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.
He was in Madison, WI, on Friday.
Predicted to go to 23 degrees F tonight. I wonder if the irony even reaches him.
Nah.
The cracks are beginning to show. It looks like Algore has lost the BBC. (Really.)
30 at my house at 11:00 a.m. today. We received a good inch yesterday and most of it is still here. Around North Platte I heard rumors as much as 18 inches fell. And to think, last Monday, the Saturday forecast was for sunny and 77. Weather forecasts are predicting warmer weather in several days. Have to see it to believe it. Feels more like Dec 11 than Oct 11 for sure.
Here in NE Ohio we had to run the A/C for maybe 1-2 weeks tops. More rain than usual for the last few years. Obviously cooler.
Slept with the window open at night and loved it.
Grass stayed green. Nice tomatoes. Garden and weeds thrived.
The whole GW Climate Change thing is a money/power grab. More people need to see how opposition is silenced to their ‘findings’.
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That BBC thing is major. If, and I mean IF…. we have a cold winter overall to such an extent that it simply cannot be ingnored, and current trends seem to favor that –
The GOP by God MUST, HAS TO, I’M BEGGING shout it from the rooftops at every opportunity: You are being led and duped by people that don’t have the foggiest clue what the hell they are talking about, and haven’t since day one!!!
We have all watched the cute metamporphosis of “Global Warming” into “Climate Change”, but it won’t wash, and they know it. “Global Warming” was clear and specific: Earth heats up, melts ice, less ice reflects less sun, more heat trapped, Earth warms more, etc etc. They, and Mr. Gore, and his little docu-song ‘n dance, were very clear about that.
And they were, it is rapidly shaping up, dead wrong. The exact opposite seems to be occuring.
If the GOP and/or other opposition cannot clarify that fact and capitalize on it, then it probably is time to just throw in the towel and be done with it, commence bunker building.
The heck with all the global warming nonsense, it’s 94 degrees today in excessively sunny SW Florida, but don’t feel sorry for me, my AC is in great shape and my beer’s on ice.
It’s way too warm for any even moderately active outside work, so I for one am looking forward to cooler weather, say about 60-65 at night and mid-to-high 70s or low 80s and partly cloudy skys during daylight hours. You know, that famous winter weather in the Sunshine state, hands down it’s the best time of the year, and the fishin’ ain’t bad either.
You are exactly 60 degrees higher than where I live at the moment. Thankfully, the furnace is working just fine. I don’t need ice for the beer, though. I can set it outside for a short time and have a frosty one in a few minutes….