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.
Kip Hansen says: February 2, 2011 at 5:30 pm
“One case of probable dementia and one case of stupidity coupled with bad driving.”
“Two deaths blamed storm? ”
Not exaclty, CO2 caused the Global Warming and Global Waring caused the storm.
So the root cause is not ‘the storm’ but rather CO2.
Just like the deaths caused by the heat wave around Moscow last summer, most of them were people getting drunk and the going for a swim to cool off and drowning because of the Global Warming caused by CO2.
If it had not been for Global Warming caused by CO2 these people would not have gone in the water and drown, they would have walked in to traffic and been killed by a CO2 emmiting device. Either way they would have been killed by CO2.
/sarc
It’s worse than we thought!
Was sunny and 70 in Charleston, SC. And we don’t have the gov’t of CA..just Georgia next door.
Cyclones and hurricanes need warm water plus a temperature difference. Warming increases the temperature at the poles, causing less variation from tropics to poles.
Now that the temperature is falling we can expect more cyclones and hurricanes.
My prediction for the next few years: cold + windy (storms, cyclones, hurricanes). The exact opposite of what Global Warming predicts.
Look around the world now: A huge cyclone in Qld that fizzes out due to lack of warm water; blizzards and record cold in the northern hemisphere.
What a laugh. The Alarmists are going to spin and spin until they become an absolute joke. What a tragedy. Hundreds of billions squandered on a scam. People in the third world going hungry while we turn food into fuel.
Let’s see … cycle gives a storm peak every 34 or 35 years, with more trouble on the downward side.
2011 – (34 or 35) = 1976-7, an upward turn. Yup, see comment above. And I also remember 1976-7 in Oklahoma. Fierce.
1976 – 34 = 1942, a downward turn.
Quick check of Google news archive for “1942 blizzard”:
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=1942+blizzard&btnG=Search&um=1&ned=us&hl=en&scoring=a
Yup. Not just articles from ’42, but many from ’56 or ’66 saying “this year’s blizzard is nothing compared to the monstrous blizzards of ’42.”
Here I thought it was Snow’s evil twin, Warmzilla as the warmists would have us believe.
In Denver it was pretty cold this morning, -17 F, but that was not the all time record for this date. The all time record low for Feb 2 happend in 2007.
Darn global warming!
You think it was bad in the states?
Here there was tragedy! Snow in Toronto!
The news yesterday was not about the weather at any one place, instead it was the fact that it was snowing in the rockies and it was snowing in New Jersey, and it was the same storm system. How often has that happened?
I am finding it quite entertaining watching the media. I think they down a couple of those high test caffine drinks before they go online. Anthony if you ever feel you are getting bored and don’t know how to fill your time start another website were we can post media hype and inaccuracies.
Evidently Global Warming also causes “stupid”.
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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.
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No big whoop here in most of PA. Couple inches of snow, some ice that melted by about 9am. I know there are some power outages around the state. Pretty unimpressive. Windy and cold as heck now.
10 Feb, 2009
Alex Hill, the chief government adviser with the Met Office, told The Scotsman there was no future for skiing in Scotland because climate change would see winters become too warm for regular snowfall.
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2 Feb, 2011
“There’s no inconsistency at all,” Michael Mann, the director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center, told LiveScience. “If anything, this is what the models project: that we see more of these very large snowfalls.”
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I love Steve’s blog 😉
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/
First photo shown by Chicago Tribune is rather apocalyptic….why these drivers thought they could make it along Lake Shore Drive boggles my mind!! We had winds up to 80 mph, snow and water blowing over from the lake:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/
However, for all this broo-hah, I do remember worse, including my favorite, 1967:
Following are the five top winter storms to hit Chicago:
1. 23.0 inches on Jan. 26-27, 1967
2. 21.6 inches on Jan .1-3, 1999
3. 20.2 inches on Feb. 1-2, 2011
4. 19.2 inches on March 25-26, 1930
5. 18.8 inches on Jan. 13-14, 1979
Bastardi: 3 of Next 5 Winters Could be as Cold or Colder
http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/45220/bastardi-three-of-next-five-wi.asp
I’ve always lived on the West Coast, so maybe one of you can tell me, does it ever just snow on the Eastern Seaboard?
You know, just plain old snow.
Or is it always snowzilla, of historic proportions, slamming the East, crippling 2/3rds of the Nation?
Could this be a predictable aftermath of the recent El Nino?
Consider the News from Chicago: “The total snowfall made it the third worst snowstorm on record, behind only blizzards in 1967 — when 23 inches blanketed the city — and 1999 — when 21.6 inches fell.”
(http://beaconnews.suntimes.com/3615687-417/drive-lake-wednesday-police-shore.html)
Interesting: 1967, 1999, 2011.
Note that the strongest El Nino years include: 1965, 1997, & 2009. — exactly two years prior each time.
(http://ggweather.com/enso/oni.htm)
I got about 16″ here in western New Hampshire. Roads were pretty bad, but the snow is GREAT skiing snow! It’s like Colorado…well, almost ;^)
They’re forecasting another potential snowfall for this Saturday, then possibly another next week…
Ed Mertin says:
February 2, 2011 at 5:53 pm
Nah sorry Ed. this is the type of thinking/feeling that gets us in trouble.
We need to toughen up.
Natural selection dictates that not all will spread their genes. Us humans have circumvented that to some degree, so we get stooopid bearing stooopid bearing moron ad nauseum.
Our species needs to shed some stupid ED. It’s stupid that leads us to be conned by scams like AGW and Y2K and bird flu and snake oil etc etc
Just think Darwin awards
We got off light compared to what we were told to expect in SE Michigan, they were expecting 9-15 inches of heavy snow on top of base of ice from freezing rain, but got 9 inches officially and no freezing rain. Locally I’d guestimate an honest 15 inches near lake Huron, drifts up to 24 inches, I was afraid the lake effect would really bury us! The snow has stopped and the sky is crystal clear so it’ll be a cold one tonight.
Anthony:
Just returned to MN after 11 days in AZ. Similar temps as yours. Much more stable and less kooky government than CA. Not bankrupt. OK, no ocean…but no Earthquakes either. And, chocolate covered scorpions are tasty! So I’ve vote for AZ as superior to -6 F Global Warming/Radiative Cooling (tonight in MN).
Dry, cold and dusty here in Eastern Washington state. Not a drop of snow in sight. Our local global warming crowd is doing the happy dance around our lack of snow, which conveniently proves to them that global warming is real, ignoring our cold and the precipitation pattern going north and south of our never ending high pressure system.
Gads, why did I order all those snow blowers? Oh that’s right, because the forecasters were predicting higher than average snow fall for the northwest U.S. and I am a greedy capitalist.
@ur momisugly Carl Chapman
“A huge cyclone in Qld that fizzes out due to lack of warm water”
Yasi hit Tully at Cat 5.
I don’t think anyone there would call 300kmh wind, houses, towns and plantations destroyed, and another 3 – 5 days without power as a “fizzer”
The good thing to come out of Yasi is that the strengthened building code, and the state of preparedness, and the warning system worked as it was meant to. So far no loss of life, and as it slowly tracks inland, yes, it is dying out, still going to hit Mt Isa at Cat 2 though later tonight.
And full credit to Queensland Premier Anna Bligh, for fronting up and making the call to evacuate in time, and managing the emergency services.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10703850
I’m glad that CRS, Dr. PH weighed in. We humans of the electronic age seem to have very short memories and lack the ability to read the history books or converse with those who are older than 70 years. Big storm; yes. Historical proportions; maybe. Biggest ever; I don’t think so…
Theo Barker says:
February 2, 2011 at 8:28 pm
I’m glad that CRS, Dr. PH weighed in. We humans of the electronic age seem to have very short memories and lack the ability to read the history books or converse with those who are older than 70 years. Big storm; yes. Historical proportions; maybe. Biggest ever; I don’t think so…
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Thanks, Theo! I was in seventh grade for the all-time record snow in Chicago (1967), and that was my first experience with crowds rushing to grocery stores, hoarding bread & milk etc.
The city really did quite a bit better this time, and I’m sure it is due to improvements in forecasting (the ’67 snow was a complete surprise, it had been very warm 60’s a few days before), GPS, smart phone communication etc.
However, Lake Shore Drive remains clogged with fools who thought their vehicles were more powerful than Lake Michigan. It’s amazing that nobody died in that mess.
Well, this Afternoon here in LaGrande, Oregon . A squadron of robins hit port, and
proceeded to feast on the few berries that have survived the winter. Things are indeed
looking up… The big storm has interfered with my business however, shipments, mail
etc. all slowed to a crawl….