At least as far as we know, this is Gus’ first snowfall. I’m here to tell you he’s not too crazy about it.
I had to carry him to the street which was moderately clear. He did his business then as I started back up my driveway he just stood in the street. I had to pick him up and carry him about half-way up the drive. I set him down and rather than walk on the somewhat shoveled path on the driveway he darted onto a diagonal, but direct, course for the front door. I guess he thought the fewer steps the better.
We got 3–5 inches of snow overnight. That’s not too bad, but the wind is blowing 30–40 mph and the temperature is dropping from near 30 yesterday to around zero tonight. Single digit highs on Friday and below zero expected Friday night. They’re saying it hasn’t gotten below zero here in ten years. I didn’t think it had been that long.
I’m in Omaha and we’re sitting at about 3 degrees…wind chills are topping around -35 F!!! It’s suppsed to get down to -22 tonight. As my friend says we live in “Nebrask-alaska”!
I honestly didn’t think you got snow down your way Jonco.
I was associating Missouri with heat, cotton and blues, but I think I was confusing it with the Mississippipppissippiissippissippi delta or something.
Oops.
I’m about 4 or 5 hours southwest of Jonco where it can be 100+ in the summer. We still have about 6″ of snow from our Christmas Eve Blizzard and a few snowfalls since. Here’s our local forecast. Brrrr.
Tonight: Considerable cloudiness. Very cold. Wind chills approaching -15F. Low 1F. Winds NW at 10 to 20 mph.
Tomorrow: Considerable cloudiness. Very cold. Wind chills approaching -15F. High 8F. Winds NW at 10 to 20 mph.
Tomorrow night: Bitterly cold. Partly cloudy. Low -3F. Winds N at 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday: Partly cloudy. Very cold. High 13F. Winds N at 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday: Mix of sun and clouds. Highs in the low teens and lows 0 to -4F.
We get winter here, complete with ice, snow, and damn cold temperatures. Biggest snow I can recall was Jan 30-Feb 1 of 1982. We got 22 inches. Coldest I remember was -15F. That was before they used wind chill temps which would have made it seem worse.
Our snow is a light blowing snow, so rather than get the shovel out I got my leaf blower out and blew much of it away. Occasionally I’d get in the wrong direction and a gust of wind would blow what I had stirred up right in my face. Now that’s COLD.
Of course through the day it’s been blowing back over the sidewalk and driveway. But the blower sure beats shoveling.
We just missed the snow here in central Arkansas… did get the cold and the wind and just a little bit of ice here and there.
I’m in Jacksonville Florida, and the Weather forecast for this weekend includes a 15% chance of SNOW FLURRIES. In FLORIDA. It hasn’t snowed here since ’91 I wonder what Gore is thinking? He needs to step it up with that GW crap.
Maoman – Maybe Gore was right! Maybe it worked! Maybe we fixed global warming already!! YAAAAY! Can we stop fixing it now?
I’m gonna start burning tires in my backyard again.
We’ve had -30C here the last few nights but suppose to be going up to +10 by Monday now. That will feel like spring for us. Looks like the south is getting hit hard with the cold weather. Bundle up.
I like how you spell Mississippi Maffu. Cold got you?
No wonder Gus was not crazy about the snow. If your “boys” were that close to the snow, you’d be all for going inside too.
South Florida is experiencing the coldest 5 day period since the winter of 1989. I had frost on my windshield this morning when I went to work.
Fact:
Average temperatures have climbed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degree Celsius) around the world since 1880, much of this in recent decades, according to NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Fact:
The rate of warming is increasing. The 20th century’s last two decades were the hottest in 400 years and possibly the warmest for several millennia, according to a number of climate studies.
Fact:
The Arctic is feeling the effects the most. Average temperatures in Alaska, western Canada, and eastern Russia have risen at twice the global average, according to the multinational Arctic Climate Impact Assessment report compiled between 2000 and 2004.
Fact:
Arctic ice is rapidly disappearing, and the region may have its first completely ice-free summer by 2040 or earlier. Polar bears and indigenous cultures are already suffering from the sea-ice loss.
Fact:
Glaciers and mountain snows are rapidly melting—for example, Montana’s Glacier National Park now has only 27 glaciers, versus 150 in 1910.
Fact:
Industrialization, deforestation, and pollution have greatly increased atmospheric concentrations of water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, all greenhouse gases that help trap heat near Earth’s surface.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1206_041206_global_warming_2.html
Just sayin’, y’all
Not to spark the fire, but Paul – what was the temperature change from 1780-1880? 1680-1780?
I feel like it’s unfair to make a major case for climate change unless I have more than 100 years worth of data to plot.
Not saying it’s untrue, just would like a larger data pool.
Also, living in the land of Priuses, I’m not sure dealing with the smug is worth the benefits of reduced smog
I don’t think the ice caps are disappearing – they just got bored and decided to move.
To somewhere around Birmingham, England by the feel of things.
Its cold in S.Il too , Jonco. Was no school today and already called it off for Friday. I was woken up with a face full of snow this morning. That kid is lucky he can run so damn fast.
hay Paul someone forgot to tell Al Gore that the polar bears come on shore for the summer because the ice always melts in the arctic every summer that’s how we transferred ships to England from the west coast to avoid u boats in the gulf during ww2. they also sailed ships through there for the past couple of hundred years before the canal was built. I’m amazed how many people see a pix of some stupid bear playing on a small iceberg and think he is in trouble when he is just waiting for some tree hugger in a zodiac to come close enough so he can have a snack.
what wimpy school district closes school for a few inches of snow. kids have it to soft these days. in my day we walked 1 mile through 3 ft. of snow just to wait for the bus that was stuck in the ditch. oh forgot the up hill both ways although that part was true my house was on one hill and the bus stop was on another.
Jonco, any change to get those degrees/lenghts/weight etc in metric numbers too…I hate to you converter every time. And you have maaaaany visitors from around the world…:)
I mean USE….not you 😀
hey DJ I can bring some tires up there and we can have a big campfire,we got snow today not a whole lot but its nice I might send in a few pics
Paul–That National Geographic article……a couple of years old…was written before the fraudulent “drowning polar bear” photo was discredited; before the exposure of the fraud perpetrated by the climate scientists who threw out tree ring data, who threw out data from across Russia and elsewhere that went against their agenda; before we learned about the climate data sensors placed in concrete parking lots, near air conditioning units, and on hot rooftops (norcalblogs.com/watts/weather_stations/); before NASA data quietly revised their data after they admitted to a bug in the algorithm used to adjust raw information; before the emails where climate scientists discussed how to skew the data: “The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.” http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/ . And you live on the coast…how’s that catastrophic sea level rise going?
During the recent Copenhagen climate orgy, almost every attendee came on private planes. Even the vile Nancy Pelosi, who took a party of over 20 people, needed two planes. 1,200 limos were brought to the city, driven in from all over N Europe. It’s been estimated that the 15,000 delegates, 5,000 press personnel, and 98 world leaders generated as much CO2 at this conference as would be created by a city with a population of 143,000. Once again we see the hypocrisy of the world’s liberals, all the while ignoring the news of the exposure of one of the greatest frauds in modern history.
For me, the argument is dirty air vs. clean air, not global warming. The earth has been heating and cooling since it’s beginning, in conjunction with sunspot activity. Now if folks would stick to solving pollution woes, which would probably affect some infitesimal change in temperature, then I say go for it.
DJ – Have you ever seen the pics of the temperature sensors that were located in the middle of asphalt parking lots? Another popular spot is between runways at airports. No, all that heat generated by the jets isn’t affecting the sensor. The U.S. seems to love putting those things in naturally hot locations. I wonder why?
Richard – Here’s some of the pics: http://www.norcalblogs.com/watts/weather_stations
I love that dog, LOL, my little dog LOVES the snow, she puts her face right in.
It’s been bad over here in the UK too ‘heaviest snowfall in 50 years’:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/6947586/Snow-covers-Britain-from-head-to-toe.html
May not be as bad as North America, but we still have to deal with it the same way.
But some fun comes from it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/7821847.stm
DJ – Very informative. I’m no rocket scientist but I was bloody amazed to see where they had put the sensors.