Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/07/2008 2:29:21 PM PST by justa-hairyape
Srinagar/Mumbai, Feb 7: Jammu and Kashmir has been experiencing heavy snowfall for the past three days, disrupting normal life in the entire Valley.
According to news reports, hundreds of vehicles carrying essential commodities and passengers are stranded along the 300-km-long Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, causing shortage of essential commodities in the Valley.
All flights to and from Srinagar remain disrupted due to heavy accumulation of snow and poor visibility at the Srinagar airport.
The severe cold wave griping north India seems to have influenced the weather in Mumbai which is also experiencing cold wave like conditions almost after four decades.
Mercury levels in Mumbai have dipped and the temperature has been hovering around 9 -10 degrees Celsius over the past two days forcing the people to wear woollens and huddle around bon fires.
Youngsters said that they have never seen temperatures dipping to such levels in their life time.
According to the Met office, the temperature of 9.4 degree Celsius recorded on Wednesday was the lowest in the past 58 years.
Copyright Asian News International
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We must stop this Global Warming now!!!! Ooops. Uh, Global cooling?
Its Climate Change now. It is getting beyond surreal watching the Global Socialists try to stop Global Warming, while the serfs are huddling around bonfires to stay warm.
Al Gore was RIGHT!
It's starting to work!
Just keep those carbon offsets trading, boys and girls!
Women and children hardest hit. News at 10.
At least they have plenty of soft, luxurious sweaters.
It's a huge feedback system with a plenty of room for variations that eventually correct itself.
It was actually warm for much longer than usual in high-elevation areas of mountains during the early winter this year. It has been much wetter during mid-winter, though (more snow). ...great for back country snowboarding.
If you look at climate history going back 10's of thousands of years, we have normally been in an Ice Age. Hopefully that is not the 'correct state'.
The planet has been rapidly cooling now for the past 6 months. Hopefully it is just a short term change.
Yeah, it’s been snowing alot this year on the Upper Left Coast. I think it would be a good idea to air drop Al Gore into Kashmir and force him to make a snowman. Just a thought.
An unexpected heavy snowfall in the Ladakh region of India may mean the death of around 90,000 Pashmina goats.
These goats are facing a shortage of food, according to Tsering Dorjay, a government official in Ladakh. These goats typically survive on the grass in Ladakh, but with the temperatures at -29 degrees Fahrenheit and such heavy snowfall, they are not expected to survive much longer.
These goats have a warm, thick, fleece coat which provides fine wool for Pashmina shawls which are exported worldwide. These shawls have become increasingly popular since the ban on shahtoosh, fine wool derived from the hair of an endangered Tibetan antelope.
Woolens and bonfires 'to keep warm' at 10C (50F) tee-shirt weather?!? Just toss another dundicut into the curry.
Not tee-shirt weather if you have never in your entire life ever experienced that level of cold before. It is record cold for the region. IE - Higher up in the mountains goats are dieing with - 29 F temps. Gee man, have at least a little concern for all the lost goats. Just think how the shepherd's are feeling losing so many of their 'best friends' :>
- 29 F temps & 50F is an 80 degree difference. 50 is only 10 to 15 less than we keep our house. 50, I stll wer shorts por light pants, and a T to work outside.
-29 is deadly. So is 90.
Really!
Make a snowman? Hell, if he were to be made to stand outside long enough he could be the snowman.
We have had night time temps here in So Cal this winter that have been brutal for us Southern Californians (40’s). If I was living outside in that, with the clothes that I normally have, I would be ‘huddling around a bonfire’ too :> 50 wont kill them, but it may take them some time to get used to it.
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