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585,000 Without Power As "Catastrophic" Winter Storm Pax Pounds Northeast
Winter Storm 'Pax' has already crippled much of the South, snarling traffic and dumping more snow than most can remember on places that are unarguably ill-prepared to cope. But, as The Weather Channel warns, up to 18 more inches of snow is forecast for the Northeast as Pax pushes up the East Coast. With no thaw expected in the South until at least the weekend (and freezing winds causing havoc), forecasters expect more power outages. Trouble has already started though further North with DC over 13 inches of snow and NYC having over 7 inches this morning alone. It's not everyday that snow is falling in Atlanta and Boston at the same time! 585,000 households are without power in 7 states this morning. Flight cancellations have begun from DC to NYC building on the 4,000 that were cancelled yesterday.
Snowing from Atlanta to Boston
Near Blizzard conditions in Manhattan/NYC:
Chaos on the roads...
Total Freeway gridlock...
And now it is heading North... with up to 18 inches of snow forecast for the NorthEast
In the last few hours, NYC alone has received 7 inches of snow and over 13 inches of snow in DC...
Though further west is getting more...
New York City's Central Park has record 5 inches of snow in the last 2 hours...
As a reminder, here is how Weather.com described Pax yesterday:
"Sometimes we want to tell them, 'Hey, listen, this warning is different. This is really extremely dangerous, and it doesn't happen very often,'" Jacks said.
The service's memo early Wednesday called the storm "an event of historical proportions."
It continues: "Catastrophic ... crippling ... paralyzing ... choose your adjective."
And power outages in the south are likely to surge...
Heads up.. winds will be picking up next few hrs before the ice melts...potential surge in pwr outages http://t.co/nptlDkbDAY #gawx
— NWS Atlanta (@NWSAtlanta) February 13, 2014
We suspect the image of weathermen with hands on their faces will be more prevalent today...
As this is coming...
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I made no such assumption about your position on AGW, I merely outlined that the error you made was of the type that the denialati do deliberately to mislead the gullible (and those that crave confirmation bias) that is all...
Read again what I said very closely...
What’s more, it’s hitting the most populous area in the nation, so it’s likely actually lower. Something else to talk about besides Bieber and justified homicide.
;0
mine too actually...but it doesn’t require hours upon hours of the same monotonous rhetoric
But justified homicide is one of my favorite topics of conversation.
Perhaps you could pick another metaphor?
There ya go ruining the fun exaggerations to be used for mo money with facts again.
Autism is fun....
We've had it backwards all along.
Every time jobless claims go up we get bad weather.
Yellen et al are loving it...further excuses
I think there's six inches of snow in Charlotte but it'll gone in 48 hours and no big deal. Especially since snow will all be a thing of the past because of AGW.
But the packed down ice will stay on the roads for two weeks because what is a plow?
Just like the increased number and severity of the hurricanes we've been experiencing these past two years? This AGW story is a good one. With some many plot twists, you just never know where the story will lead.
Don't you just love geo-engineering??
:P
Provide proof, please.
Anytime there is a storm it is Chemtrails and geo engineering. Or so the common meme goes.
To go deeper I used to follow this way of thinking. Seeing lasting contrails up above didn't help. But if 15k people see these daily, I thought about how many jets and gas would be required to make these, if they are on purpose.
They sure might be doing it, but it ain't what 99% of people are seeing, myself included.
Just not enough resources to blanket the country with these on purpose. My guess is that more efficient jets make for a lower fuel to air ratio and more persistent contrails. Or a combination of jet engine design, altitude and and weather conditions at altitude.
pods
Above 30.000 ft any particle will collect ambient water vapor. Jet fuel when burned spews out a host of partcles, all of which gather water. At that height the wind patterns tend to move in one direction. Thus you may see expanded contrails for hours after jet has passed.
No worries. Kronheim told the 'poor people' to work harder ... so they should clean up that mess faster this time.
I never regretted leaving the south. The stupidity isn't limited to when it snows but even when it rains hard! Also, say what you want about cold weather, but the heat and humidity are just as brutalizing and for me, far worse. I grew up in the Northeast and actually like the cold and the snow, just not Northeast politics. It had to be the Virginians that really started the Revolution, the loyalist pricks in the Northeast only went along for the ride!
Curse you Al Gore! Now my Hudson Bay property is less than worthless. lol.
I'm with you brother. My beach front property in Bali is still 2 miles from the ocean.
Banks & government own that snow, why not channel the melt through there front doors.
Relax.
It is under control.
http://www.thewarningsecondcoming.com/messages/all-messages/
Is there any way to stop that Beatles chatter? I heard enough of it on A day in the life
In related news, ManBearPig was sighted in Georgia this morning.
In the past I would have written some sacastic line about ZH not being a weather channel.
But in the new normal, when the vaugeries of weather(winter snow, summer rain, record heat/cold) seem to be the driving force, or lack thereof, of the industrial might of the most powerful nation on earth.
I say, thanks tylers! We now know what the production, sales, unemployment figures, ect... will be in advance.
Weather, Really? Stops the engine of national production?
A nation of wusses, all to ready to be convinced with cheap propaganda that they are not well and truly f-cked.
Tylers! Can you please stop embedding auto-start links because not one of these useless fuckers knows how to set and retain volume levels in their video players(especially TWC)! Turning on/off auto-play constantly is a pain and the links restart each and every time you refresh...
Their's nothing like watching porn at full volume and hitting a link only to have some effeminate Weather-douche blast you out of your chair with Breaking News...
Krisp: Yeah, that autoplay just about blew my cock off using my regular browser and I use all sorts of addons that usually nip this in the bud. It's like being Marty McFly as he hits the guitar note on the giant amplifier. Luckily it doesn't start when I use Tor.
Hey, don't worry, FEMA has your back.
They've got Mraps, Drones, guns and a shit load of rounds.
Just the things that citizens need in a case like this.
The emporer has no clothes.
Has anybody put a Geiger counter on this snow? Looking at the past track the moisture came in off the Gulf of Alaska (after passing over Fukushima?), dipped south in the midwest, made a turn north over Georgia and is now blessing the Northeast. Might be interesting to listen for clicks. Or not.
You can see a current map of radiation counters here:
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
Nothing much going on.
Remember that if anything was picked up at Fukushima, it has been diluted by thousands of cubic miles of atmosphere during it's journey.
Ditto for the ocean.
Everytime is snows or there is rain, radiation goes up, take look: http://www.aspnic.com/files/now.jpg
Interesting observation. Do you have any long term data overlayed with the snow/rain to prove that?
BTW, did you know that your station is reporting levels which are higher than those shown for the Fukushima/Tokyo area?
Not that those levels are any more than normal background counts...
See http://japan.failedrobot.com/
I don't have the data with me here but I'm running this for well over a five years now and when we have nice calm weather background radiation hovers around 0.12-0.16 uSv/hr. If you are saying that this unit is malfunctioning, you are wrong as I also have hand held device as a backup and most of the time both of them reading the same levels.
No, did not say or mean to imply that your detector is malfunctioning.
You made an interesting comment and I was looking for somehing more than anecdotal data...
sunny and 63 in Galveston. breaking out the SPF 30 as we spak
Do you know what they call this weather in New England??????
WINTER
//In 9 short months, there will be plenty of blizzard babies to make up any energy lost in in the economy during this stormy weather, so it is not all bad news!
the USA is being punished for their push to have Israel give up more land and essentially cut their own throat. Israel will also see some major negative event sometime in the next 2 years. the blood moons are coming.
http://www.pray4zion.org/TheComingBloodMoons.html
It's 60 degrees here in South Texas. I feel for ya'll.
Tell us more Al Roker, please!
Is ZH that starved for attention that you need to report THE WEATHER?
Tyler, what's happening in my neck of the woods???
Catastrophic? WTF? Seriously are people really that stupid? IF you can't drive don't drive its that simple, can't walk on few inches of snow? Don't go outside. Can't get to work, don't go.
This is just a hysteria of folks who have no idea how to live this life. What did they expect, 75 degrees 365 days a week?
Yea go ahead close all the schools, you should probably have a marshal law on top of that, why not it will be for you Own good.
What we really need is to have one of the bigger transport ship to land in the Time Square and tell the local, what really is happening on this planet.
And that would be the nail in the coffin for most of the joe six pack and the Teachers Pet Project.
contry has gone soft. get some sub-zero weather and half the office doesn't show up because its too cold. waaaa, waaaaa, waaaaaa
I work with people who honestly believe 60 degrees is cold. WTF?
Yesterday was in the mid 30's, and finished off at midnight at 32. I wore a sleeveless sport shirt all day, and even though the building we work in is very badly insulated (20 degrees above ambient), wore no jacket all day. everyone else huddling around the heaters, shivering, saying "So cold, very very cold, brrrrr". LOL I actually feel sorry for them, they're suffering so badly.
Oh yeah, every last one of them head down buried in their fucking cell phones.
What's the world coming to?
Is Mother Nature on the no-fly list yet? This is clearly terrorist-inspired, bottom-line and bonus attenuating belligerency.
No-fly country is gonna have some nice weather the next ten days or so. Ready to get outside and party til you drop? ;-)
Pauly Krugman will be very happy. The destruction of the storm will create MOAR jobs! You know the broken windows effect!
aw, tis a shame. funny how it's BIG new when its out east, not so much otherwise.
Yeah... it snows in the wintertime.
BTW, gold about to hit $1300 :o)
Piers Corbyn at weatheraction.com (horrible web site but excellent data) nailed this forecast about a month ago.
Yes, an astrophysicist who is way ahead of any other weather forecaster/agency. He claims an 84% accuracy rate.
If I had a weather dependent business, would definitely subscribe to his service.
Could you provide some credible evidence to back that claim up?
http://www.weatheraction.com/pages/data/WAaudit.pdf
Sorry, that don;t cut it in my book...
You clearly have a much lower threshold than any reasonable scientist would deem acceptable...
If you read closely, the predictions are along the lines of "During the Typhoon season, a typhoon will hit where 50% of typhoons have historically hit".....
And it seems that I am not the only one that thinks he is a bit of a crank...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Corbyn
Anyone who critiques the AGW religion is suspect!
Actually he believes that C02 is not a GHG....
That is what makes him a crank...
I mean, like fuck, that was demonstrated in 1859....
Not to mention his claims of a New Ice Age are completely discredited by the data...
Having a look at the NYC traffic cameras.....I'm not seeing anything catastrophic: http://nyctmc.org/
meh, I've seen more snow. No ice storm is the good thing.
Americans, what are you moaning about? A little bit more snow than usual you call a Snowmargeddon. It is the usual thing in Russia and somehow we are ok. The most developed country in the world can't cope with this? Are you kidding?
Snow in Siberia, the Russians know how to handle. Snow in the southern republics, not so much.
when rothschild talks of weather you better think of james bond bad guy.
if weather weapons do not exist why a un 1976 weather weapon treaty.
CONVENTION ON THE PROHIBITION OF MILITARY OR ANY OTHER HOSTILE USE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MODIFICATION TECHNIQUES
Adopted by Resolution 31/72 of the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1976.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/3436120/UN-1976-Weather-Weapon-Treaty
rich old man on the news talkin weather how benign.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afrb7uSKWGQ
What a bunch of whiny PajamaBoys! It's winter, it's cold, it's snowing, so what? If you don't understand how to drive in the snow and ice, then don't!
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Define Irony: A storm named Pax (Peace) kicking the crap out of the US.
That is all.