Yeah, Must Be Due to That “Global Warming”
Here’s your partial forecast for early tomorrow morning, courtesy of AccuWeather.
Those are projected temps – not wind chill.
According to the AccuWeather story accompanying the photo above, this is the coldest weather in parts of the mid-Atlantic since the 1800s. Lo-temp records for the date may fall as far south as Orlando, FL.
Good thing the planet is warming up, eh? (And yes – that last is sarcasm. Bigtime.)
Category: Global Warming
What on earth are you talking about, Hondo? It’s 73F where I am… in my house. That’s why I’m not going outside.
Well, boys and girls, it was -12 when I left the house this morning. You know what we call that here in Minnesota? Thursday.
Dude, no sympathy here. You’re the one who chose to live there. (smile)
Wasn’t looking for sympathy, but with all the sniveling going on, I figured I would put it in context for all the whiners.
(chuckling) Didn’t expect you were, amigo. Just a bit of ribbing, and you obviously knew what you were getting into when you decided to live there.
Some folks like winter; others don’t. To each his own.
I was raised here and have lived in other parts of the country, over the years, but it came down to economics, at the time that I moved back here. The economy was back on track here (late 80’s) and where I was living (Colorado), the economywasn’t doing so good. So, I came back here and have been imprisoned ever since. 🙂
Of course, it makes you appreciate the other seasons much more, but I don’t get to ride my motorcycle as much as I would like.
“the other seasons” – you mean July?
David, I understand that Minnesota – like Alaska – has 4 seasons, just like the rest of the country.
They’re just called “June”, “July”, “August”, and “winter”. (smile)
Rumor has it they are actually called July 14th, 15th, and 16th!
Having spent two years Infantry at Ft Wainwright, growing up in Iowa, and living in Wisconsin for about 30 years I have had it with being so close to the Arctic Circle…
I now live close to the Equator, or closer to that area than I have ever lived, and am enjoying it !!!
-10 In Milwaukee this morning, nope, do NOT miss it !!!
damn right. Wife wants to move “where we can get snow” – I told her “you mean where YOU get to shovel snow – I’m through.”
Around here, our seasons are Winter, still Winter, almost Winter, and road construction.
We’re projected to reach -17 tonight. The windchill this a.m. was -25 at 8am. It’s winter in Michigan, it snows, it gets cold. Been that way every winter I remember.
That said, soon it will warm and Construction will be upon us.
And the motor on my central heat burnt out yesterday. HVAC guy came out, but needed to get a part to repair it. We spent the night under about six blankets.
Three Cheers for MANBEARPIG.
Hip, Hip, HOORAY!
Hip, Hip, HOORAY!
Hip, Hip, aw fuck it.
They say that Lake Ontario hadn’t reached it’s regular temps from the “cool” summer (Didn’t NASA say it was the hottest since….blah, blah, blah) and much more of the surface is very frozen…
Um…it’s win-terrrr!!
Has anybody heard anything from Rocky and Bullwinkle as to how cold it is in Frostbite Falls?
If so, give us a SITREP.
No, but the penguins in Antarctica in February 1952 were photographed gasping in 45F heat.
Got up at 0500 this morning and it was -11. Sheep trough was frozen solid, chicken water frozen solid, cattle trough frozen 6 inches deep. Cleared the troughs, fed some hay, loaded the outside wood boiler with wood, moved sheep to a more protected paddock and threw some ice melt on the walks. 2 hours later……breakfast.
I retired from Fort Richardson (now JBER)and about a year before I retired we flew to Minneapolis from Anchorage, rented a car and drove down the center of the country looking for a place to settle. MN was too cold, we looked at some great places in Iowa only to find out the beautiful old farmhouse and barn was only sitting on 3 acres and was surrounded by factory corn (or a hog impoundment nearby)and got all the way to Louisiana.
On the return trip we found a nice farm in the southern Missouri Ozarks where it was warm most of the year, mild winters, little government interferon in the pursuit of happiness and it was cheap to live.
In the 5 years since I retired we have had 3 record breaking cold and snowy winters here while Alaska has had 3 record breaking warm winters and this winter we have been colder than Anchorage for most of the winter. I cant win!
You bring up a good point about AK (and the north east pacific region warming). It is really happening and many on the one side of the global warming issue point at the west coast as proof that cold in the east doesn’t negate their assertion that globally the world is warming.
Unfortunately actual science going on up there disagrees with them. Turns out it is a natural process caused by shifting winds. NOAA has a good article about it up on their website https://swfsc.noaa.gov/news.aspx?Division=FED&ParentMenuId=54&id=19504
Models that use anthropogenic forcings cannot reconcile the observed data in the Pacific. You know that little body of water whose temperature drives about 50% of globes weather?
I don’t doubt that polluting the atmosphere is a bad thing. I don’t doubt that over a long enough time scale, it might even change the climate. But I have a serious problem when the models that they say ‘prove’ it, can’t reconcile regional climate for nearly half the planet.
I agree completely. I was talking to some old timers here yesterday when I was on a medical call and they said these winters are like they used to be around here in the 50s and 60s.
But man, you would think from the news that the world is ending because its a bit cold.
I’ve got seven words that are a more serious problem for those models, OSC(SW) Retired: “Maunder minimum”, “Daulton minimum”, and “Medieval warm period”.
They come up with a model that accounts for those (and the protracted cooling periods accompanying the two minimums) that predicts general global warming, I might listen. Until then – um, no. The planet has previously been far warmer on average than it is today – as well as far colder – before man ever existed. Kinda hard to blame those previous climate extremes on man’s actions when man wasn’t yet around.
Personally, I think that for the most part, “It’s the sun, stupid.” I could be wrong – and so could the global warming “prophets”.
But at least I’ll admit that much. They won’t.
I won’t be satisfied unless and until they can come up with a reasonable way to say what the temperature is in San Diego on any given day. They are welcome to pick.
The daily newspaper in San Diego reports 4 temperature ranges, every day, for a total typical range of at least 30 degrees Farenheit. Granted, San Diego is a location where there is a mixing zone between the Pacific Ocean and the coastal desert, but that is exactly the point. There is inherent error in any temperature that is related to the nature of the system, and not the instruments used for measurement. Taking more measurements does not reduce the inherent error in the system.
The blockheads, think they can take the temperature measurements from stations as much as 100 miles away, and just substitute them in for real measurements, do not qualify as scientists, in my view.
Alaska is having such a warm winter this year they are having to start the Iditarod in Fairbanks instead of Anchorage due to lack of snow and open water on the route.
Brother, that just means you’re cursed.
It’s winter. It’s cold. It’s been worse than this. Records get broken and new records are made all the time.
We’re getting Siberian air coming right across the Arctic circle, straight from Irkutsk. I guess the good people of Yakutia and points east wanted to share the bounty with us.
Remember all those speculations on how early native tribes came here? It was supposed to be along a corridor of open land on both sides of the Rockies or something like that, from Alaska. Well, guess what’s open now?
It’s winter. It’s cold and we sometimes get a lot of snow, sometimes next to nothing. I don’t understand what’s so astonishing about it, except that the majority of people (especially in cities) don’t pay attention to natural events that would clue them in to what is going to happen.
E.g., red sunrise – lots of moisture in the air, probability of rain/snow is very high.
Sundogs in the sky, usually at sunrise – expect rough weather within 3 days. I ignored that just once and got caught in it. Learned the hard way.
Mackerel sky – cirrus clouds, coming ahead of a storm.
A hazy sun in the summer and ice dropping out of cirrus clouds in July signals colder than usual temperatures up that high plus high moisture levels.
Mammatus clouds – possible hail, especially if the mother cloud is dark.
I guess it’s the inconvenience of having to bundle up and wear protective clothing instead of running around in bitter cold wearing inappropriate footwear and no gloves, scarf or hat that upsets people, and they have to blame someone for the inconvenience caused by seasonal changes.
Boohoo.
In my line of work, weather is a very big deal, and we generally get busiest when it’s most erratic. We are trained to observe everything in the sky, from which way the flags are flapping (wind speed and direction) to cloud indicators (altocumulus castellanus is a precursor to thunderstorm development, AKA Cumulus Overtimus), to use Kestrels and Belt Weather Kits (never leave home without mine), to observing long-term patterns.
While everybody back east is complaining about the cold, California is experiencing another Indian summer, albeit not as bad as last year. We actually got some snow this time around, though way less than usual. The old timers have seen this before and predict that next winter will be cold and wet again. Coupled with the forecasted solar activity, or lack thereof, I’m thinking my daughter will get a lot more cold acclimation than I ever got.
There’s also a study that suggests that the Arctic Ice Sheet continued to expand and shrink as the seasons changed each year during the Mega Ice Age. This despite the fact that continental ice sheets covered large sections of North America. That continental ice sheet was not always uniform throughout North America. There were corridors available which would’ve made transit from Siberia possible.
The Potomac froze during the Revolutionary War, and probably has done so from time to time since then.
This weather is NORMAL.
That’s because we were in the tail end of a mini ice age.
Actually, we were about to enter the Dalton Minimum during that time.
Hell yeah it’s global warming.
cuz when i look out my balcony to the temperate 70 degree californe coast climate I think. “The rest of world used to be like this.”
But don’t forget: you have to put up with the granola (fruits, nuts, and flakes) in order to live there. (smile)
Only in certain areas (the ones they show on TV–LA, SF, Berkely).
Unfortunately, the walking granola (fruits/nuts/flakes) in those coastal enclaves of idiocy by and large elects the people who make CA’s laws.
Sorry, but unless things change dramatically I’ll never live there – and may choose not to visit again very often if ever.
It was so cold at Fort Stewart this morning (23F) I had to wear silkweights and gloves! High is in the thirties with an expected record low tonight of 19. Then mid-sixties Saturday and high seventies Sunday. 🙂
I remember those days (I was at HAAF).
Ah, “Camp Swampy”. I knew it well. (Back in the 24th ID era)
Frozen swamp. That was a learning experience.
You are at Steward? Man, I thought you retired, living in Louisiana, lol.
It was so cold this morning in Green Bay the batteries in my outside thermometer froze and I don’t know how cold it was. Winds were very light so I think the windchill was above -35f. Or the kids would be off school. The Ground was really making noise last night, happens when the frost starts to set in really deep. Sounds like the foundation walls are cracking. Last year frost hit really deep at around 8 to 9 feet in plowed areas on streets. Lots of water lines froze in some older neighborhoods. The utility company states on my bill its 27% warmer than last year, but the year before was the same. We average above 5000 heating degrees days a season. Winter…global cooling in the north….summer global heating in the north… Global change…I agree, it’s called winter and summer, changing seasons. Now somebody pay me a million dollars for my research.
Sorry, no can do. You didn’t blame Bush. You didn’t even get the booby prize by blaming modern technology.
It was so cold …. JimW’s words froze right out of his mouth and broke when they hit his newly-shoveled sidewalk.
(^____^)
It’s so cold tonight that the flames in my fireplace are frozen to the log. And we have to rub the flames to stay warm.
Here in Utah, we got our sub-zero temps for a week, back in December (or thereabouts).
Now it’s spring weather two months early, with little to no snow. ANd we NEED that snow in the mountains for our summer water.
SOOOOO. . . if any Gubbment entity wants to get busy, and ship/truck/rail some of that snow Back East, to us in the Rocky Mountain West, we’d be MORE than happy to accept it.
You can have the glacier in my front yard and the other one in my back yard. I’m tired of looking at them.
The snow on the rooftops is thinning, but we’re supposed to get more tomorrow. Keeps the house toasty warm. Glad I had the furnace man come ahead of the cold weather, too.
In my area of the country, it’s extremely rare for the snow to stay on the ground and be so frozen that you could walk on top of it without sinking. In fact, that’s the first time that has happened since I came to this area almost a quarter of a century ago.
Hondo says ‘Yeah, Must Be Due to That “Global Warming.”‘
Now you know why they went from Global Warming to Climate Change. This way they can blame anything unusual on CAGW.
Some folks, on the other hand, favor Extreme Weather, which sounds like some sort of outdoor sport.
Personally, I like it when the weathermen get all breathless about the extremes in temperature or precipitation (snow and/or rain) and other things, like breaking old records. I keep wondering if that’s simply short-term memory loss or conveniently forgetting similar events that happened maybe 40 years ago.
For instance, the Mississippi River froze early this winter. Someone was nice enough to provide pictures to a local TV station of barges stuck in the ice, waiting for a breaker. The weather peeps acted like it was just amazing to see that. Unfortunately for them, it’s happened before. January 1976, I was in London, UK, and the BBC news had a brief story with videos of at frozen Mississippi River with barges stuck in it.
I’m sure there are records of the Great Lakes freezing in the past, ditto Niagara Falls.
It’s winter. It gets cold. Sometimes it snows a lot, sometimes not at all. The Canada geese haven’t gone all the way south yet.
I think I will hibernate some more and read some good books.
This the first time since I’ve been in this area that the weather is persistently been under 30° F mark, mostly in the teens and lower 20s. The temps are well under my primary MOS and are going to sink under my secondary MOS. We had a snowstorm on Presidents’ Day which basically shut down the local, state, and federal government sections of the metropolitan area at all levels. It was like having an extended President’s Day weekend. On another note, I remember watching a documentary on pythons. They threw the “global warming” mantra into the show by suggesting that pythons would spread throughout North America with the help of “global warming.” I scientific experiment proved that assumption wrong. They did an experiment to see how pythons would handle northern Florida winners. They had to cancel the experiment as they had lost the majority of the test subjects. They had to save the lives of their surviving subjects. Now the deep-freeze is reaching more than half of Florida. So much for that rapid rise of pythons throughout North America in the wild. 🙄 This is just a “preview” of the coming winners. Were either at the in or the final stages of the current solar cycle maximum and the current El Niño. The point at which we sink deeper into the current mini ice age is just around the corner. Don’t let the warming of the West Coast of this continent fool you. That’s a part of the El Niño effect. People have already died because of the deep-freeze on the eastern part of North America. With the heavy-handed regulations that the EPA is subjecting many of our energy producers to, that casualty count will go up in future winters. There’s going to be an increase in demand on the power grid for heating. When you reduce the amount of suppliers in the face of increased/above average demand, you risk rolling blackouts in the middle of a deep-freeze. This came close to happening in Europe during the deep-freeze of February and March 2012. That lost hundreds of people. Their power… Read more »
Not a good idea to click “Post comment” without looking over a post generated via speech to text software. 🙄
‘They had to cancel the experiment as they had lost the majority of the test subjects. They had to save the lives of their surviving subjects.’
(Falls off chair, laughing self silly.)
Weren’t fire ants supposed to overwhelm the south, or something, because of ‘global warming’?
I find it curious that records clearly record a nasty blizzard in 1887, one which started with Canadian air in the Great Plains states and moved eastward, through Chicago (swamped the city) and into New York City, where people literally froze to death in the streets because if they did not report to work, they’d get fired.
There are photographs of that blizzard. The photos from NYC and Boston are almost identical to the 1887 photos. Ditto, the 1967 Chicago blizzard, which was much worse than this, and the 1978-1979 blizzard which shut down O’Hare Airport, also worse than this.
So why is it, when these things happen repeatedly, the past is ignored when it should be closely re-examined? And why is it ALWAYS such a big surprise to the current inhabitants?
I can understand it when people are gobsmacked at three feet of snow in the Atacama Desert, because it has not happened in millenia and yet, it’s happening now on a regular basis.
But up here, in the USA, where heavy snow is NOT an unusual occurrence – why does it always come as a surprise?
Am I missing something here?
Yup, like the North American heatwave of 1936, where even Canadians suffered 100+ F temps, farmers were unable to do their jobs, people were sleeping outside (Both US and central southern Canada), etc. This summer is still the hottest summer on record.
In fact, prior to one of the battles of the American Revolution, the Army did a field measurement of the weather… well above 100+ F in that New England battle field before the heat index was factored in.
Then we have the mild, almost non existent winter where farmers were working their fields, breaking and preparing the farm ground, in the US in December and January. I don’t remember which year that was, but it was in the late 1800s. Winter did come around and it hit with a vengeance.
In 1887, and the late 1800s in general, we were coming out of the last mini ice age.
I’ve been telling folks for years that we’re not just going to be seeing the kinds of winters that we grew up with (Gen X, Baby Boom, and older), but the kinds of winters our great great great great etc grand parents experienced.
Not long ago, Astronomers discovered that the Polar Ice Caps on Mars were also melting and there isn’t a single coal-fired power plant, SUV, or Diesel engine on that entire planet, what gives?
They can’t explain that recent cloud sighting on Mars, either.
It’s aliens, isn’t it? I’ve seen ’em.
George Bush did it.
What ISN’T GW Bush’s fault in the mind of any moonbat liberal, let alone 0bamites?
Q: How many 0bamites does it take to change a light bulb?
A: NONE, they’d rather sit in the dark and blame Bush!
I’m stealing this one.
its the nude, dancing Martin midgits…
I wish I could buy some global warming. Working out in -26 weather is the worst.
Wear something fleecy, like fleece sleep pants. You can get them at Walmart for $10. They don’t all have ‘Hello Kitty’ on them, either.
Thanks, Accuweather! Belichick is right about you guys. I prepped for -6 and it was -8!
GLOBAL WARMING REPORT FROM NYC:
Temp: 1 dregree
Wind Chill: -15 to -20 degress.
That is all!