snow

[macguzzi]

please stop snowing it's been relentless

[John in Leeds]

Got mine ordered

 

 

 

DVH reckons I can put my wheels back on when the snow clears

[Guest ratchethack]

please stop snowing it's been relentless

Hey, it’s been BRUTALLY COLD all across the northern hemisphere SINCE BEFORE WINTER STARTED this year:

 

 

Records Fall as Snow Blankets East Coast

Central Park, New York, Dec. 20, 2009

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/us/21sno...rss&emc=rss

 

New York, Dec. 20, 2009 (New York Times)

 

VIDEO: London’s Gatwick airport cancels early flights due to snowfall on the runways and parts of Paris are covered with a blanket of snow (Reuters News Video)

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8424913.stm

 

BBC VIDEO: Commuters stranded in cars and at airports after snow (London, Manchester, Aberdeen, etc.)

 

http://www.zimbio.com/watch/W4pMy1dS_tE/Sn...ters+News+Video

 

Thousands of Chunnel passengers stranded for third day by Dec. 21 due to unseasonal early snow

 

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/eurostar-chan...tory?id=9390609

 

VIDEO: The famous Kobenhavn Harbor Mermaid gets a blanket of snow over her bare bronze titties for the first time in recorded history (and it sticks!) -- and winter not officially yet begun -- while nearby, Global Warming Conference in process.

 

http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=15226050

 

Kobenhavn, Denmark, Dec. 17, 2009 (Reuters VIDEO)

 

Guess wot was happening in Kobenhavn on Dec. 7 - 18, 2009,

-- other than an unseasonal pre-winter blizzard, that is?

 

(You just can’t make this stuff up. . .)

 

That’s right – the latest Global Warming Beggar’s Klusterfest -- 16,500 attendees, heavily bundled up against the unseasonally bitter, pre-winter cold, with hands out, palms up, empty heads thrown back, mouths wide open, whining, "STOP GLOBAL WARMING, NOW! "

 

 

Most memorable moment at the Dec. 7 - 18 Kobenhavn Global Warming Beggar’s Klusterfest: 1000 Global Warming protesters overjoyed to be arrested for all manner of illegal public behavior, and mercifully taken in out of the sub-freezing weather.

 

This Global Warming silliness can be BRUTALLY COLD. . . but you just can’t beat it for sheer hilarity.

 

 

. . .And the fools still line up for ever more performances by the Jim Jones of the Environmental Movement, Witch Doctor to the Worlds Most Gullible -- none other than the Maestro of Eco-Extortion Carbon Trading Fraud hisself. . . But waddayagonna do?

[stormsedge]

High 31F today...doing an oil change, then a bit of a ride to charge battery anyway. Brisk...it only made it to 29!!! Time to go on the battery tender. k

[macguzzi]

temperature breaking twenty year old records set to freeze scotland for the next two weeks. Bah humbug

[Guest ratchethack]

Unlike the Anthro-Glo-Warmie-Coolie-Foolies of the rest of the G-20, the Chinese are not known for intergovernmental idiocy.

 

China was roundly excoriated for refusing to sign on to carbon caps during the record-shattering pre-winter blizzard that struck the Kobenhavn Global Warming Klusterfarge last month.

 

Good for China. It would seem that rank stupidity doesn't fit the objectives of Chairman Mao's Long March, (still alive and well). . .

 

 

Trains stopped in their tracks

By Xin Dingding and Wang Qian (China Daily)

2010-01-05

 

Falling mercury causes power shortages; cold spell to continue

 

The heaviest snowfall to hit northern China in nearly six decades continued to snarl traffic yesterday, stranding thousands of passengers on railways and at airports.

 

The unusually harsh winter weather also caused coal shortages, forcing some provinces to cut power supplies.

 

Though snow stopped in most parts in the north by yesterday morning, heavy snowfall and biting cold continued in parts of Inner Mongolia, Hebei and Shandong.

 

The heavy snow led to the delay of 13 passenger trains in Inner Mongolia, and forced the closure of all four airports in Shandong, as well as 30 state highways in northern China.

 

Beijing Capital International Airport, with more than 1,400 flights scheduled to take off yesterday, reported severe disruptions. By 4 pm, 485 flights took off, 690 flights were delayed for an average of 90 minutes, and 98 flights were canceled, an airport spokesman said.

. . .

"Though snow stopped yesterday, the temperature was -28 C, freezing the doors," he said.

 

Armed police managed to pry open one door, and with the help of the local railway bureau, evacuated the 1,400 passengers to a nearby railway station yesterday.

 

Nearly 2,000 people, including armed police, railway workers and farmers, worked to remove snow from the rail track with shovels, he sad.

 

SOURCE LINK: China Daily http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-01...ent_9263331.htm

[antonio carroccio]

temperature breaking twenty year old records set to freeze scotland for the next two weeks. Bah humbug

Does Scotland ever goes out the snow?

A couple of years ago we were talking about the last signalment of the Yeti and guess what, it was in Scotland.

[John in Leeds]

Well just look on the bright side, this whole month of chills will stop all those glaciers receding and the polar ice caps melting (maybe).

[John in Leeds]

Another bit of escapism for those who like snow

 

Snow tractor

[Guest ratchethack]

Egads!

 

Looks like The Heartland will be shovelling out from under lots o' Heavy Global Warming for the forseeable. . .

 

Just got off the phone with someone in Michigan, located under the top arrowhead in the weather chart below. It's been snowing for 7 days straight there, drifts up to 5 feet everywhere, and The Big One has yet to hit. . .

 

 

Winter of 2009-2010 Could Be Worst in 25 Years

By Jon Auciello, AccuWeather.com 2010-01-04

 

Nearly the entire eastern half of the United States is enduring bitterly cold temperatures not experienced since 1985. Even Florida, which has been hovering around freezing levels overnight recently, is also feeling the almost-nationwide chill.

 

The last time a large swath of severely low temperatures struck the nation was in January 1985. That historic arctic outbreak had below-zero temperatures Fahrenheit stretching from Chicago eastward to New York City, and all the way south to Macon, Ga.

 

SOURCE LINK: http://www.accuweather.com/news-weather-fe...s.asp?#extremes

[Dan M]

Winter of 2009-2010 Could Be Worst in 25 Years

By Jon Auciello, AccuWeather.com 2010-01-04

 

Nearly the entire eastern half of the United States is enduring bitterly cold temperatures not experienced since 1985. Even Florida, which has been hovering around freezing levels overnight recently, is also feeling the almost-nationwide chill.

 

The last time a large swath of severely low temperatures struck the nation was in January 1985. That historic arctic outbreak had below-zero temperatures Fahrenheit stretching from Chicago eastward to New York City, and all the way south to Macon, Ga.

 

 

Bring it!

 

I remember '85. It was the last time I recall seeing Lake Michigan frozen as far as you could see.

[Guest ratchethack]

YIKES!

 

In an OUTRAGEOUS display of one-upmanship, the UK resoundingly TROUNCES the USA by 2-to-1! (see above)

 

Britain's deep freeze:

icy weather brings worst snow for 50 years

 

The Met Office issued an emergency weather warning for the entire country as parts of Britain prepared for some of the heaviest snowfall in almost 50 years.

 

Telegraph.co.uk By Martin Evans

Published: 6:00AM GMT 06 Jan 2010

 

 

Temperatures dropping to as low as -14C (7F) in some areas - the worst since 1995 - caused waterways like the Bridgewater canal in Sale, Cheshire to freeze over. Photo: PAUL COUSANS

 

The South, including London and the Home Counties, was expected to bear the brunt of the snowfall overnight and early on Tuesday, with emergency services saying that they were already struggling to cope with the increasingly bitter conditions.

 

On Tuesday, up to eight inches of snow fell in some parts of the country.

 

Scores of rail services and flights were cancelled as temperatures struggled to get above freezing. On Monday night, temperatures dropped to as low as -14C (7F) in some areas — the worst since 1995.

 

More than 1,000 schools were closed in Scotland, the north of England and Wales.

 

Forecasters predicted that more than a foot of snow could fall in less than 24 hours in most southern areas, leading to widespread disruption for millions.

 

The residents of Hampshire and Wiltshire were expected to be the worst hit, with as much as 16 inches likely to be dumped by the end of Tuesday.

 

Commuters in London, which ground to a halt last February after heavy snowfalls, were warned to expect a covering of several inches by the morning rush hour.

 

Drivers were advised to only make essential trips, as councils gave warning that they could run out of grit.

 

Business groups estimate that the absenteeism from the snow could cost up to £2billion with the Federation of Small Businesses estimating that about 10 per cent of the workforce unable to get to work on Tuesday.

 

The Met Office said the forecast snow could be the biggest single fall since the notorious winter of 1962-63.

 

A Met Office spokesman said it had issued a so-called “flash warning” because of the substantial quantity of snow that was expected to fall in a short period of time.

 

“This kind of warning is very rare. It’s the level of alert we put out for the floods in the summer of 2007," the spokesman said.

 

Forecasters said that there would be little respite over the next week as freezing temperatures continue to grip Britain.

 

The Met Office said the country was experiencing the longest cold snap since 1981.

 

A change in wind direction has caused the prolonged freezing spell, it said.

 

Britain’s prevailing winds usually bring weather from the west, but for the past few weeks the wind has blown from the north and east, bringing Arctic weather.

 

Emergency services were told to “prepare for the worst”.

 

In some hard-hit areas, the services admitted that they were losing the battle against the weather.

 

The police in Manchester asked the public to dial 999 only if there was a life-threatening emergency or a crime was taking place, while the North West Ambulance Service said it would dispatch crews to life-threatening cases only.

 

Gordon Brown said the Government was doing everything possible to keep the country moving.

 

“The weather is taking a turn for the worse," the Prime Minister said.

 

"We are doing everything possible to keep disruption to a minimum. The Highways Agency has kept the vast majority of major road networks running.”

 

All flights at Gatwick, Luton, Birmingham and Southampton airports were cancelled last night as workers rushed to clear snow from runways.

 

Other airports including Manchester Airport and the John Lennon Airport in Liverpool closed temporarily. Heathrow was operating normally although many of the roads around it were blocked.

 

There were also fears that gas supplies could begin to run low if the icy conditions continued.

 

Figures obtained by the Conservatives suggested that, under the current levels of usage, supplies would only last for another week.

 

A six-year-old boy was rushed to hospital after plunging through the ice on a lake and becoming stuck under the surface for half an hour.

 

The child, from Crookham Common, Berks, was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

 

SOURCE LINK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/...r-50-years.html

[DeBenGuzzi]

I just want to ride my guzz,

[antonio carroccio]

How bad is it in Minnesota?

In Holland is not snowing that much, the problem is freezing.

It's freezing at day light too. It's now about three weeks long.

 

A lot of ice-skate fanatics here.

[Admin Jaap]

How bad is it in Minnesota?

In Holland is not snowing that much, the problem is freezing.

It's freezing at day light too. It's now about three weeks long.

 

A lot of ice-skate fanatics here.

Just for the record, I'm not one of them!