The Midwest and Northern Plains get socked hard with snow and severe cold - on October 10th! – and is set to get hit again tomorrow.
Another preseason snowstorm will develop in the Rockies late Saturday night and move into the Plains on Sunday where another several inches could fall and greatly impact travel.
Already, one snowstorm moved through the northern Rockies on Friday night and into the Plains on Saturday morning where several inches of snow fell. In fact, snow was reported as far east as Des Moines, Iowa.
This is very unusual and very, very early. How cold is it right now? Well, in Missoula, Montana, records fell – all time records. As in it has never, ever been this cold this early.
If the Weather Service’s forecast model is correct, it’ll drop to 3 degrees in the wee hours Saturday morning. The record low for Oct. 10 is a steamy 20, set in 1973.
Likewise, in more than 100 years of checking, the thermometer has never failed to climb above 38 on this day. Expected high this time: 32.
“Looks like that one is in jeopardy too,” Nickless said.
Inquiring minds want to know exactly where Al Gore is right now.
Mark Steyn predicts the future:
The most popular headline at the Real Clear Politics Web site the other day was: “Is Obama Becoming A Joke?” With brilliant comedic timing, the very next morning the Norwegians gave him the Nobel Peace Prize. Up next: His stunning victory in this year’s Miss World contest. Dec. 12, Johannesburg. You read it here first.
For what, exactly, did he win the Nobel? As the president himself put it:
“When you look at my record, it’s very clear what I have done so far. And that is nothing. Almost one year and nothing to show for it. You don’t believe me? You think I’m making it up? Take a look at this checklist.”
And up popped his record of accomplishment, reassuringly blank.
Oh, no, wait. That wasn’t the real President Barack Obama. That was a comedian playing President Obama on “Saturday Night Live.” And, for impressionable types who find it hard to tell the difference, CNN – in a broadcast first that should surely have its own category at the Emmys – performed an in-depth “reality check” of the SNL sketch. That’s right: They fact-checked the jokes. Seriously. “How much truth is behind all the laughs? Stand by for our reality check,” promised Wolf Blitzer, introducing his in-depth report with all the plonking earnestness so cherished by those hapless Americans stuck at Gate 73 for four hours with nothing to watch but the CNN airport channel…
Do read the whole piece, Steyn gets snarky after that gentle start.
Why stop there, though? Why not crown Obama as Miss Universe and declare him winner of the World Series, World Cup and the Superbowl as well! Let’s make it a clean sweep. Meanwhile, I’m off to collect my Pulitzer, which I have always intended to win.
Environment | Gaius October 10, 2009 | 
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