[dragnet2]

The midwest can expect more snowless blizzards

[cripplecreek]

The definition of a blizzard doesn't have anything to do with the amount of snow. A blizzard is primarily a winter wind event.

Officially, the National Weather Service defines a blizzard as a severe snowstorm characterized by strong winds causing blowing snow that results in low visibilities. The difference between a blizzard and a snowstorm is the strength of the wind, not the amount of snow. To be a blizzard, a snow storm must have sustained winds or frequent gusts that are greater than or equal to 56 km/h (35 mph) with blowing or drifting snow which reduces visibility to 400 meters or a quarter mile or less and must last for a prolonged period of time — typically three hours or more.

I think we ended up getting less than an inch of snow the day I took this last week.

[West Texas Chuck]

"The midwest can expect more snowless blizzards"

Yeah ... I'll bet a truck with a plow on it will get you a free cup of coffee in Amarillo right now ;)

[Tea Party Terrorist]

Just like how the SF paper reported, in the same story, how global warming was going to cause droughts and floods in California.