East Coast ice box: coldest weather in years freezes big cities

The Washington Post ^ | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23 | Jason Samenow

[MinorityRepublican]

Along the I-95 corridor from Washington, D.C. to New York City, the mercury plunged into the single digits and teens this morning - the coldest readings witnessed in years. Factoring in a stiff wind from the northwest, wind chills tanked to near or below zero.

Washington, D.C.’s low of 15 degrees was its coldest since March 3, 2009. New York City dropped to 11 degrees and both Baltimore and Philadelphia plummeted to 12 degrees, their most frigid low temperatures since January 24, 2011.

[Patriot Babe]

Darn!! Why couldn’t it showed up during the coronation of Damien Thorn?

[freeangel]

DC?

I guess hell IS freezing over.

[V_TWIN]

Attention algore, please pick up the white courtesy phone.....hello?...hello?

[illiac]

Boo fricken’ hoo.....we’ve been at those temperatures for 1-2 weeks in the northwest (of course we aren’t a population center, I guess)....

[MichaelCorleone]

Paging Al Gore...

[Buckeye McFrog]

You get an arctic blast coming through here every now and then. It’s called Winter! 1977, Christmas ‘83, Reagan’s 2nd. Inaugural....it happens every now and then.

So, quite literally, Chill Out!

[Huebolt]

Darn!! Why couldn’t it showed up during the coronation of Damien Thorn?

DC should have gotten the weather MOSCOW did! It was about 10 feet of snow, I believe.

[Theoria]

Winter of 1779-1780: This winter was so cold that ice was piled 20 feet high along the Virginia Coast and stayed there until spring! The upper portion of the Chesapeake Bay was frozen allowing people to walk from Annapolis to Kent Island, Maryland. In March, a regiment of the Virginia Infantry marched from Falmouth to Fredericksburg. They walked across ice on the Rappahannock River which had been frozen since the previous November.

[wac3rd]

Where’s Seth “Chicken Little” Borenstein on this on Yahoo!?

[jeffc]

This is why they stopped calling it “Global Warming” and started calling it “Climate Change”.

[SampleMan]

Idiot reporter yesterday stated that, “Its unseasonably cold.” which made me laugh, given that its the middle of freakin January.

[bicyclerepair]

What, it’s 70 deg and 57% H outside right now.

Perfect day.....

[Fledermaus]

And then all those horse drawn carriages started manmade global warming!!! Or was it the Franklin Stove?

[cripplecreek]

LOL the weather is never important till it gets to the east coast.

[DickBrannigan]

Looks like I picked the right time to replace my almost 10 year old car battery.

[rrrod]

No bad feelings but I wish every single registered RAT and their families a miserable winter.......forever!

[stbdside]

Must be those sport utility stagecoaches pulled by hay guzzling horses.

[NRA1995]

Where’s a little global warming when you need it?

[Free Vulcan]

Meme shift! Extreme cold is now global warming!