Ohmigod. CNN just said another 20 inch snowstorm will hit DC tomorrow.

[Freeper]

Faygo Kid  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Feb-08-10 07:02 PM
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Ohmigod. CNN just said another 20 inch snowstorm will hit DC tomorrow.
   
I just made it home for the first time since Friday. It's awful out there on Georgia Avenue; nowhere to put the snow. I am not sure what to say. As a transplanted Michigander, I know snow. But I have never in my life seen anything like this.

Stay strong for us, my fellow DUers.

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Faygo Kid  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Feb-08-10 07:24 PM
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10. Another example of strange weather - that's global warming.
   
Global warming does not mean a consistent pattern of warming; it means a disruption of consistent weather patterns. Like this one.

But as an intelligent DUer who doesn't consider Rush a scientist, you knew that.

Right?

Algore isn't a scientist either but you knew that right?

fortyfeetunder  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Feb-09-10 09:56 AM
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36. Meanwhile, at the Olympic sites in Vancouver, BC, Canada...
   
http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Snow-an-Olympic-prob...

"VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Sunny skies and unseasonably mild temperatures Monday continued to delight visitors to the Canadian coast and confound organizers trying to construct Olympic-quality courses of snow and ice on Cypress Mountain north of downtown.

Temperatures were in the mid-40s Monday afternoon as organizers of the Vancouver Winter Olympics prepared to open Cypress Mountain to freestyle moguls skiers who will compete there during the first weekend of the Games.

Helicopter pilots have dropped tens of thousands of cubic feet of snow on the mountain since last week in an attempt to make up for a snow base that is less than half its normal thickness and temperatures that are up to seven degrees higher than normal."

Well gee that proves global warming right there. 

[terry]

Faygo Kid  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Feb-08-10 07:24 PM
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10. Another example of strange weather - that's global warming.
   
Global warming does not mean a consistent pattern of warming; it means a disruption of consistent weather patterns. Like this one.

But as an intelligent DUer who doesn't consider Rush a scientist, you knew that.

Right?

Yea because we all know that up until people came along exhaling and farting and coming up with factories, cars and all that other bad stuff the weather always followed nice consistent patterns, never deviating, never changing, never surprising anyone.

[Freeper]

Yea because we all know that up until people came along exhaling and farting and coming up with factories, cars and all that other bad stuff the weather always followed nice consistent patterns, never deviating, never changing, never surprising anyone.

You do have a point there were no weather men in those days since the weather never changed we didn't need them. 

[jukin]

Faked data.
Original data lost.
Non-scientific papers in the IPCC report.
Computer code showing the upward FUDGE factor.
Glacier melts misrepresented.
Rain forest loss misrepresented.
1/3 of all temperature sites removed, only in the cool parts (high latitudes) of the earth.
On and on and on.

Still the brain dead believe the in AGW.

[cottondress]

I say God just wants to cover up DC until the thaw in 2012...lol

[Tantal]

More snow in the northeast? Dammit! Now the DUmmies have an actual excuse for not being out looking for work. Sure, they'll be smoking weed, eating Cheetos, and posting their idiocy at the DUmp as usual, but they'll have a legitimate excuse for the bureaucrat at the unemployment office.

[Mike220]

My mom was in DC over the weekend and got stuck there for an extra day. Managed to get out before the next round of global warming started falling.

[IassaFTots]

My stepmom lives in NOVA.  The pictures are amaaaazing. 

Fortunately, she is retired, and doesn't have to get out in it.  But she is a Mainer, so I am sure she wouldn't mind it. 

[njpines]

Wow, it snows in the Northeast in the winter -- it MUST be global warming    The dummies are such mental giants!

[The Village Idiot]

Hopefully the government will shut down and they can all stay home and let the private sector deliver their pizza.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Hopefully the government will shut down and they can all stay home and let the private sector deliver their pizza.

I'm sure it will, any significant snowfall shuts DC down for a day, these two storms are pretty much good for the entire week.  I had to report for the start of a long course at Ft. Belvoir starting in January of 96, right after a huge mid-Atlantic blizzard (I think DC got something in the neighborhood of 20", and there was nothing else coming in behind it), the entire National Capital Region (Local jargon there for all Federal offices in the DC area) was shut down for four days.

[The Village Idiot]

I'm sure it will, any significant snowfall shuts DC down for a day, these two storms are pretty much good for the entire week.  I had to report for the start of a long course at Ft. Belvoir starting in January of 96, right after a huge mid-Atlantic blizzard (I think DC got something in the neighborhood of 20", and there was nothing else coming in behind it), the entire National Capital Region (Local jargon there for all Federal offices in the DC area) was shut down for four days.

The mighty mighty unfallable government stays home while the private sector keeps on trucking. Thats says a lot.

[AllosaursRus]

Somebody shoulda told the dinosaurs it was too warm back in the day. I mean it was so warm they grew into monsters! If had been cooler they would have grown into titans, gods?

[dutch508]

Somebody shoulda told the dinosaurs it was too warm back in the day. I mean it was so warm they grew into monsters! If had been cooler they would have grown into titans, gods?

TNO- Who says they didn't?

[Specbid]

Faygo Kid  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Feb-08-10 07:24 PM
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10. Another example of strange weather - that's global warming.
   
Global warming does not mean a consistent pattern of warming; it means a disruption of consistent weather patterns. Like this one.

Not at all. This winter was predicted by NOAA. It is an El Nino year. Pretty simple.

NOAA: El Niño to Help Steer U.S. Winter Weather

October 15, 2009

El Niño in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean is expected to be a dominant climate factor that will influence the December through February winter weather in the United States, according to the 2009 Winter Outlook released today by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. Such seasonal outlooks are part of NOAA’s suite of climate services.

“We expect El Niño to strengthen and persist through the winter months, providing clues as to what the weather will be like during the period...


http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20091015_winteroutlook.html

[IassaFTots]

Not at all. This winter was predicted by NOAA. It is an El Nino year. Pretty simple.

NOAA: El Niño to Help Steer U.S. Winter Weather

October 15, 2009

El Niño in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean is expected to be a dominant climate factor that will influence the December through February winter weather in the United States, according to the 2009 Winter Outlook released today by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. Such seasonal outlooks are part of NOAA’s suite of climate services.

“We expect El Niño to strengthen and persist through the winter months, providing clues as to what the weather will be like during the period...


http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20091015_winteroutlook.html

Dude.  I have been trying to enlighten people here (where I live, here, not this forum, here) to this El Nino, and no one listens to me.  These weather patterns are very consistent with the El Nino, at least here.  I am hoping we get our wet and cool summer to go with it. 

[The Village Idiot]

TNO- Who says they didn't?

OMG "THEY" came from dinosaurs!!!!111

[Thor]

I'm kind of tired of hearing the East Coasters whine about the frikkin snow. It's WINTER!!! George Washington fought through one of the most difficult winters in his lifetime. Get over it.

[Specbid]

Dude.  I have been trying to enlighten people here (where I live, here, not this forum, here) to this El Nino, and no one listens to me.  These weather patterns are very consistent with the El Nino, at least here.  I am hoping we get our wet and cool summer to go with it. 

They can't predict major winter storms too far in advance, but this winter of much moisture and below average temps through the Mid-Atlantic(as predicted) just leads to a lot of snow.

Now, lets talk about the North Atlantic Oscillation...

[The Village Idiot]

They can't predict major winter storms too far in advance, but this winter of much moisture and below average temps through the Mid-Atlantic(as predicted) just leads to a lot of snow.
Now, lets talk about the North Atlantic Oscillation...

God (or nature) put a swamp there and its going to reassert itself from time to time. Snow melts.

[USA4ME]

Faygo Kid

Another example of strange weather - that's global warming.

No, actually it's just called strange weather.  Happens all the time.  This year we're getting an unusual amount of snow.  Talk to some of the people who have lived in this area (or any area for that matter) for 50 years and they'll tell you it happens every 20 years or so.  Same with excessive rain, or drought, or cold, or heat.  Grow up, son.

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[IassaFTots]

They can't predict major winter storms too far in advance, but this winter of much moisture and below average temps through the Mid-Atlantic(as predicted) just leads to a lot of snow.

Now, lets talk about the North Atlantic Oscillation...

Ain't that the weather doom-a-hickey climate thingy we watch to determine potential direction of hurricanes????

[Specbid]

God (or nature) put a swamp there and its going to reassert itself from time to time. Snow melts.

I just wish the shit would melt before I have to shovel it. Oh well, after reading the foolishness coming out of LVL, I promised myself I'd exercise more. 4 or 5 hours on a mexican backhoe has been good for me. 

[AllosaursRus]

I just wish the shit would melt before I have to shovel it. Oh well, after reading the foolishness coming out of LVL, I promised myself I'd exercise more. 4 or 5 hours on a mexican backhoe has been good for me. 

Be careful! Snow shoveling is responsible for more heart attacks this time of year than any other physical effort.

[Airwolf]

Back in 2004 we got hit with three snow storms that totaled over 12+ each within two weeks and I didn;t hear anyone here whine near as much as those people on the coast.