Cold Irony

8 Responses to Cold Irony

1. feeblemind says:

   January 7, 2010 at 8:20 am

   Wonder how many times that has happened since McMurdo Station was established? Is this the first?
2. Gaius says:

   January 7, 2010 at 8:29 am

   Dunno, feeblemind. It is summer down there, but it is still ironic.
3. LYNNDH says:

   January 7, 2010 at 9:34 am

   Tough! Here in Colorado north of Denver it is minus 8. And not I am not in the mountains.
4. NebraskaPatriot says:

   January 7, 2010 at 10:31 am

   How Long Does It Take for a Global Warmist To Freeze Solid?

   ok, even we are getting tired of this . . .

   High today: 0

   Windchill in eastern Nebraska: -22

   Winds out of the North: 35 – 50 mph ALL DAY

   Low tonight: -15

   High on Friday: below zero

   Low Friday night: -25

   WANTED: Global Warmist and tree hunging types

   EXPERIMENT: See how long these yahoos are willing to stand outside today on the principle that Global Warming is settled science

   Here’s an article you will want to read that is in the Omaha World-Herald this morning entitled, “A Persistent Polar Pattern”.

   A couple highlights:

   A little-understood Arctic phenomenon may be behind the worst winter conditions in a quarter-century across much of the United States, near record lows in Omaha and misery from northern Europe to Asia.
   There is more snow on the ground, 21 inches, than in any January since 1948 — the earliest date for which reliable snow records are available.

   The average temperature in Omaha for the first five days of the year has been 3.1 degrees, the third-lowest on record dating to the late 1800s.

   And on Friday, Omaha’s daytime high isn’t expected to climb above zero. That hasn’t happened since 1997, said Ken Dewey, an applied climatologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s School of Natural Resources.

   But as bad as the Midlands weather has been, the southern United States might be faring worse because that region is less accustomed to the cold, said Eric Wilhelm, a meteorologist for AccuWeather Inc., The World-Herald’s consultant.

   The Arctic Oscillation involves atmospheric circulation over the polar region, and its intensity is the strongest in decades, meteorologists say.

   And then let me throw this last one at you: “Michelle L’Heureux, a meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center, said the Arctic Oscillation is one of the least understood weather patterns and is difficult to predict.”

   Really? In 2010, we can not predict the weather? Hmmm, could it be that Global Warming ISN’T settled science after all?

   Say it ain’t so Al . . .
5. feeblemind says:

   January 7, 2010 at 12:12 pm

   Watts Up With That has a post up on the Florida iguanas. They say three days below 40 degrees could kill them. A beneficial side effect of the cold wave.
6. Mockingbird says:

   January 7, 2010 at 2:41 pm

   Help!
   Please send cold beer to the corner of Latitude 30 and the east coast of America!
   Also cocktail sauce.
   Brrrr!
7. martian says:

   January 7, 2010 at 2:58 pm

   O got an email from a friend in the UK this morning that had a link to an article in the local paper in the town where they live Benson, Oxfordshire. It seems that the temperature in Benson (where they are also snowed in BTW) is the same as the temperature in Moscow. Here’s the link to the article:

   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/6945311/Snow-UK-the-Oxfordshire-village-as-cold-as-Moscow.html
8. Boy Named Sous says:

   January 7, 2010 at 11:07 pm

   High today here in Eugene, Oregon of 48, low of 40, had some showers. Rest of the week expected highs in the high 40′s to high 50′s, lows in the mid 40′s, cloudy and light rain. It’s good to live next to the World’s Largest Thermostat.

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