflates short-term weather trends with long-term climate changes. The unusually cold air spilling into the United States is an example of...

When Christian Bryson needs quick weather information, like for this weekend's massive snowstorm, he doesn't wait for the 5 p.m. local newscast. Instead, he turns to Ryan Hall."It's as if he's sitting in the living room with you tracking the storm," said Bryson, a 21-year-old meteorology student at the University of Tennessee at Martin.Hall, who goes by "Ryan Hall, Y'all" on his social media platforms, calls himself a "digital meteorologist" and "The Internet's Weather Man." His YouTube channel has over 3 million subscribers. Hall did not respond to a request to comment about his platform.Hall is part of an increasingly...

With roughly two-thirds of the United States under some form of winter weather alert, energy experts are warning that a surge in heating demand could deplete America's natural gas reserves. Why It Matters The United States relies on natural gas as its primary residential heating fuel and as a major source of electric power, so an extreme cold blast can simultaneously push up demand and constrain supply, creating rapid drawdowns from storage that help balance the system. Analysts said the expected demand surge, combined with possible production declines from freeze-related disruptions, could produce one of the largest weekly declines in...

Nobody seems to have begun a thread for the snowstorm that is forecast for this weekend, so I thought I would. Where I live (DC Metro area) a big snowstorm is relatively rare. We're the ones who don't really know how to drive in it because we don't get a lot of practice; and we also crowd the grocery store and wipe out the shelves - often for stuff we don't really need, and for a forecast that doesn't amount to much but flurries. But once in a while, we really get whacked; and I think this may be one...