What's happening?? It's so cold outside!

[Onkel Neal]

Man, heavy snow in south Texas early December, now 4 days of sub-freezing cold. My horse does not like this weather, and I don't either.

CNN says all 50 states are freezing? What? Even Hawaii? Ha, I don't think so. Fake news! :D

Anyone in the North dealing with those deep snow blizzards I see on the Weather Channel?

[Schroeder]

The weather is getting more extreme all over the world.:-?

[Eichhörnchen]

There's a cold gale battering our little house on the prairie right now... very dark out there this morning.

[Mr Quatro]

yes it is cold even colder for blondes

https://scontent-dft4-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/26169048_260018857864571_13662197973935642_n.jpg?o h=752254cdbbd4acfaec1e3b7c4b9fde45&oe=5ABD7DF9

[STEED]

Wall to wall sunshine with a howling wind here. Look if the rest of you are fed up with the cold and snow move to Southern England its warm 99% all year round. :)

[u crank]

A funny thing happens around here every year. Around November it starts to get cold. By January it gets really cold. And this white stuff falls like magic from the sky. Then around April it all goes away. It's a mystery. The government and scientists need to look into this and do something. I've written letters but get no answers. Anybody know what's going on?

[STEED]

A funny thing happens around here every year. Around November it starts to get cold. By January it gets really cold. And this white stuff falls like magic from the sky. Then around April it all goes away. It's a mystery. The government and scientists need to look into this and do something. I've written letters but get no answers. Anybody know what's going on?

Junkies are snorting it. :|\\:|\\

[Skybird]

Some atmospheric air stream over the Northern pole rotated slow the past months, due to the warming there having decreased temperature differences which are vital to keep this air movement at higher pace. The lower activity leads to slower air streams more southwards, with the result that cold temperatures showing up there do not get transported away that qucikly as they used to. Its a paradoxical effect of warming at the poles. The same was predicted for Europe this winter as well, but so far has not materialised. Could still happen, however. We have had unusual many gales and storms and way above average precipitation, floodings in 2017 over here.

Sorry for my free use of layman terminology.

[ikalugin]

Clearly we hacked your weather.

[Onkel Neal]

Some kind of "bomb cyclone" headed your way, Yanks, any precautions you can take? Does this kind of thing shut you in the house?

[Rockstar]

Were expecting freezing temps, high winds and a buttload of snow. Then as the system moves northward the winds will back to the south and draw in warm air expecting temps to reach the mid forties Monday.

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

Some kind of "bomb cyclone" headed your way, Yanks, any precautions you can take? Does this kind of thing shut you in the house? Whatever this "bomb cyclone" weather system is it really doesn't look good! https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/01/02/monster-storm-to-blast-east-coast-before-polar-vortex-uncorks-tremendous-cold-late-this-week/?utm_term=.b0308da75ff8

I mean really -16F in Jacksonville by the 6th?! For some reason this weather reminds me of the movie "The Day After Tomorrow". So what next bowling ball sized hail in Tokyo?

[propbeanie]

Clearly we hacked your weather.
:har::har::har: - stop! I can't ~breathe~!!!... :har::har::har:

[AVGWarhawk]

Some kind of "bomb cyclone" headed your way, Yanks, any precautions you can take? Does this kind of thing shut you in the house?

The further north one travels the more they find folks address these storms without issue. Just another day for most. Some welcome it and enjoy getting shut in for a day or two. I have a friend in NH who every year posts pictures of firewood stacking and putting away his convertible mustang for winter. Just a way of life for them. However, go to GA and snowflake shuts the state down for days on end. I recall BO during his first term(2011) made a joke about closing of federal buildings and schools as a result of 1 inch of snow on the ground in DC. Keeping in mind BO lived in Chicago. He got beat up a bit over it.

[AVGWarhawk]

Clearly we hacked your weather.

Putin? Again?

[mapuc]

it's not Putin & Co

It's this HAARP thing who are responsible for this :D

Markus

[aanker]

I read somewhere that Pacific ocean currents - the el nino, la nina thing has pulled the jet stream South which is sucking all this Arctic cold weather over North America.

Hopefully winter will return to the more bearable temps we are used to by mid January. My heat bill is ridiculous.

[AVGWarhawk]

This guy is responsible:

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ba/29/d4/ba29d4f28ee971dba37c9040465cd9ec--christmas-scenes-christmas-movies.jpg

[Mr Quatro]

I mean really -16F in Jacksonville by the 6th?! For some reason this weather reminds me of the movie "The Day After Tomorrow". So what next bowling ball sized hail in Tokyo?

There goes the price of orange juice ... I was paying $3.00 for a bottle and now it's $5.00 for the same size and now it will probably go up to $6.00. :o

[AVGWarhawk]

Always vitamin C in a pill. Just add water! :D

[em2nought]

Putin? Again?

Great there goes another six months of Federal Government inactivity and spending on nothing as they make a big deal trying to sort this out, and fail miserably. By then it will be June, and it will sort itself out. :har:

[Platapus]

It was a brisk 7 degrees F this morning when I walked the dogs.

[Catfish]

64,4 degrees Fahrenheit/18 degrees Celsius and storm. In january!? :doh:

[komi]

Best of luck folks! I've heard how rough it can get in places like the Atlantic seaboard. Stay safe :)

[Onkel Neal]

The further north one travels the more they find folks address these storms without issue. Just another day for most. Some welcome it and enjoy getting shut in for a day or two. I have a friend in NH who every year posts pictures of firewood stacking and putting away his convertible mustang for winter. Just a way of life for them. However, go to GA and snowflake shuts the state down for days on end. I recall BO during his first term(2011) made a joke about closing of federal buildings and schools as a result of 1 inch of snow on the ground in DC. Keeping in mind BO lived in Chicago. He got beat up a bit over it.



Doesn't "getting shut in for a day or two" mean the same thing as "shuts the state down for days" ? Sounds the same to me :03:

[Gargamel]

Doesn't "getting shut in for a day or two" mean the same thing as "shuts the state down for days" ? Sounds the same to me :03:

Nope, up here, those who know they can't drive in the snow just signal defeat and stay home. Schools close because they know some kids will get frostbite, and it's not worth the risk of a bus accident. But everybody else just keeps plodding along. We (northerners) usually keep enough snow plows on hand to handle all but the worst of storms. Usually roads are passable during the storms, and fully cleared within 12-18 hours.

Short of massive power failures do to storms, I can't remember a blizzard stopping me from going anywhere, or shutting down the city.

It's just not economical for southern states to keep a fleet of plows available. Here, we have plows that tow other unmanned plows, in the other lane.

http://www.michigan.gov/images/mdot/MDOT_TowPlow_405818_7.jpg

Where I went to school in up up up state New York, they had old halftracks converted to plows for some of the back roads.

[ikalugin]

I mean really -16F in Jacksonville by the 6th?! For some reason this weather reminds me of the movie "The Day After Tomorrow". So what next bowling ball sized hail in Tokyo?
We sometimes get a few days of -30C in Moscow, and Moscow climate is mild by Russian standards. But then we have central heating.

As a rule (if you are not fammiliar with cold weather conditions) I would advise covering exposed facial features, ie nose and ears, at temperatures below -20, wearing a hat, gloves, 4 layers of regular clothing (ie T-shirt->shirt->sweatshirt->regular jacket/coat), including multiple layers for your legs (ie not just underwear and parts/trousers/jeans).

For buildings you need to ensure that there is no free airflow through unauthorised openings (ie cracks in the window frames), if there are - tape them. If you have any piping in the area that may freese - make sure there is no water in the piping or it may crack.

[u crank]

Oh great. This weather bomb is heading my way. Expecting to start around noon AST. Lots of snow/changing to rain, winds gusting to 110 km/h (68 mp/h). Also higher than normal tides could cause damaging storm surge along coastal areas. Schools are closed and people are being warned to stay off roads. Of course my wife and daughter are going to work. Probably be a short day.

[Onkel Neal]

It sounds pretty intense.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/3/16846134/bomb-cyclone-winter-storm-east-coast

A bomb cyclone happens when atmospheric pressure in the middle of the storm drops at least 24 millibars over 24 hours, quickly increasing in intensity. (The lower the pressure, the stronger the storm.) This particular bomb cyclone sweeping through the East Coast is forecasted to drop by 36 millibars, which is a lot. According to Martin, it means the storm is going to lose the equivalent of about 3.5 percent of the entire mass of the whole atmosphere, from the ground to outer space. “It’s exceptionally intense,” he says. “That’s the most unusual thing about this storm.”

[Sean C]

The sun is just coming up here and it looks like we've gotten about six inches of snow so far. It's tough to tell because the wind is gusting pretty hard. Some spots have drifts of twelve inches or more. Other places I can still see the grass poking through.

My wife is off today, but where I work there is no closing because of weather. If you can't make it in on your own, they'll come get you. :/

Why do I keep forgetting to buy a snow shovel?! :wah: Digging the car out with a regular shovel is back-breaking work. Wish me luck!

[Commander Wallace]

A funny thing happens around here every year. Around November it starts to get cold. By January it gets really cold. And this white stuff falls like magic from the sky. Then around April it all goes away. It's a mystery. The government and scientists need to look into this and do something. I've written letters but get no answers. Anybody know what's going on?

The reason your government and scientists don't answer is because you Canucks fashion the cold and snow into ice skating arenas, put a few hockey pucks in and play ice hockey with the polar bears. It's my understanding the polar bears hate to lose. :D

I think this cold and snow is a Canadian government conspiracy to get some extra ice hockey practice time in before the winter Olympics next month so the Canadian Olympic team, men's and women's, can continue beating up on everyone else.

:)

[Julhelm]

It's warm enough here in south Sweden that I can go out without a jacket on, while it snows in Texas.

[Jimbuna]

Clearly we hacked your weather.

I was waiting for that but not from you but another source :)

[Rockstar]

It's warm enough here in south Sweden that I can go out without a jacket on, while it snows in Texas.

I think its because there is a low pressure over portions of Scandinavia drawing in warmer air from the south.

https://www.weather-forecast.com/maps/Arctic?over=pressure_arrows&symbols=cities.forecast.dots&type=wind

https://www.weather-forecast.com/maps/Arctic?symbols=none&type=lapse


A few outside the science err.. I mean political dogma of man made climate change think it has much too do with Atlantic and Pacific Multidecadal Oscillations "They can also be called natural climate cycles. They have nothing to do with CO2, and everything to do with driving many of the climate features that are gleefully pointed by climate alarmists. They determine the snowstorms, heat waves, floods and droughts pointed out by the alarmists as indications of “Climate Change”."

Sorry, I couldn't resist! ;)

http://notrickszone.com/2015/04/17/amo-and-pdo-directly-affect-the-weather-co2-does-not/#sthash.Nw6O7CIe.dpbs

[Onkel Neal]

The sun is just coming up here and it looks like we've gotten about six inches of snow so far. It's tough to tell because the wind is gusting pretty hard. Some spots have drifts of twelve inches or more. Other places I can still see the grass poking through.

My wife is off today, but where I work there is no closing because of weather. If you can't make it in on your own, they'll come get you. :/

Why do I keep forgetting to buy a snow shovel?! :wah: Digging the car out with a regular shovel is back-breaking work. Wish me luck!

Wow, what do you do?

[STEED]

Come on you guys man up, you are sounding like a load of old washer women. I'm going to get Jim to put America on the program to drink more Brown Ale. :D

[vienna]

I was waiting for that but not from you but another source :)

Preferably an "unnamed source"?...









<O>

[em2nought]

Took me awhile to figure out how to make my air conditioners heat setting work. LOL The global warming in Central Florida was only down to 32 Fahrenheit this morning. :D

[Jeff-Groves]

The sun is just coming up here and it looks like we've gotten about six inches of snow so far. It's tough to tell because the wind is gusting pretty hard. Some spots have drifts of twelve inches or more. Other places I can still see the grass poking through.

My wife is off today, but where I work there is no closing because of weather. If you can't make it in on your own, they'll come get you. :/

Why do I keep forgetting to buy a snow shovel?! :wah: Digging the car out with a regular shovel is back-breaking work. Wish me luck!

BWAAA Ha HA HA!
Glad I didn't have to go back to Norfolk this week!
Crew set pics of the place and I told them..........
"Suck it up ButterCup!"
:D

[Sean C]

Come on you guys man up, you are sounding like a load of old washer women. I'm going to get Jim to put America on the program to drink more Brown Ale. :D

:salute: Yes sir! :up: Skipped the shoveling, got in the Challenger, inched forward and then gunned it in reverse and plowed through the driveway. Did my job and my bosses job (who called out because all he had was a truck and couldn't make it?! :nope:). Filled up the tank and bought some groceries on the way home.

I'm off tomorrow, and although I won't be drinking Brown Ale, there's a six pack of Paulaner with my name on it in the fridge. :Kaleun_Cheers:

Can I keep my man card for now? :D

[August]

Had to run the snow blower over the driveway a couple of times today. First pass around noontime at the height of the storm took off a good foot of fluffy snow. By the time I finished where I started had built up another 3 inches. I went out again was the storm was tapering off and blew off another 8 inches or so. Snow has finally stopped but the winds are gusting pretty hard.

[Dowly]

Could use some cold over here, it has been a very poopy winter so far. Quite a bit of snow this year, but the temperature keeps hovering at the -1C - +1C range making especially sidewalks very slippery.

[Reece]

42C (107.6F) here tomorrow!!:dead:

[ikalugin]

Discord bot tells me that the weather outside is:
Mostly Cloudy, 29F (-2C) (271.15K) / feels like 20F (-7C) (266.15K) | High: 32F (0C) | Low: 28F (-2C) | Humidity: 90% | Wind: N @ 9.31mph (15km/h) | 0% chance of precipitation (Moscow, Russia (RU))

[Onkel Neal]

Not too bad for Moscow. It's warming back up here, finally.

[Sean C]

Forecast here for this morning: -1°F / -18°C. Brrrr. :eek:

[Rockstar]

https://youtu.be/i6zaVYWLTkU

https://youtu.be/5W3_OPllU3U

https://youtu.be/4gwokoZhv0A

[Rockstar]

climatedepot.com/2018/01/04/al-gore-bitter-cold-is-exactly-what-we-should-expect-from-the-climate-crisis/

Its called climate crisis now. And warming means bitter cold. Thank you algore :roll:

[Dowly]

We already have a thread for that nonsense, Rockstar.

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/DAhCN8m.jpg

[STEED]

:salute: Yes sir! :up: Skipped the shoveling, got in the Challenger, inched forward and then gunned it in reverse and plowed through the driveway. Did my job and my bosses job (who called out because all he had was a truck and couldn't make it?! :nope:). Filled up the tank and bought some groceries on the way home.

I'm off tomorrow, and although I won't be drinking Brown Ale, there's a six pack of Paulaner with my name on it in the fridge. :Kaleun_Cheers:

Can I keep my man card for now? :D

Yes as long as you try brown ale and spread the word...Man up America and stop acting like a load of washer women. :)

[STEED]

Take a tip from smart cat..

https://media.makeameme.org/created/winter-time-clear.jpg

[mapuc]

I know we have an another thread about Global Warming

I'm thinking if all these extremely weather we have is because of this Global warming or it's something that occur now and then.

Markus

[Rockstar]

There is no doubt in my mind that like other planets in our solar system earth has warmed and cooled throughout its life. We have a truck load of data to support that. The argument today is not whether if its warming or cooling but rather if man is the cause of the current 1970's 'global cooling' -> 1980's 'global warming', -> 1990's 'climate change' soon to be -> 2020 'climate disruption' trend.

Personally once politicians became involved I pretty much quit listening to the its all mans fault, CO2, cows farts and were going to burn in ten years scenario. I prefer to look around and I find myself reading about climate science sans politics. I think what we are witnessing is a naturally occurring phenomena on an ever changing planet.

But those who want to think it's mans carbon footprint which is the cause for things heating up or for last weeks record cold temperatures I'm not gonna loose any sleep over it. Someone says they walked outside in a lite jacket during the winter and want to say its because of a warming effect from greenhouse gases, have at it. I can read a barometric map and see a low pressure circulating warm air from Africa as the cause. These days I view man made global warming believers like I do those gullible kooks who still think the earth is flat.

[ikalugin]

Our cats actually enjoyed going out in winter.

[u crank]

Dang it's cold here in Stratford, PEI.

-20°C with wind gusting at 50 km/h gives a wind chill of -33°C/ -27F°.

https://i.imgur.com/DKKvxIG.png

[Spoon 11th]

Ice road truckers season 12 will include few extra episodes from Texas and Florida.

[Onkel Neal]

Haha, thankfully, I no longer have to drive in the frozen north. :Kaleun_Cheers:

[mako88sb]

Snow in the Sahara for the 2nd year in a row:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/01/07/cold-snap-brings-snowfall-to-the-sahara-desert-for-the-second-winter-in-a-row/

[Platapus]

We had a heat wave today. Temps shot up all the way to 24 degrees.

Shorts and t-shirt weather

[Rockstar]

Temps for us are going from record cold to seasonal norms tomorrow, FINALLY! Only problem we had was a frozen water supply line. Nothing 75,000 btu of hot force air couldn't fix.

http://www.lewistool.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/kerosene_turbo_heaters_100000.jpg

[Kapitan]

Just came back from Toronto Ontario to the UK, with the windchill where I live out there its been below -25c since Christmas with a all time low of -35c and 2ft snow

[Dowly]

HA-HA-HA! Good one Russia! Could you stop now... :shifty:
https://i.imgur.com/6sKNM4F.gif