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Stunning Images Of The "Siberian Express" FreezeNado
More than 100 million Americans are set to be impacted by the arctic blast known as the "Siberian Express" as record (low) temperatures are being broken across the eastern third of the nation. NBC News reports, Chicago is experiencing its coldest February since 1875 with roads in an "ice skating rink-like condition." From ice geysers to snow-golf and frozen falls, we can only imagine the breath-taking impact this 'polar-vortex'-esque weather will have on US GDP...
Coldest location in the Lower 48 Thursday morning was -42 degrees near Cotton, Minnesota. #arcticblast #mnwx pic.twitter.com/V2mqZRRuj5
— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) February 19, 2015
The coldest outbreak of the season is pushing south into the eastern United States this week. Temperatures will be running as low as 30 to 40 degrees below normal across the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic on Friday morning. Thursday night’s departure from normal temperatures is shown above in Celsius.
Windchill warnings across a third of the nation...
And the forecast for tomorrow is even lower...
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A perfectly rolled roof...
With daggers hanging from the eves...
Machines hard at work...
But people are going nowehere...
Chickens not happy...
Nor are cats...
Snow Golf anyone?
An Ice Geyser!!
And Niagara Falls has frozen!!
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And while this makes life more difficult for many - as beautiful as it is in some cases - the last time this happened, US GDP crashed 5%..
It was about a year ago today, when economist consensus, ever true to its "momentum extrapolation" ways, predicted that in the first quarter of 2014 US GDP would grow by a solid 2.2% (down from 2.9% predicted several months previously). This happened even as the very economists forecasting the GDP number allegedly had problems getting to and from work, due to all the snow and cold weather. Yes, in the middle of winter: truly unheard of.
The rest was history: a few months later when the final calculation of annualized Q1 GDP was released on June 25, the BEA reported that it had crashed by a whopping 2.9%: a delta of more than 5%!
And since nobody had predicted such an epic collapse in the US economy, an excuse was promptly cobbled together: the weather, and specifically, the "polar vortex" of January and early February, that was raging at the time when those calculating the impact of the weather on GDP only saw it subtracting a few basis points of growth.
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Exclamations!!!!
Ice Geyser - AKA Hilary Clinton!
Actually that geyser is supposedly a fountain, as there are no geysers in western NY.
This Article needs a picture of Al Gore,
http://cdn5.lastresistance.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/frozen-al-gore...
And I LOVE this cold!
Best ice fishing and snowmobiling in ages!
Only wish I could do some ice-sailing too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jumJsxsGyB0
Gotta love the cold!
And believe me those chickens are happy to be outside on a sunny day. Nice rooster too!
Headbanger
I have to concur with you on loving the cold. Although it was a balmy +6f and a 20mph wind here in Delaware this morning when I did my 15k xcrountry ski route. I love this stuff!
The great lakes are now over 85% frozen over and it is possible that an all time record will be set this year.
Here's your updated map to yesterday...
http://coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov/glsea/cur/glsea_cur.png
As long as we keep sending billions of dollars in research grants to GLOBAL WARMING "scientists" we will continue to experience man-made GLOBAL WARMING or the gravy train will be over.
I could use a good old mean gap down crash of say 20% Friday
RISING Temps (warming), ALL OVER THE ENTIRE world (global) cause record cold.
Democrats appear to be too stupid to understand what global and warming mean.
They are all salivating at the prospect of controlling global economies through the use of carbon caps, taxes and trading.
lol...how's that manmade global warming working out for everyone!
looking at the sky...shaking fist...yelling as loud as possible...PUUUTTTTTTTIIIIIIINNNNN!!!!!!!
From Russia with Love.
I blame this whole deep freeze thing explicitely on those mother fuckers who "cured" the Earth from global warming after bitching about it for so fucking long!
Well thanks a lot, you asshole do-gooders!
FUCK YOU, DOUCHE BAGS! Now how are we going to grow food and have a GDP and shit???
I guess we're going to have to burn a whole fucking lot more coal now to keep our cold asses warm, huh bitchez???
Unintended consequences...the epidemic of scumbag lefties.
;-)
Salivating at the prospect of ice-free polar shipping lanes is more like it.
If I were the Inuit people of the North I would be hiring really really good lawyers right about now. You think your culture/lands have been raped up to now? You ain't seen nothing yet. Sad. Very very truly sad. Like watching the Amazon rape go into high gear one more time.
bingo. during the kennedy era, they had this great idea, we will pay for that for centuries.
just talked to a friend out west in washington. rivers running at june capacity. no snow in the mountains.
Confirmed on what the Olympic mountains look like. Not much of a winter here. Likely forest fires again this summer.
I can see Alaska off the beach on a sunny day. Today was sunny; about 50F. So freeze away you folks as I watch the beaches erode with rising sea levels. Think it took about 20 feet this year. Nope no warming here,
But here is an amateur observation. The sand dunes that I see being eroded back are revealing logs and ancient old trees that were stabilizing under the dunes. Every yard of dune that is eroding is revealing old logs that ???? ago rolled in with the tides and had sand cover, and became the dunes.
Taking many photos.
I climbed Mt Rainier a few years back. Guy asked me to take his pic at the summit. It was his hundredth summit, he was there the day that serac fell and killed a bunch of people in the 80s. He said the muir snowfield was at least 100 yards further than it was in the 80s. This winter may be weak out west but last winter here in WV was the worst winter since 77 and this little snap is setting records too.
It is called weather. It happens every day.
Pollution is bad because it is pollution not because of global warming (lies, conspiracy, theft by the left).
Lake Michigan froze over complely last year. It makes for a bitch of a summer. I didn't think it would happen this year as December and January were no where near what they were last year. Shit, I want to enjoy the beach this year!
Lake Superior had you walking out quite a ways if you wanted to fish last year, haven't seen it this year. You had to love ice fishing to drill through that shit. Looks like it will freeze over completely this year, too.
Let me know when o2 levels fall below 19% at sea level.
Gwynne Dyer chose 2175 in his 2008 book Climate Wars. Chillax, throw another shrimp on the barbi, let the good times roll, let the fun begin ; )
(Canfield Oceans)
I too must second your concurence...this cool 63 degree afternoon temperature here in Houston is very refreshing.
I do not envy your humid summers. You can keep them.
The high temp here at my location in E Central FLA was 49.7F.
Should be in the low 30's by morning.
DaddyO
Back in the 50s I read stories about the Hardy Boys ice boating. I have wanted to do it for the past 60 years. I suppose there is something that could get me to return to the MidWest....or the Norse countries.
Chet Morton was an idiot...
My guess is he hung with the brothers only to get to Nancy D...pure speculation , yes...but likely..Oh Yes!
Anyway I still want to go ice boating. I've done everything else.
That sounds like the dumbest thing one could do. Gee, Bob it's -20F out with a wind, let's go boating!
You should stay inside and help the ladies darn the socks.
mmmmmmmm chicken! [I <3 animals, they're delicious]!
They say this has been the warmest winter on record in the continental US , I call bull shit.
Here in North Dakota on the whole it has been a very mld winter , but now as always in Feb it is down to -32f at night but just for a week and then a balmy 20f for the rest of it.
The data will be selected to match the storyline.
Science is not democracy. It is a cage fight from which only the victor emerges. Ask Urban VIII how he came out of the one with Gallileo
Western WA set a high temp record on the 17th due to all the weather manipulation.
Headbanger, ice sailing looks pretty fing sweet. I love this stuff too, live too far south and hardly ever get it like this. Been hiking everyday and will tomorrow.
well hanging it all out on a sailboat is the cats ass, i don't know about capsizing an iceboat, bet that ice would tear you up. bet you could put thin sled rails along the botttoms of a 16 hobie and have a blast. twin trapeze with 2 who know how to move
You love it, Headbanger, but I damn near died of hypothermia as I walked to the post office to send my editor my latest article on global warming.
Now, where's my extra duvet?
That half-baked reptilian does not know how to function in freezing conditions.
On second thought that china-hugging-monk loving-dipstick doesn't understand how to function regardless of any condition...
Latest spin is that the COOLING is caused by the WARMING. Who knew? I'm attempting to reproduce the effect on my stove.
The trouble with this kind of reality check is that it doesn't wake up the flip-flopping leaf-eating Left-Coasters who are the most devoted, outspoken worshippers at the altar of the Global Warming Industrial Complex. I was talking yesterday with an attractive but dippy fake-blonde student of Environmental Science who launched into a tirade about the outrageously mild weather caused by rampant Global Warming: SHE HAD NO IDEA THAT THE REST OF THE CONTINENT IS IN A RECORD-BREAKING DEEP FREEZE. "REALLY?!?"
"Latest spin is that the COOLING is caused by the WARMING. Who knew? I'm attempting to reproduce the effect on my stove."
This is not new; it was featured prominantly in the 2004 climate disaster film "The Day After Tomorrow":
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319262/
and with an academic touch on South Park:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI4oBLhzu-0
I tried that last summer.
I turned all the burners on my gas stove to high when it was 92 degrees and humid. Waited for three days for it to cool down. Never did...........Strange, huh ??
Yah but sometimes those ditzy things are the best because they don't figure out you were trying to climb on her till after...
give her your polar forecast
To keep things in perspective Anchorage Alaska just had its first year without droping into negative temps...ever.
I just went camping up in the Cascades 2 weeks ago. No snow anywhere except the highest peaks, 65 to 70 degrees, had lunch at the summit people were wearing shorts and flip flops. Owner of the diner said he never saw it so dry or warm and he is second generation owner.
My Pa in Law has had to run irrigation on his 50 acres for the first time ever in Jan/Feb.
But I still don't see what Al Gore has to do with anything?
Al Gore is just the front man to get people thinking that you need to be taxed to offset costs of modifying the weather.
Starting to look like they missed the boat. 25 years angling to get that carbon tax fund going, gigatons of carbon consumed (think of the money!), decarbonization now picking up steam. DOH!
James Burke presenting from an empty United Nations General Assembly in 1989...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfE8wBReIxw&feature=player_detailpage#t=...
(note: 15 years before An Inconvenient Truth)
Damn you russians, damn you...you will pay for this...this is an act of war. We will fight back.. They are trying to intimidate us but we won't be intimidated. USA USA USA
KKKHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, but i've seen too many comments about 'Global warming' and the fact we are having a cold winter.
Global warming doesn't mean everywhere on the planet gets hotter. What it does mean is that there will be higher spikes in the weather...More rain in some places, more draught in others....and storms will be more violent.
Please stop equating a coldwinter as a refutation of global warming ....the facts are known and agreed to by 99% of honest scientists.
There, fixed it for ya!
So here's the million dollar question for you, genius: Do you believe climate change is being caused by man or by natural forces?
both; and refute that, ha...
Ok so give me some % of each.
I am so tired of being told, over and over and over, that "It's Different This Time," as though repetition will somehow make it true. Stupid sheep. If you want to throw believers a curve, ask them where the "Green" movement originates. Most return a blank stare.
Global Warming is all the fault of the Clovis Indian people who started driving Cadillac Escalades & Hummers 10,000 years ago & started melting the ice sheets in the northern hemisphere.
@ssholes! [They should have been driving Priuses & Coal fired Chevy Volts].
He who smelt it, dealt it.
Well, what it does mean is that data is falsified for political purposes (yet another known fact). FTFY!
Also, I just love how you equate consensus posturing with science. Especially since an HONEST scientist would never fall for such pressure from the status quo. Yet it's so bad that 99% now do?
I guess I'm the only one old enough to remember when skepticism was a hallmark of the scientific method.
Dear Gullible Buffoon aka BreadOnwaters,
It seems that you are too stupid to know what global and warming mean.
Global = ALL OVER THE ENTIRE PLANET....i.e. EVERYWHERE
Warming = Rising temperatures
So tell me how record cold temperatures are even possible if it's getting warmer everywhere.
And everyone knows climate (THE WEATHER CONDITIONS) changes...I bet you are too dumb to know climate and weather are synonyms. Do you even know what a synonym is.
MMMm synonym and toast.
Some will never understand - mostly those that refuse to even try. If you really want to know "how record cold temperatures are even possible if it's getting warmer everywhere", you could attempt to find out by asking and then listening/reading for an answer. You may even recognize that your statement is not correct.
It's not actually getting warmer everywhere (at the same time). That's not a true statement, and that's not what global warming implies. It does imply that the average temperature across the entire planet is going up over time. Again, on average. It says nothing about the weather in any given location at any given time. Last year was the warmest on record, on average. There were record high temperatures set in some locations, and record low temperatures in others.
While global warming does not imply anything other than rising temperatures, one consequence is more erratic weather. There are many other consequences, one of which is record cold in one area of the globe at the same time as record heat in another area.
Climate and weather are not synonyms
climate |?kl?mit| nounthe weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period: our cold, wet climate | agricultural development is constrained by climate.
weather |?weT?H?r| nounthe state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.: if the weather's good, we can go for a walk.
Or maybe you were being sarcastic the whole time. Hard to tell.
You're wasting your time. The average ZH trogdolytes refuse to belive anything even actual science (see vaccinations, evolution, etc.). Every winter they come out and say "It's coooollddd outside! Where's your global warming now!" The ZH crowd is a bunch of children who stick their fingers in their ears (among other places) to drown everything out but what they read in these comments. The world will be a better place when these idiots are gone. They're no better than ISIS but equally humorous.
Fuck you too bitch!
well I guess the summation is :" man made global warming" will have to wait for summer.
now can't we all just get along?
Your first point is good but you are hardly one to question other people's intelligence. weather and climate are not synonymous. Weather is short term, climate is long term. A freeze in Florida doesn't mean it has a polar climate, and 95 degrees with thunderstorms doesn't make Arizona tropical. here is the google page for kids so you can understand it -- https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/home
" ....the facts are known and agreed to by 99% of honest scientists."
By 100% of scientists who make a living off of studying climate change you mean?
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
How do you know an 'honest scientist' when you see one.
How do you argue that there is warming when the N polar cap is stable but the S polar cap is enlarging to beyond all time highs.
Maybe you get an 'honest scientist' to tell you.??
Hey bread, what percent agreed on global cooling in the 70s and global warming in the 50s (both made time covers). Also, how much should I value a guess from my local phd meteorologist about the temps in one month?
HEY VLAD, SEND SOME OF THAT SHIT TO SOCAL!!! ITS TOO WARM AND DRY OVER HERE!!!
The Broskie-doodz need to spread that tough love around a 'lil bit.
she is not the Geyser but she knows where to put it. Looks like a perfect fit for her.
An ice dildo for the ice whore. Pretty fitting indeed.
It's a fucking rainbow! What does it mean?!?!?!?!?
Double post.
Double rainbow post.
Putin's fault!
It's true! The Daily Mail says so
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2954933/Can-Russia-control-weath...
Ya one nasty, skanky , ugly, frigid geyser.....unsettling thoughts. .......
Yeah, its cold...but this time its diffrent right? Global laming at its best.
The differance will be they will never give the true gdp plus 6 id say rite
IT sucks balls in hell. Bizarro weather inside the matrix.
Not fit for man nor beast!
Into my second blast of "holy fuck!" A bird tried to come thru my doorwall several times. Sure interested my cat. Then it flew in my garage and is probably frozen stiff, somewhere.
So it is fact that they chemtrail for geoengineering for climate control or manipulation. Are they fucked up doing it or is there something else in the mix we are not told about?
Yours truly,
Blue Balls
my neighbor's aunt makes $61 every hour on the internet . She has been fired for 6 months but last month her income was $15305 just working on the internet for a few hours. more info here... www.globe-report.com
your neighbors aunt is a naughty little bitch and jills for bills.
I f#*ked your Aunt in the ass and then paid her with carbon tax credits redeemable with Al Gore
"FreezeNado" lol!
Priceless :)
I'm sorry for all your suffering...
Another rough day here in Waikiki
Enjoy the Fukushima radiation; I know the Sea Lion pups on the West Coast are & have been and setting all time beaching records!!
Croc...you can spear those pups. tastes like Chicken....and they make a great coat for the misses also
Do you have a birth certificate? or did you move there via Kenya & Indonesia?
TM, I have a birth certificate that says I was born in Canada to a Canadian Father and American mother. I grew up thinking that meant I could never be President, since I am not a "Natural Born Citizen."
When I brought up Obama's NBC issue amongst friends, I was shouted down as a racist.
It still hurts to think about my brother calling me a racist.
Well then here's hoping he gets a job transfer to Cleveland.
Thanks TM
Turning on the AC here in AZ.
our first time to Hawaii last July, terribly hot and humid (like Florida in August), not what we were expecting Mr. Chamber of Commerce. Guess our timing was just bad.
Can you even see the ocean with all that vog?
RED DAWN! Damn you Russian Weather Manipulators!
Russia laughs at this. They have 2. Seasons, summer and winter. And their winters are far worse.
yes=)
Dayvear! Svimvear!
Or, as an old mountain doctor used to say, "Three months of winter and 9 months of damn cold weather."
-34F this morning in my home town in the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
If it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger.
..or it's just killing you slowly.
This global warming polar vortex isn't going to be going away anytime soon.
My guess is that it will probably kill you.
Eat me!
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=giant+lake+trout+ice+fishing+lake+superior&FORM=VIRE4#view=detail&mid=74242E8D0AE34FABB97274242E8D0AE34FABB972
Awesome!
Always buy the largest auger... and when a huge muskie comes up head first don't reach down it's mouth. Learned that the hard way...
Or if it doesn't kill you we won't know till the thaw.
Now realize what Russia must fight since end of Ice age.
Fight what? it's a winter, holidays,skis?
wtf wrong with you?
Ski my aching ass. So cold poor dog can't take a decent shit.
Ice skates react off melting ice on the blades. So fucking cold your skates will squeak, if your toes don't freeze in the next ten minutes.
People don't live longer from these assholes in the medicine community, though heart stints are cool and helping a quality of life. People died 150 years ago because they got sick from making visits to the out house shitter.
I've snowboarded in 20 below three seperate occassions. Thank god for good whiskey. Can't feel the frostbite setting in.
you just a pussy, little pinky pussy xD ROFL
This is why we have central heating. I hope you understand that now, at least
Global warming and Obama. 2 greatest frauds of the modern era!!
It is why both names were changed...Barry to Obama and Global warming to climate change. Makes perfect sense.
Lucy trained 'em.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=055wFyO6gag
You do realize that CLIMATE and WEATHER are two separate things, right? Kind of like conservatives and intellectuals.
If you'd step away from your echo chamber for two seconds, you'd easily find out that this winter has actually been one of the warmest on record here in the US. The sixth-warmest, in fact.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/climatological-rankings/index.p...
Then again, it's only science, not faith.
Well I guess it needs to get warmer then ice lover.
Kind of like conservatives and intellectuals.
+1 for the funny!
AGW is faith, not science. This is science...
6CO2 + 6H2O + Sunlight Energy ------> C6H12O6 + 6O2
Where: CO2 = carbon dioxide
H2O = water
Light energy is required
C6H12O6 = glucose
O2 = oxygen
Plant biology 101
C6 = 666 lol
Weather report: "In the Rocky Mtns - CLOUDY In the Cloudy Mtns - ROCKY"
Is that with real temperature readings or "adjusted" ones like they use to go back and extrapolate warming trends in areas that don't have monitoring?
The adjustments are utterly astounding.
Not only that... they NEVER provide/publish the methodologies and codes used to justify the adjustments just their adjusted results. It is considered to be PROPRIETARY information.
"Burton’s key point is this: where Cowtan claims that all NOAA’s adjustments have done is increased warming by a modest 3 per cent, in actuality they have increased it by 35 per cent. So, far from Cowtan’s assessment that these adjustments are “inconsequentially tiny”, they are in fact quite massively distorting."
http://www.globalresearch.ca/breathtaking-adjustments-to-arctic-temperat...
For those with a strong stomach... check out the BEST adjustments to Paraguays temperature set. The country was cooling before but now it's heating up like a Al Gore said it would...
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/01/31/saturday-silliness-the-best-adjust...
"They lie about everything. Why would they lie about this?
The banksters need to repay us.
A .gov web address.
Are you really providing a link to a government agency that was caught lying about termperature data?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarming/11395516/The-fiddling-with-temperature-data-is-the-biggest-science-scandal-ever.html
Back to the huffingtonpost threads for you.
Or Liberals and Dopes....ya they go together.
Clearly a learned and well read person like yourself has read that NOAA and two other US government agencies have manipulated the RAW temperature data to hide the facts. Fortunately, less trusting individuals kept records of the original data. The data was modified to make our current temperatures look much warmer than the 1930's. You can fact check that.
Here you go... "Inside the Global Warming Scandal"
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/02/inside-the-global-warming-...
Karl Denninger has a good post of global warming fraud too....
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=229833
Is that using the raw or seasonally adjusted data?
The raw data is first adjusted and then seasoned some more...
I believe Jeff Spicoli said it correctly ...
"You dick!"
I'm not saying that the planet isn't warming or cooling, or who knows what.... but thats the whole point, we only have semi-accurate temperature data for not even 100 years, for a planet that is several billion years old! New York harbor was said to have consistently frozen in the 15th century, we didn't even have an industrial revolution with massive carbon emmissions until the 1800's.
how can we say "the debate is over" and humans are causing it, that goes against the scientific method
Don't have even "semi-accurate" temp data for last 100 years. Those living off the boondoggle have massaged the data to a degree that would embarrass even the BLS.
I, uh, think The Sun is mostly in charge of all this.
Do you let your kids piss in your swimming pool? That pool is 1000's of gallons and there is no way a bladder or two can affect the water.
I have forbidden peeing in the pool. I myself do it because I'm the boss around here. I have notived that the kids never seem to have to pee while using the pool. Banning it works.
I checked your link, it's only for two months, December & January. Climatological Winter includes February, so the data is incomplete. Let's review it in March, using the full three months data.
I also went back to look at October & November, and it was exactly normal for the USA, so you can see how just two months can fluctuate dramatically. The time period seleted is just too short to prove anything.
Yes, climate and weather are two different things; but both rely on computer models to predict future behavior, genius. Take your they're-dumb card somewhere else.
Yes instead of going out in the REAL world and observing REAL things (like scientists of the past), the climate "scientists" like to sit in front of their little laptops and play with the variables until they get the "facts" they were paid to come up with.
minus "freezingyourassoff" doesn't care what a .gov website says, they lie about everything else.
double post
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It's so cold your save button is shivering.
Google "temperature record systematically falsified" to reorient yourself in the direction of the real world
That was all debunked. But don't let that get in the way of your ignorance on climate.
Not even close when the temp readings are "adjusted."
The nerve of those record keepers keeping historical records on PAPER! My God, don't they know that's traceable? Digital records(and votes) are much easier manipulated.
The colder it gets; the more my furnace burns...so although I may not be running to the store....the colder it gets the furnace does the running and the economy keeps chugging.
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"It's all a bunch of lies - man!!" - Philmore (CARS)
Tonight in Pittsburgh, we'll drop to about minus-10. By Sunday morning, we'll be pushing 40 with snow mixing/changing to rain.
That's what it's like here. We get cold, then warm up, with little snow. Winter is just a prick-tease here in SW Pennsylvania.