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Cold weather in USA
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hahahaha...maybe LOL is more propriate
Boboro
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Didn't happen.
grgfinney
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When we get too much snow for the 4x4 it is time to break out our snowmobiles now that is fun cruising down the trails @ 130 mph
chillardbee
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sounds good. But I hope the snow is still white...and not yellow. yellow snow out side has a good chance of NOT tasting like banana!
skychaser
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http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=weather&id=9355714
WASHINGTON -- Feeling chilly? Here's cold comfort: You could be in East Antarctica which new data says set a record for "soul-crushing" cold.
Try 135.8 degrees Fahrenheit below zero; that's 93.2 degrees below zero Celsius, which sounds only slightly toastier. Better yet, don't try it. That's so cold scientists say it hurts to breathe.
A new look at NASA satellite data revealed that Earth set a new record for coldest temperature recorded. It happened in August 2010 when it hit -135.8 degrees. Then on July 31 of this year, it came close again: -135.3 degrees.
The old record had been -128.6 degrees, which is -89.2 degrees Celsius.
Ice scientist Ted Scambos at the National Snow and Ice Data Center said the new record is "50 degrees colder than anything that has ever been seen in Alaska or Siberia or certainly North Dakota."
"It's more like you'd see on Mars on a nice summer day in the poles," Scambos said, from the American Geophysical Union scientific meeting in San Francisco Monday, where he announced the data. "I'm confident that these pockets are the coldest places on Earth."
However, it won't be in the Guinness Book of World Records because these were satellite measured, not from thermometers, Scambos said.
"Thank God, I don't know how exactly it feels," Scambos said. But he said scientists do routinely make naked 100 degree below zero dashes outside in the South Pole, so people can survive that temperature for about three minutes.
Most of the time researchers need to breathe through a snorkel that brings air into the coat through a sleeve and warms it up "so you don't inhale by accident" the cold air, Scambos said.
On Monday, the coldest U.S. temperature was a relatively balmy 27 degrees below zero Fahrenheit in Yellowstone, Wyo., said Jeff Masters, meteorology director of the private firm Weather Underground.
"If you want soul-crushing cold, you really have to go overseas," Scambos said in a phone interview. "It's just a whole other level of cold because on that cold plateau, conditions are perfect."
Scambos said the air is dry, the ground chilly, the skies cloudless and cold air swoops down off a dome and gets trapped in a chilly lower spot "hugging the surface and sliding around."
Just because one spot on Earth has set records for cold that has little to do with global warming because it is one spot in one place, said Waleed Abdalati, an ice scientist at the University of Colorado and NASA's former chief scientist. Both Abdalati, who wasn't part of the measurement team, and Scambos said this is likely an unusual random reading in a place that hasn't been measured much before and could have been colder or hotter in the past and we wouldn't know.
"It does speak to the range of conditions on this Earth, some of which we haven't been able to observe," Abdalati said.
WASHINGTON -- Feeling chilly? Here's cold comfort: You could be in East Antarctica which new data says set a record for "soul-crushing" cold.
Try 135.8 degrees Fahrenheit below zero; that's 93.2 degrees below zero Celsius, which sounds only slightly toastier. Better yet, don't try it. That's so cold scientists say it hurts to breathe.
A new look at NASA satellite data revealed that Earth set a new record for coldest temperature recorded. It happened in August 2010 when it hit -135.8 degrees. Then on July 31 of this year, it came close again: -135.3 degrees.
The old record had been -128.6 degrees, which is -89.2 degrees Celsius.
Ice scientist Ted Scambos at the National Snow and Ice Data Center said the new record is "50 degrees colder than anything that has ever been seen in Alaska or Siberia or certainly North Dakota."
"It's more like you'd see on Mars on a nice summer day in the poles," Scambos said, from the American Geophysical Union scientific meeting in San Francisco Monday, where he announced the data. "I'm confident that these pockets are the coldest places on Earth."
However, it won't be in the Guinness Book of World Records because these were satellite measured, not from thermometers, Scambos said.
"Thank God, I don't know how exactly it feels," Scambos said. But he said scientists do routinely make naked 100 degree below zero dashes outside in the South Pole, so people can survive that temperature for about three minutes.
Most of the time researchers need to breathe through a snorkel that brings air into the coat through a sleeve and warms it up "so you don't inhale by accident" the cold air, Scambos said.
On Monday, the coldest U.S. temperature was a relatively balmy 27 degrees below zero Fahrenheit in Yellowstone, Wyo., said Jeff Masters, meteorology director of the private firm Weather Underground.
"If you want soul-crushing cold, you really have to go overseas," Scambos said in a phone interview. "It's just a whole other level of cold because on that cold plateau, conditions are perfect."
Scambos said the air is dry, the ground chilly, the skies cloudless and cold air swoops down off a dome and gets trapped in a chilly lower spot "hugging the surface and sliding around."
Just because one spot on Earth has set records for cold that has little to do with global warming because it is one spot in one place, said Waleed Abdalati, an ice scientist at the University of Colorado and NASA's former chief scientist. Both Abdalati, who wasn't part of the measurement team, and Scambos said this is likely an unusual random reading in a place that hasn't been measured much before and could have been colder or hotter in the past and we wouldn't know.
"It does speak to the range of conditions on this Earth, some of which we haven't been able to observe," Abdalati said.
winston-smoker
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Started snowing at 8 AM in the NYC metropolitan area this morning. Three to six inches predicted before changing to rain tomorrow morning. Some areas of the northeast are going to get much higher accumulations. North-central MA and southern NH, where my relatives live, is supposed to get 18+ inches, last I heard.
longhairedmountianman
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Sadly the weather here in Montana is warming up, last week it was around 0 F and below, but this week its around 30 F and above. Looks like I'll have to find a chest freezer to keep making apple jack.
bonehead
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on december 20th my son should show up at bradley airport from johnston atoll. he was praying to come home to snow. i was praying for nicer weather. with the snow comeing down now and what is expected he will be happy. i can't wait to see him and him to get his winter wishes but i don't wan't to clean up this s##t. i guess if i was on tropical islands for the last 7 months i wouldn't mind snow. i can only hope he dosen't grab some snowmobiles and head north as soon as he gets home because the snow mite melt. after being in maine for four years of college he want's to see his friends. a short visit would be nice.
winston-smoker
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O, you're just full of good news!
By the way, the weekend snow storm dumped "only" 9 inches on Fitchburg, Mass. according to my uncle -- that's only half of the accumulation that was projected before the storm.
Brown Thumb
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We only got 8 in. And it was heavy snow. Sucks to clear out the house with a 2000 ft driveway and I cannot plow it due to my wife will kill me if I get rocks in the grass. I have to use my small tractor.
then I proceed over to the shop and clear another road with 10 houses on it which I own the road, easement for them.
a whole day wasted for chit that will melt.
Now another 3 to 6 inches coming tonight . WTF was I thinking when I bought, built these places. I am too old for this crap.
then I proceed over to the shop and clear another road with 10 houses on it which I own the road, easement for them.
a whole day wasted for chit that will melt.
Now another 3 to 6 inches coming tonight . WTF was I thinking when I bought, built these places. I am too old for this crap.
Boboro
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Onley a few more years till it will almost never snow there. The planit is warmin at a rapid pace.
winston-smoker
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We got 3 or 4 inches on Saturday, with a change to rain around midnight. By morning, a slushy mess; by Sunday evening, anything that hadn't been shoveled was turning into ice. And it's not even officially winter yet! At least I can look forward to my retirement in Puerto Rico ... "only" 16 years left to go.
Boboro
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We may hit 70 later this week.
Boboro
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The ice caps on Mt. Hey yall watch this will melt.
winston-smoker
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leverhead
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Rub it in, why don't you!
On Friday, it may only get up 78 F here. I do miss New England so!
winston-smoker
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Well, I guess I asked to have the salt rubbed into the wound. LOL. I don't really mind the cold much, but I can do without the snow and ice. Where in New England were you from?
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FALaholic
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Its 61oF here, right now, and I'm freezing my butt off.
Next year I'll be sure to switch my blood to 20W-50, cause 5W-10 ain't cutting it with this weather.
Next year I'll be sure to switch my blood to 20W-50, cause 5W-10 ain't cutting it with this weather.
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