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Prepare For Q3 GDP Collapse - Here Comes Polar Vortex 2.0

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We now know the devastation that the Polar Vortex 1.0 caused on a fragile US economy in Q1 - because, it must be the weather, right? and not stagnating wages and over-leveraged consumers. So, it is woth great concern that we report, Accuweather states that Polar Vortex 2.0 will trurn early in the Northeast, "The vortex could slip at times, maybe even briefly in September for the Northeast," crushing the hopes of v-shaped recoveries in US GDP (or will it be different this time?)

Via Accuweather,

Polar Vortex to Return Early in the Northeast

While the fall will kick off with days of sunshine and temperatures above normal in some of the region's largest cities, including New York City and Philadelphia, the polar vortex may make its return for short, sporadic periods in September.

 

"The vortex could slip at times, maybe even briefly in September for the Northeast," AccuWeather Lead Long-Range Forecaster Paul Pastelok said. "There could be a significant shot of chilly air that comes across the Great Lakes region and into the interior Northeast sometime in mid- to late-September."

As conditions in northern Canada begin to set up similar to last fall, getting colder and unsettled quickly, it is likely that this pattern could become a source for colder air to make its way down at times into the United States, inducing a drop in temperatures for the interior Northeast during mid-fall.

"Temperatures will not be as extreme in November when compared to last year, but October could be an extreme month," Pastelok said.

...

Following a soaking November for Northeastern residents, El Niño will make its debut early this winter, fueling early winter snow across the area.

"December could get kind of wild due to the very active southern jet stream that is going to provide the moisture for bigger snowstorms," Pastelok said. "The Northeast could have a couple of big storms in December and early January."

 

Winterlike Cold, Snow to Blast Plains to Rockies

Unlike the Northeast, the trend for the northern Plains and northeastern Rockies will sway more winterlike, as early snow and cold air blast the area this fall.

"October could be a month of snow and cold weather across the northern Plains and in parts of the northeast Rockies," Pastelok said.

 

Snow falls over Sioux Falls, S.D., on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013. (Photo/kristielou1515)

While it's not uncommon for this area of the country to receive snowfall in the fall, areas from Bismarck, North Dakota, to Miles City, Montana, will be more vulnerable this fall to an increased number of snowstorms.

Aside from the snow, temperatures are expected to be near or below normal for most of the region with some parts of the southern Rockies experiencing temperatures 2 to 4 F below normal.

"Some areas of the southern Rockies will start out in a hole 2 to 4 degrees below normal and never recover from that," Pastelok said. "The northern Rockies and the Plains will get colder as the season goes on."

As the cold grips areas from the Colorado Rockies to the Sierra, the cold may even expand southward into the central Plains and portions of the Midwest, including Chicago and Milwaukee and Green Bay, Wisconsin.

 

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Bye bye 3.1% GDP growth in Q3 and Q4...

 

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Mon, 08/11/2014 - 21:20 | 5079966 Jumbotron
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Now that's news you can front run on .  Even Santa is coming early.  Start putting up your tree early.  The neighbors will think your nuts......but when you have all the stash....and they have nothing for Christmas....who'll be laughing then, huh ?

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 21:23 | 5079977 Jumbotron
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On a more serious note......cold periods in history have been marked by famines more often than not.  See which foods will take a hit if things are too cool for the late summer and fall. 

Not to mention cattle don't like freezing to death.....and neither do beef prices.

Just sayin'

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 21:34 | 5080033 SHEEPFUKKER
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Polar vortex + El Nino or......ice, ice, baby

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 21:39 | 5080057 TeamDepends
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An early winter, killing a bunch of crops which "should have had" a few more weeks of sun, will be pretty much all she wrote.  But you are prepared, right?

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 21:58 | 5080150 IndianaJohn
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Corn and soybeans are both very susceptible to frost.

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 22:12 | 5080211 Rusty Shorts
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LOL

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 22:32 | 5080276 Publicus
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I blame Global Warming!

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 00:02 | 5080524 El Oregonian
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Or is that Global cooling? Or Solar Flaring? .... Maybe atmosphere collapse?..... Sea currents re-alignment?...

Or, maybe just a bit of Bovine exrement by our gubbermint seers covering up the obvious...

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 00:09 | 5080535 SafelyGraze
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2014 has been a super-great year for trying new techniques for vortex shedding 

if you have ideas for future projects, send them to us at 

haarp, weather experimentation directorate

hugs,
nicola tesla

 

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 04:23 | 5080586 wee-weed up
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Oh no! Not another cold-weather Polar Vortex...

This is truely the last straw... Devastating!

Algore will never be able to get another AWG hard-on...

In front of the person giving him a massage ever again!

He'll be left just another disgusting little limp dick!

With a HUGE carbon footprint!

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 07:10 | 5080977 max2205
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ZH or not

 

If I have to click close on one more fucking mobile ad, I will throw my smartphone down the disposal

 

Fucking internet is ruined

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 07:55 | 5081065 Uncle Remus
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.

I will throw my smartphone down the disposal

The life you save may be your own.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 11:21 | 5081927 Raymond K Hessel
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H O L Y   S H I T   !!!

 

 

IT'S GOING TO GET COLD IN THE WINTER!!!

 

AHHHHH!!!!  HELP US!!!!!

 

I sure hope it doesn't get dry and hot in the summer next year.  

Oh dear Lord!!  Cold in the winter and then hot in the summer!!!  

That's the End of Days!!!

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:25 | 5081125 atthelake
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Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:52 | 5081444 dizzyfingers
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max2205  adblock

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:20 | 5081583 PTR
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Ghostery

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 00:32 | 5080592 Da Yooper
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Or, maybe just a bit of Bovine exrement by our gubbermint seers covering up the obvious...

 

Barry & the wookie doing to much flying on her broom is bringing on global cooling

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 13:19 | 5082516 Overflow-admin
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Blame the physicists!!!

 

REVERSE ENTROPY, BITCHES!

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 23:29 | 5080457 db51
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USDA Comic Book is calling for massive supplies of both corn and soybeans.   Corn and soybeans in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Northern Iowa and Illinois are barely to roasting ear stage in corn and bloom stages in soybeans.   What could possibly go wrong?   Traders have corn, soybean an wheat prices pounded to 5 year lows.   Nothing to see here...move along.

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 21:59 | 5080157 Jumbotron
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And Wall Street collectively says...."Who could have predicted"

Wait.....scratch that.

And CNBC said......"Who could have predicted"

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 22:49 | 5080360 NidStyles
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Wall Street never has to say anything, that's what they pay the talking heads for. 

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 21:41 | 5080067 Cattender
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Last Winter Damn near killed me...

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 21:24 | 5079980 mtndds
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if that vortex is up in the artic circle how come it never comes down to california?  The cold seems to always hit the east coast.  Is the guberment manipulating the weather too?

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 21:27 | 5079998 Notsobadwlad
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Maybe it has something to do with the pole shift.

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 21:46 | 5080050 Rainman
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Ha...maybe it has something to do with liberal bullshit !!

 Crap and tax, baby !

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 00:14 | 5080546 dirty belly
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I was going to say, yes, but there was S.517 the Weather Modification Research and Development Policy Authorization Act of 2005.

I was once a resident of Idaho and queried ol' Larry E. Craig (before his 'incident' at the MPLS men room) and he did reply and here is what Larry E. Craig said:

Larry E. Craig

Idaho

Hart Senate Office Building

(202) 224-2762

http://craig.senate.gov

March 31, 2006

Dear ***e,

Thank you for contacting me regarding weather modification.  I appreciated hearing from you and apologize for the delay in my response.

Specifically you mentioned S.517, the Weather Modification Research and Development Policy Authorization Act of 2005.  this legislation was introduced to the Senate on March 3, 2005, and it currently awaiting debate on the Senate floor.  It aims to establish a Weather Modification Operations and Research Board in order to develop a national research program on Weather Modification.

I believe it is important to pursue new developments in science.  Particularly in the area of basic science and in the physical sciences, there is an inherent need for research and development.  Research provides the "seed corn" of our technological advancement, because it provides those breakthroughs that will lead to the enabling technologies of tomorrow.  Without continued research and development, I do not believe the United States can maintain its position as a leader in innovation and, consequently, in the world economy.  However, rest assured that I will keep your comments in mind should this legislation before the full Senate for debate.

Again, thank you for contacting me.  If there is anything further I can do for you, please let me know.

Sincerely,

Larry E. Craig

United States Senator

LLC\mih 

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:39 | 5081695 ATM
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Interesting that he never mentions that part of the Constitution that gives the US government the authority to fund research and development, weather modification or any of the other bullshit that they spend trillions on each year.

Cocksucker.....

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 07:28 | 5081016 underbussen
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cause theres a massive high pressure system over the nth east pacific thats been there for about three years, its pinned as the main cause of the drought, this pushes the cold air further over, and the Rockies of course, they may have something to do with it, not entirely sure, but from what I read its the high pressure system that forces the cold air to miss most of western US.

fyi I think it would be pretty unlikely that the US gets another cold blast like last winter, that was a rare weather event indeed, but who the fuck knows, the weather is weird.

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 21:23 | 5079981 ebworthen
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Oh no!  Weather!

We have never had to deal with WEATHER before!

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 21:49 | 5080102 Moon Pie
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This is how Jimi Hendrix dealt with weather.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVqJl-FOYIA

Didn't stop him from jammin.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 01:51 | 5080691 Kirk2NCC1701
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I only worry about the DC/NY bipolar vortex.

One blows, the other one sucks.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 07:17 | 5080988 RaceToTheBottom
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Instead of Polar Vortex, I think they meant Polar Gortex...

Bullish!!!

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 21:25 | 5079982 Realname
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Cue Flakmeister for his bullshit global alarmism. Co2 is bad...it makes plants grow (better than Brawndo).

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 21:25 | 5079985 NoWayJose
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Blame Obama for the vortex - he restarted the "Cold War"

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 21:25 | 5079992 Notsobadwlad
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Goldman LIED???? I m shocked, shocked to find that such a fine group of (insert your favorite Goldman slur) would knowingly lie about future GDP.

... obviously they are not THAT stupid.

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 21:28 | 5080010 ClassicCommodity
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Plenty of people in developing countries still taking USD's so what's the deal? They can just patch up the holes with more paper.

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 21:38 | 5080052 himaroid
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Good, kill these damn bugs. I've been bitten and stung by every damn thing there is this summer. Five times each.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:41 | 5081706 Oliver Klozoff
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Actually the bugs around here seem to have benifitted from the cold winter.

 

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 21:48 | 5080094 justsayin2u
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But this is weather and not climate so gobal worming is still incontrovertible and deniers are still bad people right????

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 21:48 | 5080096 Rusty Shorts
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Riverdale-on-the-Hudson, OCTOBER 15, 1902.

THE HON. THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, WASHINGTON, D. C.:

Sir,--Prices for the customary kinds of winter fuel having reached an altitude which puts them out of the reach of literary persons in straitened circumstances, I desire to place with you the following order:

Forty-five tons best old dry government bonds, suitable for furnace, gold 7 per cents., 1864, preferred.

Twelve tons early greenbacks, range size, suitable for cooking.

Eight barrels seasoned 25 and 50 cent postal currency, vintage of 1866, eligible for kindlings.

Please deliver with all convenient despatch at my house in Riverdale at lowest rates for spot cash, and send bill to

Your obliged servant,

Mark Twain, Who will be very grateful, and will vote right.

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 21:48 | 5080098 Youri Carma
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Bad for Ebola good for the flu and book your climate change cruise early this year:

Would you take a climate change CRUISE? Ship will tour melting Arctic so tourists can see polar bears in their disappearing habitat

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2708256/Would-climate-change-CRUISE-Ship-tour-melted-Arctic-tourists-polar-bears-theres-no-mention-environmental-impact.html

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 21:51 | 5080114 metaStable
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The planet has a fever .... ummm ... chills.

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 22:01 | 5080162 Smegley Wanxalot
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The sooner it freezes the better.  Vlad can cut off the gas in Sept and watch central Europe beg for the warmth of Russian compassion.  Call it the Polar "Bear" Vortex.

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 22:39 | 5080308 ramacers
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ya!

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 22:00 | 5080164 Rusty Shorts
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The Cause. The 12,500 Year Glaciation Cycle 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4izkPDASG7U

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 00:00 | 5080521 Apply Force
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Yes - and the relationship between terra and sun is the driver (of this and most age/epoch/era major changes).

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 14:07 | 5082778 Overflow-admin
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I love the gyro experiments in space!

 

Sorry but it's all the fault of global warming:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-has-shifted-loc...

Seriously, searching about axial tilt I found this piece of shit. Even google's being sarcastic!

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 22:02 | 5080170 lakecity55
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"We must have a special tax to combat Global Cooling! we must have Carbon Onsets!"

"But, mr algore, you said it was "Global Warming and Carbon Offsets."

"No, I never said that. Those are scurrilous claims by Cooling Deniers! We have always been faced with Global Cooling!

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 22:14 | 5080216 holmes
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Bullshit analysis. There is no more cold air anywhere. Didn't everyone get the global warming memo?

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 22:16 | 5080226 q99x2
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This guy, Ben Davidson, knows what is going on with the weather. I watch his morning report each day.

SuspiciousObservers

https://www.youtube.com/user/Suspicious0bservers

The earth's protective shield has collapsed some and we are entering a Maunder minimum so things are going to be getting mighty cold quick.

Arrest Al Gore for being a retard.

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 23:35 | 5080465 db51
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lmao.   I was preparing to get into his YouTube videos...and then my eyes saw his upload about Uranus Storms.  I was out of there and back to the Russian Mature Dating Site.

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 23:40 | 5080483 failure to perform
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I followed him for awhile until I started fact-checking what he said. He puts alot of bs and made up mumbo jumbo into his bigger videos. And if you question him politely, he blocks you and deletes the question.  He's all about the ego and money.

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 22:38 | 5080305 ramacers
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good. the blood circa the blade will coagulate much faster  Q1/2 15 after the Fed bolstered 1% are rounded-up for the baskets.

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 22:48 | 5080355 champan250
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"December could get kind of wild due to the very active southern jet stream that is going to provide the moisture for bigger snowstorms," Pastelok said. "The Northeast could have a couple of big storms in December and early January."

 

Sounds like we will have great snow conditions in Vermont this year

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 01:17 | 5080652 Realname
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Snow in the northeast in winter. Pay me, bitchez!

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 23:48 | 5080438 paperjoe
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It appears Bush was right when in 2001 he pulled the US out of the Kyoto accords as one of the first acts of his presidency, dismissing global warming as “a lot hot air” while describing it as “unrealistic.” Bush even questioned the validity of the science behind global warming and claims that 21st century continuation of this warming trend will result in melting glaciers and arctic ice sheets. With clarity and keen insight, the Greatest Leader Ever even proffered that “global cooling" might be the most likely outcome and this timely ZH article validates his divine prophecy.

 

Clearly, just like he saved the Mississippi Gulf Coast from Hurricane Katrina, W was on top of the situation from the start.

 

 

God bless George W. Bush.

 

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 02:36 | 5080772 PoliticalRefuge...
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.."God bless George W. Bush."..

..another zinger.. keep em coming.

love... Laura and the girls..

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 23:31 | 5080463 I Write Code
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Moar SUVs!  Blow up all the Priussss. 

Roast Algore over charcoal, serve him with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 00:24 | 5080569 Marley
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It's the governments fault, so says the Koch Bros, so says this site.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 05:39 | 5080893 Bioscale
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Dude, your posts are misleading, stupid and useless. Why bother? Why here? Do you feel alone at home?

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 01:03 | 5080634 Shed Boy
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Could be, might, maybe, possibly. These are all weather terms. Truth is, the very BEST weather forecast is a 50-50 chance. and honestly, the weatheman rarely gets tomorrows forecast spot on, let alone a few months away. Weather forecasting is a lot like forecasting the price of Gold.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 03:57 | 5080844 robertocarlos
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It's hotter than hell here in the day and colder than hell at night. It's pretty much hell.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 05:43 | 5080896 schatzi
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Predicting long term weather patterns is like predicting the winning lottery numbers.

 

Other than that, predicting human behaviour is quite easy. So yeah, blame the weather for anything negative 2.0, is definitely on its way.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 05:49 | 5080900 Grouchy Marx
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Given the direction of the economy, it is abundantly clear that the upcoming weather will be just awful. 

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 06:05 | 5080904 Cdn1
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2 to 4 degrees below normal in Q3 is not very cold, unless you are not wearing pants, like this author.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 06:57 | 5080948 Last of the Mid...
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Looks like Wally world is cleaning out shelves and ordering lay a way trailers for chistmas already. Fucking consumers and their saving (not tapped out/s) If you don't buy we'll put out christmas stuff all year long. That'll teach 'em. The sewer line of chinese made shit is backing up all the way to China. Might be an intresting christmas with more than normal amout of mark downs.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 06:59 | 5080954 medium giraffe
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Ever get the feeling Gaia wants us gone?

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 07:23 | 5081001 underbussen
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Blame it on the Russians, Putin's orders are that everyone must fart to the nth east, thus pushing the cold air over to Nth America. Everyone together now!

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:46 | 5081181 d edwards
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Vortex, snoretex! It's just more bullshit.

 

What I'm really worried about is the Polar BEAR Vortex!

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 13:14 | 5082486 Overflow-admin
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"STORMS GET BIGGER"

 

That must be the effect of global warming /S

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 02:54 | 5086013 onmail
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Karma wants its payback from evil America ruining the whole world.

BTW Cocacola Pepsi etc. companies are spewing huge CO2 in the envioronment wth aerated drinks.

Taste of their own medicine & greed.

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