Comments on: Here’s an odd one: dogsled race canceled because there’s too much snow http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/08/heres-an-odd-one-dogsled-race-canceled-because-there%e2%80%99s-too-much-snow/ The world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change Tue, 29 May 2012 18:53:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mike D. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/08/heres-an-odd-one-dogsled-race-canceled-because-there%e2%80%99s-too-much-snow/#comment-71933 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:19:04 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=4905#comment-71933 OT, or possibly not, the Euro news agency MINA is warning folks not wear body piercings outdoors when temps are substantially below freezing:

MINA, Jan 10, 2009

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/5026/2/

Slovenia registered the lowest temperatures ever. At the Bohin resort, a half frozen weatherman standing outside, reported minus 49°C.

Slovenian Media have reported recommendations of the meteorological institute of Germany, which alarms over the risks of having piercings –- the metal earrings on people’s body could cause dangerous freezing.

No metal objects attached to the body should be worn, warns the media, for people who must venture outside. For everyone else, Slovenian media urges its citizens to stay in their homes.

This weather is not fit for man nor beast, nor punk rockers.

]]> By: rob wykoff http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/08/heres-an-odd-one-dogsled-race-canceled-because-there%e2%80%99s-too-much-snow/#comment-71360 Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:35:46 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=4905#comment-71360 Worry not. Hansen will proclaim January the third warmest in 253 billion, 115 million, 349 thousand, and 956 years

]]> By: gary gulrud http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/08/heres-an-odd-one-dogsled-race-canceled-because-there%e2%80%99s-too-much-snow/#comment-71350 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:14:44 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=4905#comment-71350 Next weeks forecast:

“From the central Plains to the Northeast temperatures are going below zero; there is no question about it. Meanwhile, the Upper Midwest and northern New England could experience readings lower than 30 below zero!”

Gore must be holding court somewhere like Chicago this weekend.

]]> By: Ecotretas http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/08/heres-an-odd-one-dogsled-race-canceled-because-there%e2%80%99s-too-much-snow/#comment-71327 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:04:39 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=4905#comment-71327 Portugal is having a snowfall to remember! Greatest in 20 years in the north. Possibility of snow in Algarve, better known for it’s Summer beaches, this night!
Ecotretas

]]> By: John-X http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/08/heres-an-odd-one-dogsled-race-canceled-because-there%e2%80%99s-too-much-snow/#comment-71284 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:32:37 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=4905#comment-71284 Beautiful Picture of Snow Cover in Europe today, at 1 km resolution (or better, if you prefer)

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2009009-0109/Europe.A2009009.1035.1km.jpg

]]> By: M White http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/08/heres-an-odd-one-dogsled-race-canceled-because-there%e2%80%99s-too-much-snow/#comment-71272 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:51:10 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=4905#comment-71272 http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/europe/surface_pressure.html

I wonder if Europe will get any snow???

]]> By: gary gulrud http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/08/heres-an-odd-one-dogsled-race-canceled-because-there%e2%80%99s-too-much-snow/#comment-71241 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:52:29 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=4905#comment-71241 “Oh well, I wasn’t going to them anyway, way too cold.”

I’m a couple of hours south. Betting cold killed prospects but isn’t a convenient scapegoat, being that we’re no longer ‘outdoorsy’ following decades of warm winters.

]]> By: Tim Clark http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/08/heres-an-odd-one-dogsled-race-canceled-because-there%e2%80%99s-too-much-snow/#comment-71219 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:56:40 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=4905#comment-71219 Leon Brozyna (01:51:01) :

And further west, let’s not forget how it’s either too cold to ski in all that snow or how there’s so much snow that the season’s turning deadly with avalanches.

I grew up in Colorado and skied every christmas vacation from 1962 to 1978 with a group. Went sking with my family 12/23-24/2008. Daytime temps in the lower teens both days. I don’t remember it being that cold back then, but it could be age related. If not, d**m your negative PDO.

]]> By: Wondering Aloud http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/08/heres-an-odd-one-dogsled-race-canceled-because-there%e2%80%99s-too-much-snow/#comment-71172 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:51:34 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=4905#comment-71172 I saw this report, this area is fairly near me, snow around here is higher than usual, temperatures so far this winter seem very low, but this really doesn’t make any sense to me. The extreme cold has made the snow so it won’t pack, but a lot of other sled dog races happen in areas that always have this powdery snow.

Oh well, I wasn’t going to them anyway, way too cold.

]]> By: WJM http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/08/heres-an-odd-one-dogsled-race-canceled-because-there%e2%80%99s-too-much-snow/#comment-71164 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:17:55 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=4905#comment-71164 Another Minnesota story appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

“Duluth woman: Freezing and alone, waiting to die ”

http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/37245029.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUnciaec8O7EyUsl

National Public Radio picked it up and ran it nationally.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99132611

Hats off to the medical team that saved her life.

The ironic part is that Dec 27 was the warmest day of the month in Duluth MN (which might explain the accident).

]]> By: ak http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/08/heres-an-odd-one-dogsled-race-canceled-because-there%e2%80%99s-too-much-snow/#comment-71157 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:59:18 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=4905#comment-71157 Does it not snow in MN? Does it not get windy in MN? Well, one thing for sure is that there won’t be any occurrence of any yellow snow this year.

]]> By: Daryl Ritchison http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/08/heres-an-odd-one-dogsled-race-canceled-because-there%e2%80%99s-too-much-snow/#comment-71149 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:54:35 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=4905#comment-71149 This is in my viewing area. Oddly, we only have 6″ more on the ground now than we did last year at this time, so I was surprised this was an issue. We did break monthly snow records in this area in December, but it was a very fluffy snow for our standards and the 30 plus inches of snow has compressed to 10-20″ on the ground as of today.

]]> By: FrancisT http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/08/heres-an-odd-one-dogsled-race-canceled-because-there%e2%80%99s-too-much-snow/#comment-71114 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:56:19 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=4905#comment-71114 By the way the Mediterranean port of Marseilles was snowbound yesterday and the day before – http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=24&art_id=nw20090108092739214C681823

That’s very unusual!

]]> By: Leon Brozyna http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/08/heres-an-odd-one-dogsled-race-canceled-because-there%e2%80%99s-too-much-snow/#comment-71098 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:51:01 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=4905#comment-71098 And further west, let’s not forget how it’s either too cold to ski in all that snow or how there’s so much snow that the season’s turning deadly with avalanches. Guess that’s what happens when folks that have grown up during the positive phase of the PDO now have to face the colder, more hazardous conditions of the PDO’s negative phase.

It’s all this darn global warm … I mean climate change that’s turning people’s expectations upside down.

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