Map shows snow covering nearly all of northern hemishere

[Serpo]

A new satellite map by the government agency NOAA shows the extent of the snow blanketing a vast area from the west coast of Canada to eastern China

The shroud of white stretches down from Alaska and sweeps through the Midwest and along to the Eastern seaboard. The bitter cold has reached as far as Texas and northern Mexico where in Ciudad Juarez temperatures today were expected to dip to minus 15C.

In the U.S. tens of millions of people chose to stay at home rather than venture out. In Chicago, 20in of snow fell leading to authorities closing schools for the first time in 12 years. The newspaper for Tulsa, Okalahoma, was unable to publish its print edition for the first time in more than a century.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353073/Winter-storm-Map-shows-Northern-Hemisphere-covered-snow-ice.html

[General of Darkness]

Fricken DOOM.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/02/02/article-0-0D05489E000005DC-703_964x481.jpg

[Plastic]

I hav'nt seen this much snow since I was a kid in the 70's, of course back then the amount of snow we have received here was standard fare. People are just freaking out because they are no longer used to goodly amounts of frozen precipitation.

[Ash_Williams]

I love it. I spent most of the weekend trying out different 4x4's at my buddy's farm. End result: 95 Suburban owned the competition (silverado, pathfinder, explorer, 4runner, and surprisingly even the new jeep with the lockers.)

[cthulu]

Global warming!

[Horn]

Thanks to John and Susan Townley for finding this article about the research of the late Rhodes Fairbridge of the effects of Jupiter on our earthly climate. It has been known for some time that Jupiter has an effect on sunspots which correlate to changes in our climate, but no one really understood why. It turns out the answer may be in the relationship between Jupiter and Saturn.

At times, the sun is at the solar system's centre of gravity. Most often, this is not the case-- the orbit of the planets will align planets to one side or another of the sun. Jupiter, the planet with by far the largest mass, most influences the solar system's centre of gravity. When Uranus, Neptune and especially Saturn -- the next largest planet -- join Jupiter on one side of the solar system, the solar system's centre of gravity shifts well beyond the sun.

The sun's own orbit, he found, has eight characteristic patterns, all determined by Jupiter's position relative to Saturn, with the other planets playing much lesser roles. Some of these eight have orderly orbits, smooth and near-circular. During such orbits, solar activity is high and Earth heats up. Some of the eight orbits are chaotic, taking a loop-the-loop path. These orbits correspond to quiet times for the sun [solar minimum], and cool periods on Earth. Every 179 years or so, the sun embarks on a new cycle of orbits. One of the cooler periods in recent centuries was the Little Ice Age of the 17th century, when the Thames River in London froze over each winter. The next cool period, if the pattern holds, began in 1996, with the effects to be felt starting in 2010. Some predict three decades of severe cold


Read more: http://blog.beliefnet.com/astrologicalmusings/2007/11/jupitersaturn-sunspot-cycles-a.html#ixzz1DEaIFZee

[Horn]

OK, so ice age alert...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv69AHkYXWY

[chad]

pole shift doom! i'll be living in the carribbean soon baby!

[Horn]

pole shift doom! i'll be living in the carribbean soon baby!


But the polar ice cap will be following shortly behind you!!!

[G2Rad]

Global warming!


Stop global whining

[chad]

pole shift doom! i'll be living in the carribbean soon baby!


But the polar ice cap will be following shortly behind you!!!


well that sucks.

[Horn]

Global warming!


Stop global whining



Interestingly enough, we may have been on the verge of a new ice age, until it was averted by recent warming. So, a little climate change was not a bad ...


http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/public-professor/arguments-against-global-warming-hardly-based-on-fact-2511.html

[G2Rad]

Global warming!

Stop global whining

Interestingly enough, we may have been on the verge of a new ice age, until it was averted by recent warming. So, a little climate change was not a bad ...http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/public-professor/arguments-against-global-warming-hardly-based-on-fact-2511.html


I will get overdone yelped the steak convinced there is no cook in the kitchen

[milehi]

Winter is a no show here. I should have several feet of snow on the ground with temps in the 20-30 degree range. Instead, it's 65-70 degrees out, my fruit trees are budding, daffodills are coming up and the ladybugs are swarming.

[Plastic]

Winter is a no show here. I should have several feet of snow on the ground with temps in the 20-30 degree range. Instead, it's 65-70 degrees out, my fruit trees are budding, daffodills are coming up and the ladybugs are swarming.



It is colder than a witches tit here....

[Horn]

Winter is a no show here. I should have several feet of snow on the ground with temps in the 20-30 degree range. Instead, it's 65-70 degrees out, my fruit trees are budding, daffodills are coming up and the ladybugs are swarming.


http://icons-pe.wunderground.com/data/640x480/2xus_st_anim.gif

[oldmansmith]

We did get up above freezing, all the way to 34 whoopee! Down to zero tonight. I love winter but am getting mighty sick of shoveling snow and hauling wood.

[Horn]

Look at that pincer formation in Northern Texas from my post below.

Your could drive your car from 0-60 in 3/4s a day...