Posted on 11/28/2006 10:18:12 PM PST by george76
Environment Canada says such low temperatures unusual for this time of year.
The arctic deep freeze trapping Calgary is on track to break a 110-year-old weather record today, but the bitter cold is expected to ease in the coming days.
With a forecast low of -31C today, Calgary could break the -27C record set on this day in 1896.
But factoring in the wind chill, it will feel even colder to people who have to brave the elements, said Environment Canada meteorologist Ross Macdonald.
It's even been too frosty to ski, with Canada Olympic Park shutting the hill yesterday in the name of safety.
Spokesman Chris Dornan said, to his knowledge, it's the first year the weather has forced a November closure.
"It's normally in January or February,"
(Excerpt) Read more at calsun.canoe.ca ...
Good time for AL Gore to have another Global Warming Conference.
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Sounds liek you could use a little global warming.
" With a forecast low of -31C today, Calgary could break the -27C record set on this day in 1896. "
Yikes !
The punchline is later on as he is shivering under a newspaper when a couple of unruly teens start harassing him. They tell him people are going to see him getting his ass beat on You Tube whereby he has a shining moment and a twinkle in his eye he declares emphatically, I was the man that invented You Tube.
yikes is right! i am in Kelowna British Columbia and right now it is -24C/-11F i don't want to go outside right now. lol
We could break a record tonight here in Washington. I guess we are a victim of global warming too. :)
Too cold for me.
Be safe.
Great! First bell bottoms now some good, old '70s style Global Cooling!
You should be dancing yeah!
whatcha doing in Kelowna BC?...live there?
On the other hand, it's been unseasonably warm the past few days in New York City, with high temperatures near 60. We'll be in the cold weather by the end of the week.
Weather happens.
stupid weather
PING!
It's freaking cold this AM at the north end of Kootenay Lake, I can tell you!
I'm throwing birchwood in the heater - usuually the wife likes to save that stuff for January.
Yep. I live in Calgary and it's been awful. Fortunately, I work at home and so haven't had to go out much.
But we'll have a Chinook in a couple of days and then it'll be heaven in the foothills again.
Cheers
Jim
Once again Kalispell, MT upholds its reputation as the banana belt. It's only 7°F (-14°C) here!
Isn't it interesting how the more they scream about 'global worming' the colder our climate gets, and the colder it gets, the louder they scream?
BTTT
I don't recall that ever happening in November.
Was Al Gore in Seattle recently? Everywhere he goes, preaching the gospel of global warming, cold weather follows.
I guess Jenny will really be cool today? :o)
meanehile, in East Tennessee it will be a balmy 70 today.
I hope the cold in canada will kill the mosquitos.
Fairly nippy here in N California, not as cold as yesterday and what it may be tonight.
Getting brr reports from friends in Floriduh this past week.
You just don't get it... Global Warming explains *everything* even cooling.</s>
We are having a very unusual cold snap here in Seattle as well, especially for this time of year. We get our snow in January and February.
This one is a little weird - Not just the snow, but the cold that stayed with it.
GLOBAL WARMING CAUSING EXTREME COLD!
I believe that for tonight 90% of California has a freeze warning in effect.
Well, since nearly every potential senerio is predicted by and/or attributed to "global warming", that really means nothing. Using GW kook advocate's reasoning, it is impossible for them to be incorrect, regardless of what happens in the future.
Winter sucks. I live in the desert for a reason.
That's due to the fact that the political left, and envirals in particular, hold to the false premise that since they're yelling the loudest, that must mean they're correct.
My five-year-old daughter possesses more rationale.
"....unexpected, record cold-snaps only makes you look bad. They're predicted to happen by the "Global Warning Model/Theory"."
Haven't seen it lately, so I think that I've put my copy in the file drawer with the Spin Machine and my collection of rubber rulers.
What you apparently don't realize is that the 'theory' has had to be adjusted so much due to the current 36 year long cooling trend that just about everything is 'predicted.'
The idea that these plentiful cold records are unexpected is the real laugh. The number of new low records each year exceeds the new highs by five or six to one. It's particularly exaggerated in the southern hemisphere, where the growth of ice flows in Antarctica has resulted in massive icebergs that are threatening shipping near New Zealand.
Not here in Michigan. When I was a kid, it was wintertime by Thanksgiving. Now, we don't really get snow until after Christmas and the grass is still green at Thanksgiving. Our leaves used to fall in late September - now they fall in late October. I had to mow my lawn last week in Detroit. That was certainly not the case 20 or 30 years ago - I would have been shoveling snow.
There is no question that the climate has gotten warmer over the past 30 years - the debate is to WHY.
I believe (as most rational persons do) that it is merely another warming cycle in the natural order of things. But to say it isn't getting warmer is refusing to see reality. Of course there are always little ups and downs from year to year - but over the past 30 years it has definitely gotten warmer in Michigan.
I have told my wife, who is off work today. This afternoon will not be a Honey Do This session.
The time will be spent in freeze proofing our various and many faucets and yard irrigation stuff above ground or exposed.
In the early 90's or late 80's we had a pipe break in our car port at Christmas-New Year time. That was a lot of fun. Several neighbor's water main valves froze and burst. They were on vacation and I was able to shut down all but 3. It took a call to the mayor to get a water dept guy out to help shut off those 3. He had to heat the valve with a blow torch and it still took both of us to turn the valve with a two man stand up wrench.
It was a return to a cold and frozen hell for the neighbors. They had no water, and we had a power outage with no heat except stoves. Most were very grateful with what I did.
A vile liberal neighbor tried to turn me into the water dept for shutting off his water. He was told by the dept and Mayor that I saved his house and thousands of $'s on his water bill. He never said thank you. His wife apologized for his behavior for years, even after he went to liberal hell.
LOL! I started out yesterday in shorts, figuring that it would warm up as the sun rose. In the few minutes that it took to drive to the county offices in Martinez, my windshield started to collect ice as I drove, with a clear sky! - That's what I call Global Warming.
It may be getting warmer for your area, but mostly it is markedly cooler across the country.
You're arguing a straw man off of the reports from news articles where the people writing the news are moronic alarmists who really don't understand what they're saying.
The idea of extreme weather patterns, including extreme and unseasonable cold, has been a part of the theory of global warming since day 1. The fluidic nature of the atmosphere dictates it.
With that in mind, the only true indicator of Global WarmingTM is beach-front real estate prices. Global WarmingTM predicts that ocean levels will rise and flood coastal cities. If this was imminent then you'd see a huge sell-off of beach-front property at bargain basement prices, which isn't happening. In fact, the trend seems to be the exact opposite.
The beauty (or evil) of the Global Warming crowd's argument is that all extremes are attributable to Global Warming. Record cold - global warming. Record heat - global warming. Drought - global warming. Record rain/floods - global warming. Many hurricanes - global warming. No hurricanes - global warming. To them, every extreme is created by global warming disruption. And, of course, global warming is created by the capitalist MAN!
Yesterday, we had heavy frost all over.
It was not there at dawn and came later. We had the same over all effect that happened to your windshield while driving.
I suggest that you get some sleep, and then your rage may abate enough to cut off the ALL-CAPS liberal hysteria.
"That's due to the fact that the political left, and envirals in particular, hold to the false premise that since they're yelling the loudest, that must mean they're correct.
My five-year-old daughter possesses more rationale."
Our five year old grandson is starting realized that his screaming doesn't change reality and may cause him to lose out re activities due to his behavior. His older and wiser 7 year old sister keeps telling him that screaming and yelling doesn't work with their parents or grand parents.
I don't mean this week or next week - I mean in general. The entire country has gotten warmer. Certain trees and animals that only live in a narrow climate band have all moved north. We now have trees in Southern Michigan that only grew in Southern Ohio & Indiana 30 years ago. Trees that grew in mid Michigan are now growing in the Upper Peninsula. Growing seasons have lengthened all over the country. I have seen palm trees growing farther north than they ever have before.
Individual winters or summers will always fluctuate up and down - but the 30 year trend has definitely gotten warmer.
It is 29 at the Bender Estate here in the South of Eureka and white as snow as far as the eye can see. It was so cold Mrs Bender put the garbage can out so she wouldn't have to listen to me whine.
The weather service says it's 38? on Humboldt Bay and we are only 3 miles south as the Sea Gulls fly...
No, it really isn't getting warmer. the record use of heating fuels over tha last 15 years alone points that out nicely.
>>My five-year-old daughter possesses more rationale.<<
Wait until she becomes a teenager, that's when the real fun starts, Joe. I learned about that stuff, two full courses. It was a blast.
My brainy little gals went right off the deep end. Sure glad to see that they are starting to straighten out and fly right again.
I'm just outside of Lumby and I awoke to -29. Brrrrrrrr. I hoped I left all that behind me when I moved from Prince George. I think it is following me.
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