Seattle - Flirts With Record Low Temps

zeestephen | 19 April 2008

[zeestephen]

The low temperature at SeaTac Airport last night was 34 degrees. The record low for this date was 33 degrees, set in 1961. The forecast high today is 46 degrees. The lowest high temperature for this date at SeaTac was 47 degrees, set in 1975. The Puget Sound region, especially north of Seattle, had 2-6 inches of snow, with some eastern areas reporting 10 inches. Although NOAA reports the fourth lowest March snow cover in North America, snow cover in the Cascades has been well above average since November.

[SkyDancer]

Ok, so what has Seattle’s snow fall average been for April??

[Bernard]

Sounds like the convergence zone is now where the cold weather converges. Hope the special people at Pioneer Square have extra newspapers and refrigerator boxes to bundle up in.

[upchuck]

Quick, quick, Seattle needs an emergency supply of CO₂.

Please go to your nearest CO₂ bank and give as much CO₂ as you can. Designate you donation for the Seattle Warming Effort.

Mother Earth thanks you.

[kingattax]

flirting with record low temps ? quick, call algore on the hotline !!!

[RightWhale]

Spring seems to be somewhat delayed this year. It was delayed last year so long that the growing season didn’t happen until it was half over. Maybe five weeks of growing.

[Just mythoughts]

It is good to know algore has stopped global warming. Where I am in Missouri it is a dreary damp cold day as well but the sun is to come out tomorrow.

Seattle - Flirts With Record Low Temps when I read these words I wondered what kind of dress Seattle had on and if it was holding some specific type of alcoholic beverage to demonstrate it was flirting????

[goodnesswins]

Yes...it’s snowing right now.....this has been a crazy spring.....er....long winter.

[stubernx98]

Well, as I look out the window here in Seattle, it is snowing. I am dong my part by burning all my trash including plastic. We need to get more CO2 out there. My trees love it. Besides with the price of corn going up up up, we need more CO2 so it will grow faster.

Also we need to burn the virgin forests so we can release more CO2.

That will happen anyway thanks to the Environmentalists. Notice how the Politicians, Bureaucrats and Media have morphed from Global Warming to “Climate Change”.

[investigateworld]

I have about 1&1/2 inches of global warming on the ground now and more coming. Yesterday was beautiful... so I made plans.

[goodnesswins]

Where in Oregon are you?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Good point about rhe corn. We need to really burn, baby burn to get more CO2.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Global warming.

[Bommer]

And if it wasn’t for this damn global warming, Seattlewould have been a huge glacier! We would have had a area to ship polar bears to. There is an abundant amount of liberals there for them to eat. Would have been a prefect place to relocate them. DAMN YOU GLOBAL WARMING!!!

[bigfootbob]

I have an inch of snow on the ground as I type this. It was in the high 60’s last Saturday.

[cherry]

I have a skiff of new snow but hopefully will melt...planted my Walla Wallas yesterday....we shall see...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

My daughter in Eugene, OR woke up this morning to several inches of snow on the ground. She was so upset because last weekend was gorgeous.

Schwarzenegger just finished up at the governors’ meeting where apparently he achieved some consensus to get states to take action against global warming. The only possible action is to raise energy prices by 2x, 3x or more to reduce consumption, ending our way of life. All for no reason whatsoever.

[bray]

Saw snowflakes this morning in Peoples Republic of Portland. If this Global Warming doesn’t stop we’re going to Freeze to death.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[386wt]

You just wait until the middle of July. Those GW supporters wil get their revenge. /s

[NurdlyPeon]

Looking at about an inch of “global warming” myself (here in sunny Seattle).

[Random Access]

Well, down in South Sound I have 2 to 3 inches of Global Warming covering my daffodils.

[Jeff Chandler]

Also we need to burn the virgin forests so we can release more CO2.

And whales. Burn the whales.

[investigateworld]

Approximately halfway between Portland and the coast - mountains - trees - rain and inbreds ;^)

...but still better than Cali

[Snickering Hound]

[BullDog108]

I woke up to 25 degrees and a dusting of snow this morning in Spokompton, Washington. Global Warming indeed . . .

[Don W]

I’m 80 miles NW of you, and the evil white stuff is coming down like there’s no tomorrow. Almost an inch on the ground, and there is no sign the snow is going to let up.

I’ve lost my tomatoes, and I doubt the basil will survive this onslaught of cold. Perhaps the peas will make it.

Anthropogenic global warming my hairy patoot.

[alloysteel]

Isn’t this right in the middle of the belt of the “global-warming True Believers”?

This must be a time to test their faith and tenacity, and for the doubters among their number to begin to feel just a little braver and outspoken. The more reason to hew ever more closely to the official line. This is just the forces that control the climate changes pausing briefly before the next steep climb in planetary temperatures.

“Oh, NO! We’re all gonna DIE!”

Well, maybe, some day, eventually.

But probably not from “runaway global warming”.

[Gator113]

I’m in Port Angeles, Washington. That’s about 3 hours west of Seattle.

I spent about 3 hours mowing our lawns last weekend, roughed out where we’re going to put in a vegetable garden and started on my yearly tan. (I should have been fishing)

This morning there was about 2” of snow covering the property, but most of that has melted away. We are going to spend the afternoon playing with our dog along one of our lakes.

From time to time we have had snow in April, but hail is what we get more often at this time of year....and rain, lot’s and lot’s of rain. ;>)

Please, send us all of the CO2 that you can spare and I will send to you fresh rain water.

[Inspectorette]

We were going to drive up to Port Angeles today (a six-hour drive from home), spend the night, then take the morning ferry over to Victoria for a couple of days.

There's snow on the Coast Range here in Oregon, not to mention driving up 101 along the Hood Canal.

We've postponed until the first weekend in June - hopefully we won't have to worry about snow by then ;-)

[munin]

Here in Vernon B C it is almost rain now, but this morning we had five inches of white stuff on the ground.
I w’ll have to call algore to see if I can get a refound on my carbon offset contributions

[luckymom]

Reporting in from Deception Pass... It was snowing beautifully this morning, but has stopped for now. Nothing stuck here near the water, but on the hills it did. I read it might not go away for a couple days... Just think, if it weren’t for GW, we would be digging ourselves out from under 8 feet of snow right now- NOT!

[BunnySlippers]

Gorbal Warming ...

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Drove to get coffee this morning in Bellevue, WA. Its snow mixed with rain right now. Brrrrrr.......
The cascades are getting dumped on right now. I’m planning on going snowboarding tomorrow.

But I don’t know what the problem is. I moved here in 1992 and remember through the 90’s, we always had rainy, cold springs. Sometimes it didn’t get sunny till July.
Seems just that the past 5-7 years, we had these very warm springs with lots of sun. I think many got spoiled by this.

[rahbert]

I’m 7 miles east of the Hobart store on 208th/364th Av.

3 inches and still falling, elev here is 1700ft.

[bigfootbob]

I have potatoes in, planted peas, lettuce and carrots last Sunday! I put in my onion sets three weeks ago, they should be OK.

I have a couple of perennial geraniums flopping hard and I’ve covered my Arisaema kishidae and Arisaema urishima which were up. The kishidae has even produced a spadix already!

I’m also concerned about my Galaxy Magnolia, the blooms don’t like this weather.

[PugetSoundSoldier]

Usually zero!

Last night I went to sleep at midnight, when there was 4 inches on the deck rail (this is in Edmonds, about 6 miles north of Seattle). Still snowing now, but it’s melting too - it is 36 degrees after all (wow, so balmy).

Apparently last weekend it was 78 degrees and beautifully sunny (I was over in China and Singapore - didn’t get to see it). Which was unusually hot for April.

As we say around here, if you don’t like the weather just wait for 5 minutes!

[Sir_Ed]

It’s supposed to snow tonight in the mountains surrounding Grants Pass.

It’s weird...the Rogue Valley had an 80 degree day, a few 70+ degree days, and then it got COLD.

I just thank God I didn’t plant my tomatoes yet!

Ed

[Gator113]

By June you should be fine....more than fine! Enjoy your trip and drive careful.

I can see Victoria from our house ( it’s 19 miles across the water), it’s still there, but the water is quite choppy at the moment.

We spent a few days there last September and then a month in the San Juan Islands on our boat...it’s a very beautiful place.

As long as you are coming to Port Angeles, if you have the time, you might want to consider a drive up to Hurricane Ridge..... http://www.terragalleria.com/parks/np.olympic.5.html

BTW..I was born and raised in Oregon and I love every mile of the Oregon coast, especially Pacific City.

[Publius]

We got about an inch in Shoreline last night. It’s sleeting right now.

[MD_Willington_1976]

Nothing yet in the Palouse area here on the East side... probably get some later

[MrPiper]

You guys up north are suppose to be cold, quit your complaining.

I'm in south Alabama on the Gulf Of Mexico and had frost last week, 45 degrees this morning after a front came though. (needed the rain)

[MrPiper]

Oh, and it did set a record for that date! Record cold in south Alabama last week. I’m going for a drive while eating beans to make some more CO2 !

[mikrofon]

It’s 86 degrees in the Buffalo area right now — that’s really putting a dent in our ever-present 10-ft snowpack.....

(We’ll point the fans westward today. ;)

[VanShuyten]

"Although NOAA reports the fourth lowest March snow cover in North America..."

Didn't I read on FR somewhere that this year's continental snow cover was one of the largest on record? And now they say March has one of the smallest? Must've had quite a heat spell in February.

[MNJohnnie]

Although NOAA reports the fourth lowest March snow cover in North America

NOAA is fudging the data. The weather records do not at all validate their contentions. Seem their PR campaign for the myth of Global Warming is more important to NOAA then objective gathering of the data.

[sionnsar]

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FReepmail sionnsar if you want on or off this ping list.

Ping sionnsar if you see a Washington state related thread.

[RainMan]

I have a kool-aid drinker in my office that I tweak incessantly on this ... especially since he likes to think of himself as a player in the local scene of movers and shakers. He is obviously pained by the fact that he cannot win the debate. Here is my most recent foray with him.

I think you are unreasoning on this and believe you think the same of me. There are some crazy things going on like the ethanol issue in Iowa but I put my bottom line on the main stream science as I understand it. I believe that deniers are deluded, they believe that I (and thousands of dedicated, respected scientists) are deluded. The truth will out in the end and you, or I, will not change that one iota. And many more people will die as a result of these changes, most likely in our lifetimes. I think the die off will be roughly equivalent to the Black Death but that’s just a personal calculation. Anyway, I’ll take what little action I can in terms of personal behavior which is all too little and all too hard to take given the size of the problem as I understand them. It is all too easy to be a hypocrite on this – to know yet not to do. I often fail to follow thru. Strangely it feels very similar to the problem some Christians have with sin. At least you don’t believe it (human caused climate change) so it is much easier for you to not do without guilt. You do what you feel is best for you and yours. In the long run Mother Nature will let us know what she thinks load and clear. I suspect she doesn’t really care about us at all and will lower the boom in a big way – but I only know what I read and hear from those dedicated to studying the problem. You are right in that they might have a motive to spin the results but then it wouldn’t really be science would it? (By the way – the President of The World Bank is not a denier. I know that on only 2 degrees of separation within the last 48 hours).

‘dark recesses of Al Gore’s mind’ – do you really, truly believe he has that much control over others? Wow, a very dangerous man.

Over, and OUT on this conversation.

From: Rainman
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 8:02 AM
To: Liberati
Subject: I saw this on the London Times Online and thought you might be interested

World Bank president calls for action as food prices cause rioting

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article3742650.ece

From the end of the story, two paragraphs that illustrate the true cost of addressing the false science of global warming … real people are dying … today, because we are trying to fix a problem that was manufactured in the dark recesses of Al Gore’s mind.

One of the main factors behind the surge in prices is the increased use of crops for biofuels as an alternative energy source in developed countries.

Almost all of the rise in global corn production from 2004 to 2007 went to biofuels in the United States. As of tomorrow, all petrol and diesel sold in Britain will have to contain at least 2.5 per cent biofuel from crops.

[NavyCanDo]

Just before leaving for our 2-week family vacation to Maui I filmed our deck with 2” of ice pellets on it, and written in it “Maui or Bust” - a great lead into our vacation video. Little did I know that when we returned from Maui on Saturday that snow and the cold would still be the hot news topic in the Seattle area. Wow! Take me back to Maui - please.