A storm of “historic proportions”: Roads closed, 6300 airline flights cancelled, people snowbound. Snowzilla indeed. From the article:
Dubbed the “Blizzard of Oz” in Kansas, the storm coursed its way through the Midwest and Plains states — collapsing roofs, forcing highway and school closures, leaving tens of thousands without power and breaking snowfall and low-temperature records.
Airlines canceled about 6,300 flights Wednesday, according to the flight tracking service FlightAware.com. About a third of the canceled flights were out of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, one of the nation’s busiest hubs. Eighty-four flights were canceled at Los Angeles International Airport.
At least two deaths were blamed on the weather. On Long Island in New York, a homeless man set himself on fire trying to stay warm, and in Oklahoma a 20-year-old woman was killed while being pulled on a sled by a pickup that crashed into a pole.
Full story here
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While I often lament California’s nutty government, it is 61F and sunny as I write this. – Apologies.
Damn global warming
I have two related postings that might be of interest:
A salute to the meteorologists that did an incredible job on this storm: http://meteorologicalmusings.blogspot.com/2011/02/salute-to-meteorologists.html
And, why were some caught unprepared in spite of three days of warnings: http://meteorologicalmusings.blogspot.com/2011/02/why-were-people-unprepared.html
Mike
My sister is freezing in Goliad, Texas and my wife and I are going to the ballet tonight in San Fran. Go figger.
The snowpack in the mountains will be a welcome water source in summer. I am sure the Ogallala Aquifer and others will be replenished as well.
We need to kill all new water control legislation based on climate models. Unless you take wooden nickles.
http://www.agu.org/sci_pol/pending_legislation/#Water
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2000/world_water_crisis/default.stm
It’s like reporters are in a competition to win the hyperbole award.
Well you see it’s the warm air in the Arctic holding more moisture, even through that air is below freezing………..
We’re 78F and clear…………….
We got a foot of global warming dumped on us here in Missouri. 2 feet in some places…I sure want global warming to stop, this snow and cold is going to be brutal if it continues!
I think its time to pray to Al Gore to relieve our suffering and to help us not turn the Earth into a snowball through global warming…
Since Tuesday, all the school districts in the surrounding Dallas/Ft.Worth area have been cancelled due to the extreme storm that passed through. If I remember correctly, the news said the past couple of days have been the coldest in over 20 years. Also, we here in Dallas, Tx were having rotating power outages from about 6 a.m. to about 2 p.m. due the extreme cold being felt throughout the state. It’s crazy! I guess our fabulous statement “Don’t Mess with Texas” does not apply to mother nature! ;0)
Weird: Two deaths blamed storm? A homeless man setting himself on fire is blamed on the storm? A woman being pulled by a pickup on a sled hitting a telephone pole is blamed in the storm? One case of probable dementia and one case of stupidity coupled with bad driving. Concurrent with the storm, but ’caused by’?
Just a weather.
Lots of media hype. Here in Iowa, we had about six inches of snow with lots of wind. Wasn’t any worse than any other blizzard we have had.
I couldn’t get the video to play for some reason. 72 right now here.
I would blame this on AGW but AGW was found dead under a twenty foot snow drift yesterday as MonthlyMeanTemperature fell below ThirtyYearRunningAverage. MonthlyMean and ThirtyYearRunning were found later unharmed.
*yawn*
That was a storm? Where? When?
It sorta, kinda passed through Buffalo leaving less than a foot today. And Chicago only got about a foot and a half (19″) … I’ll try to be impressed … not working. In December, during one real snowstorm, in the town where I live, we got 2 feet of snow (24″) … in the village proper, 3 feet (39″) … and in an adjacent town, 4 feet (49″). So, Chicago, until you get 3 or 4 feet of snow, don’t get too excited. You can stick to watching YouTube clips of Chicagoans falling on their butts (don’t these folk have the sense to stay indoors?).
Yeah, in Vancouver BC it’s hovering around 5°C, 10°C last week. One snow dump in December, stayed a week or two, and that’s it. The west coast is outside that blocking pattern of cold.
“two-thirds” ? ? “cripples” ? ?
I’ve told them a million times not to exaggerate.
Can they show there work and/or sources.
20″ of snow in Chicago, staying inside and surfing the net. Local TV has this storm as #3 for snowfall behind only 1967 & 1999.
their work
Oh! Such a thing can happen only ONCE in a thousand years! At least we know now, beyond reasonnable doubt, that this is the LAST winter crippling storm in the next 1000 years~!
Three hours of clearing (alleged) global warming today. But it’s just weather, not climate, right…oh, wait…that was last week. Not weather IS climate, right? Or am I off again?
Sorry, but I have seen worse on many occasions. The endless nightmare was ’76 through ’79. In Atlanta, U-Haul would pay you to haul or drive an empty trailer or truck to the frozen north.
This one happened to stretch through Dallas, St. Louis, Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, and points north. It hit just about all of the several media headquarters.
It wasn’t bad in Southern Tier NY. About 5 inches with some ice. It’s actually snowing more right now than it did earlier….
dallas;
It’s just a screenshot, not a live link. Here’s the source page: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-pn-blizzard-nation-20110202,0,7222907.story
I think Joe Bastardi predicted this weeks ago………….
That’s so sad, the young lady just 20 years old.
I see homeless people getting herded by police every few trips to southern states, particularly Texas. My dog can go off chasing rabbits in the desert southwest and you’ll suddenly see people popping out of the bushes where they often live in little tents or plywood boxes. I’m wondering how many homeless just die and you hear nothing about it. So many states just push them down the road.
I saw this coming following Big Joe Bastardi tweets, giving me plenty of time to schedule going home. Spent half the day getting the [snip] Detroit Diesel to start.