Posted on 10/13/2009 6:27:47 AM PDT by Stevenc131
Long-standing records were shattered as temperatures plummeted around North Central Washington on Sunday and into today.
The Wenatchee Valley set two record lows for Oct. 11.. 23 at Pangborn Memorial Airport, breaking the previous low of 33 set in 1990; and 25 in Wenatchee, dipping below the low of 28 set in 1931.
“It’s pretty extraordinary to break records by 10 degrees or more,” said Greg Koch, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Spokane.
Al the boring Gore says the cold is global warming.
Methinks al and all who believe global warming are just plain nuts.
It was frickin’ freezing in Seattle last evening.
My son explained the mindset of the sheeple to me.
They see and understand that GW is a hoax. But, they still think humans pollute too much, so, why not implement the GW controls?
Just imagine how could it would have been without globull warming.
likewize in woodinville...
I sure am glad I got my firewood delivere, re-split and stacked early this year. I usually wait until late October or early November, but this year I wanted it done while the weather was nice.
We’re in SW Washington, but we got hammered with multiple snowstorms here during the week before Christmas last year, and it was bad enough that we had to cancel our big family Christmas party because it was too dangerous to drive. This year there has already been snow up at the pass levels in the Cascades, and that is really unusual...
Here in NC it is not an unusual day today. It will make the mid 70’s.
But yesterday it was 20 degrees below normal. The normal high is 70.
Sunday was also below normal.
The rest of this week will see highs in the 40’s. that will be well below the 70 normal.
We always expect a day or two below normal, but what we are seeing here is a 7 day period in which only one day is normal and the other 7 days 20 to 30 degrees below normal daytime highs.
And rain every day but today.
This is what we usually see in February.
Global warming this is not.
Usually October is too hot to sit in a deer blind after 9:00 AM.
We learned years ago to contract for purchased firewood or begin to cut our own in the Spring. Every year, the firewood sellers begin to be unable to fill new orders sometime in August and the hot weather of Summer delays everyone’s cutting. This year, the Amish sawmills that supply the bulk of the oak slab and black locust logs lost their DNR contracts for rails and posts for State Parks after the Governor closed them, due to lack of funds. This put a crimp in availability of slab firewood for at least 6 weeks, until the mills found other contracts and had waste again. The wood we bring in in the Fall gets to sit and dry for a year before being used.
It sucks to run out in March with another month of cold weather ahead.
Global Warming is a B$tch.
The polar bears supposedly fighting for survival are happy.
I had a cord left from last season, and bought two more in early September. I have a small splitter and re-split everything to a good stove size, stack it and tarp it until needed. The smaller pieces burn completely and less wood is better for even heating.
We bought a brand new stove last February that’s 78% efficient and emits almost no smoke, and we heat all winter with the heat pump turned off at the breaker. I use the forced air system to distribute the heat between two zones, so the front of the house stays at 73 while the back hovers at 70. Works great, and it would cost me as much in electricity for one month to keep the house that warm with the heat pump as I spent on firewood for the whole winter.
Tell me about it, I have been trying to drown moles in my yard and left the garden hose out last week and it was frozen solid in the morning.
Our Puget Sound Energy bills show the average temperature every month as compared to the year before. For the past several years almost every month has been cooler than the same month the year before.
How much global cooling will it take before these rascals with their cherry picked data will be forced to admit that we have been in a cooling trend for the past ten years? In most places farmers, people very dependant on the weather have been noticing shorter growing seasons.
But I forgot... it is not about common sense or the observations of real folks. It is all about power, new taxes, redistributing the wealth, and left wing agendas.
I have a 4000 sq ft 2 story house with forced air heat and a Vermont woodstove in family room. I heat the whole house with the woodstove, I just turn off the heating elements of forced air and use it to circulate heat through whole house, especially if family room too warm. My air intake is in ceiling 15feet from wood stove, I think building code is 10 feet. I built house in 1993 and could not afford heat pump at time but when I have enough wood the old fashioned way works well. The last couple winters though I didn’t cut enough wood and spent a lot on presto logs.
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