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2014-01-29 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Climate-Change (Winter) Storm Leon - State-by-State Impacts

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Posted by Bobby 2014-01-29 13:09|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 "Climate change." Grrrrrr! %$&@. The climate change advocates would say climate change causes hemorrhoids. The new religion replete with a devil called "climate change" to explain all the evils of the world (and to separate you from your money).

Posted by JohnQC 2014-01-29 14:38|| 2014-01-29 14:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Government fails. Chick-fil-A delivers.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-01-29 15:39|| 2014-01-29 15:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Much depends on a locality's level of awareness & depth of experience. Naturally warmer areas will fumble during severe winter weather.
I moved to OH from NM in the fall of 1976, and was soon caught up in the worst winter of my lifetime. The winter which followed was even worse. People commuting from one side of Akron to the other got stuck in whiteouts and died when they tried to walk a few blocks for help. Some victims did not even have a jacket on when they left their homes. Experiences like these will change how regions respond to weather predictions. The infamous 1978 "winter hurricane" which paralyzed the midwest, particularly Ohio, was mitigated by experiences gained the winter before, e.g. the mayor of Akron banned non-emergency private traffic altogether. This kept cars from blocking roads when they got stuck or broke down, so that police, fire, paramedics, delivery trucks and public transit continued to operate under the worst tolerable conditions. Essential services in Akron continued to work, so that hospitals were staffed, and electric linesmen were not obstructed by traffic jams. Lack of experience accounts for bad judgment.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-01-29 16:37|| 2014-01-29 16:37|| Front Page Top

#4 We are making little tiny ice peeps from sleet captured on the windshields. Kinda depressing actually.

Posted by Shipman 2014-01-29 17:18|| 2014-01-29 17:18|| Front Page Top

#5 It was a balmy 42F when I went to work this morning (Seattle area) - didn't even have ice on the windshield. Of course it's cloudy and gloomy here - but that normal for this area.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-01-29 17:26|| 2014-01-29 17:26|| Front Page Top

#6 The underlying premise of GWCC + any so-called "Mini-Ice Age", which I like to call the "Great/Mighty Asia-Pacific Slushy" is that the latter is but an INTERIM BURP in the Sun being expected to heat up in coming years or decades.

WID MUCHO PERT UNCERTAINTY + DEBATE AS TO WHETHER IT MEANS THE SUN WILL GO INTO SUDDEN-VS-NEAR-VS-LONG-TERM EARLY "RED GIANT" PHASE OR OTHER.

D *** NGED GASSY/FLATULENT/FARTY SPACE ROCKS!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-01-29 21:47|| 2014-01-29 21:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Given the quiet Sun at what should be Solar Max, my money is on another Dalton Minimum - assuming this isn't simply the start of the next Ice Age. Winter is coming.

Posted by SteveS 2014-01-29 22:15|| 2014-01-29 22:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Watching Fox and Megan Kelley ( is that redundant?) and she was talking about Atlanta being shut down for 2 inches of snow; she could do the same story for Seattle; just change the name in the script.
Down here in Tijuana is has been 65 + all day.....really don't want to go back to the NW gray, but home and duty and all that.....

Posted by USN, Ret. ontheroad 2014-01-29 22:47|| 2014-01-29 22:47|| Front Page Top

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