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Esteban Gasca of Chula Vista, Calif., takes a picture after forming the Spanish word, "amo," or "love," with rocks on a beach as clouds from a nearby cold front make their way inland on Friday in San Diego. Few people frequented the city's famous beaches as Southern California braces for a cold snap expected to drop temperatures to a six-year low.
Updated at 4:30 p.m. ET: Californians are bundling up with sweaters and gloves and stocking up on firewood as they brace for several nights of freezing temperatures.
The National Weather Service is forecasting morning frost on San Diego beaches. Big Sur, on the central coast, prepared for daytime highs almost 20 degrees below Boston's. Even the snowbird haven of Palm Springs faced the possibility of freezing temperatures at night.
In addition, San Diego zookeepers turned up the heat for chimpanzees and some farmers broke out wind machines and took other steps to protect crops from freezing.
Freeze warnings were in effect in San Diego County valleys and deserts Saturday morning with lows in the 20s and 30s, the weather service said.
In Sonoma County, homeless shelters started handing out extra warm clothes on Friday to protect people from freezing overnight temperatures.
Arizona faces its coldest night time temperature in years, threatening crops. Meanwhile, the weather is spring-like in parts of the East Coast. NBC's Kristen Dahlgren reports.
Morning temps fell into the 20s and 30s in many areas, and much lower in the mountains. A low of 12 degrees was recorded in the Big Bear mountain resort east of Los Angeles.
By midday Saturday, the temperature had warmed to the mid-50s – balmy for most everywhere else in the country but frigid in Southern California.
In an official weather advisory on Saturday, the National Weather Service wrote: "The bad news for those people who don't like cold temperatures is that any moderation in these frigid conditions is forecast to be slow heading into next week, with below-normal readings continuing."
It was, the Weather Service noted, a contradiction: The West Coast, usually mild-weathered, was uncharacteristically cool. Parts of the East Coast, by contrast, boasted spring temperatures. The Appalachians could see highs in the 60s and 70s -- at least 20 degrees above average.
'Crazy busy' at firewood store
Some customers drove more than an hour to buy firewood.
"It's crazy busy here," said Renea Teasdale, office manager at The Woodshed in Orange, south of Los Angeles.
Still, it was business as usual as much of the state contended with temperatures in the high 40s and low 50s.
"It's still sunny Southern California, and I'm going to work on my legs all year long," said Linda Zweig, a spokeswoman for the Del Mar Fairgrounds, which is hosting a 5-kilometer (about 3-mile) run north of San Diego on Sunday. The lifelong San Diego-area resident is prone to wearing two sweatshirts when the temperature drops but refuses to give up on shorts.
In the San Joaquin Valley, the heart of California's citrus production, growers prepared for another round of freezing temperatures late Friday after seeing little crop damage Thursday night.
They run wind machines and water to protect their fruit, which can raise the temperature in a grove by up to 4 degrees, said Paul Story, director of grower service at California Citrus Mutual. Existing moisture, sporadic rain and cloud cover can also help keep in heat.
Andy Coker, an assistant manager for the Limoneria Company farm in Santa Paula, a leading grower of avocados, lemons and oranges, told NBC Bay Area that he would be pulling “all nighters, all weekend probably for the next four or five days,“ trying to keep hundreds of acres of avocado trees warm.
Snow shut a 40-mile stretch of a major highway north of Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon, forcing hundreds of truckers to spend the cold night in their rigs and severing a key link between the Central Valley and Los Angeles.
The California Highway Patrol reopened the Grapevine segment of Interstate 5 some 17 hours later.
After a cold blast in the southwestern U.S., the forecast predicts warmer weather in the coming week. Meanwhile, the Midwest remains entrenched in a deep freeze. The Weather Channel's Greg Forbes reports.
Associated Press writers Gosia Wozniacki in Fresno and Chris Carlson in Orange contributed to this report. NBC Bay Area also contributed reporting.
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California is beautiful . I lived there for a while. I like Florida beaches better for many reasons but Hawaii has them both beat as far as weather goes.
I loved Hawaii. Florida is the 2nd best state . I would give California a runner up position even with our bad humidly here in the love bug state.
OK Lets start hearing it from the anti global warming folks.
And you will, Mary.
People seem to think that climate change is a leisurely stroll towards wearing Bermuda shorts in February. The real truth is that the incredible amount of excess energy our atmosphere has accumulated will create many, many years of violent, extreme weather events.
It's called 'weirding'. And anyone who thinks it isn't happening should know that extreme weather events now affect 50 to 100 times more landmass per year than they did just 33 years ago.
And it's only going to get worse.
P-R - good to see you! How are you faring?
And I gotta put California as No.1, but that is my home state; retiredcoastguard; so, I get to make it No.1! Florida is beautiful but the ocean waves leave a lot to be desired. So, Hawai'i gets my No. 2 because I'm a displaced surfer girl.
And we do get freezes in orange groves in California; we also get cold temps in Palm Springs - it's a desert - hot during the day, freezing at night, like Vegas.
RBW,
Good to 'see' you, too. We're doing well, although still cleaning up from Sandy. I'm off to the City this morning to do some volunteer work.
Take care, my friend.
This is a cold front that is pretty much affecting the entire Western U.S.; not just California. I live in Tucson, Arizona, and it is 25 degrees this morning here. They had better watch out for their palm trees in California. In 2011 we had a few days where it got down to only 18 degrees, and a lot of our palm trees died. They just can't stand the cold.
Mary you are the first person to bring up global warming. You mean second person to ....
zinga...the squid got ya Mary.
In the Central Valley and up here in Nor Cal this is not so odd. But for LA and Sand Diego yeah weird. California is huge so we have all types of weather. From cold to desert hot. To very dense fog where you cant see two feet in front of you.
The citrus growers have the freezing temps almost every year. Just depends on how low the temps go. 25 degrees or lower is when it gets real bad.
Do they insulate the homes there in California.,you can cover the hundred and one windows you put in the homes there with plastic, there's nothing like a big oak log for the wood stove but I don't think you'll find much oak there either even if you had a wood stove, I don't care for forced air heat to much dust and cleaning needed and it makes me cough, the best heat is water baseboard, heat the water and regulate each room separately. there is a lot of sun in California solar would be the way to go I don't have that luxury.A Minnesotan.
Now, now, Joey...lets not try to act rational and inject common sense into this.
Lusitania no not one Oak tree in the whole State. Ok im kidding
We have tons of oak trees. And even fireplaces and insulation. And yes fireplace inserts and even free standing wood stoves. The best wood out here even better than oak Is tamarack. A pine that burns very hot.
GM Tramp I'am just going with the flow. Actually I think it's EL NENUOO. Or how ever you spell that.
Serves them right. I get a bill chill every time I hear about anything coming out of California.
@joeyfromcali. Get a good look at your Oaks. They won't be there for ever. That Chinese beatle has killed most of them here in Arkansas and they're comming your way. They can't stop them. It's a real shame. Enjoy them while you can.
joeyfromcali
Seriously on the beach" I could maybe see that in the mountains, I get three logger cords red oak for five hundred, what do the tree huggers let you have there..
"The California Highway Patrol reopened the Grapevine segment of Interstate 5 some 17 hours later"
CHP shuts down for a little snow the other states drive in it CA drivers need to carry chains and learn how to drive in snow. The other states must laugh at us. A little snow or rain and drivers freak out. Geez
If the global warming nutbags can claim that every single weather related incident is due to global warming, then why can't people claim that this shows that they are just nutbags?
Donna, have you ever driven in CA? Trust me, these people should not be allowed to drive 365days of the year, nevermind with snow on the ground.
I guess he77 really is freezing over!
It must be George Bush's fault. Darn him!
"temeratures as low as 12 degrees"
Well, it's 10 below where I'm sitting in CA.
BTW, it's all heading east, enjoy!
whipsplash,
"Well, it's 10 below where I'm sitting in CA."
Are you in the mountains?
It's -19 here this morning plus a big blizzard for the past 2 days. Good day for snowmobiling
I have lived in NJ ( it's a crime about the shore ) and NH ( very cold water ) and have visited Florida ( both coasts and i prefer the west coast ). I also lived in southern California, have never been to Hawaii, so California gets my #1 vote. The state has the best of ALL worlds.... warm, cold, beaches, mountains, deserts!! You can go snow skiing in the morning and swimming in late afternoon early evening!! Florida has the BIG bugs and humidity!! I prefer the dry weather. The weather is ever changing, that's mother nature for you......
Thank you whipslash....we shall
It's 24 here in Valley Springs CA, but that is not unusual for January, we have had temps in the teens many times over the years in the winter. But, cold in San Diego is quite uncommon. That means it is freezing in Mexico, too. But, don't worry, our weather always heads East, so you can count on it heading your way. Darn jet stream! @ Donna, the reason CHP requires chains is that we have Mountains, and in the Mountains you can slide off a cliff! A little different on a major truck route than snow on flat land.
@ Mickey,
Yes, Tahoe.
whipslash,
Ah, lovely spot! I used to go swimming in lake Tahoe when I was a kid. Some of my family still live there. Yes, it get cold there; damn cold.
I live in So. California and I cant remember it going into the 20s overnight where I live. Before all the Al Gore wanna be's start chirping in about Global Warming etc., understand that the outer planets and our sun couldnt be affected by anything we do here on earth. The outer planets were pushed out of their orbits starting a few years ago, the sun has been going crazy with solar flares that dont seem to stop. This can only point to ONE THING. A large body (planet) has moved into our solar system and is close enough to disrupt the normal orbits of planets and cause the sun to react. This is PLanet X, or Nibaru, whatever you want to call it. Nothing else in Physics can explain it. Be prepared to bug out to higher ground. It may not happen for months or even years but it is going to happen. Why you ask? Because its already happened before. Noahs flood was the latest time, that was about about 7,000 years ago. It is also written in Islam and other religions. The Chinese have a written history of 10,000 years, 7000 years ago they wrote of large scale flooding around that same time. It was found in the Sumerian tablets that were found. We are living in the time when Planet X should reappear. "Not one stone will be found left on top of another." Think about that. 90% of the worlds populations live within 50 miles of an ocean. Be ready to leave.
"See," a conservative says, "there is no global warming. It's freezing."
When temperature goes high, then a conservative says, 'it's climate going through NATURAL cycles, now we are in a warmer part of the cycle.'
Getmadstaymad,
"A large body (planet) has moved into our solar system and is close enough to disrupt the normal orbits of planets and cause the sun to react."
That's some interesting "science" you have there. I have never heard of a planet moving from one solar system into another. How did it accomplish that, and which solar system was it originally from? It must be one fast moving planet to travel billions of light years from one solar system to another and defy all the laws of physics in the process. I think you have been reading too much bad science fiction.
Yes I'm freezing....I live North of San Diego....Frost at the coast....Yup saw it on my neighbors roof this morning....And my poor husband had to go to work in it.
Meantime, here in Columbus, Ohio - the tulips are coming up (about 2 inches out of the ground) and trees are budding. It's 62 degrees here today. Trust me, this is weird weather.
And a liberal nutcase like yourself says, "this heat wave is clearly evidence of global warming" and then the same liberal nutbag as yourself says, "this cold front is clearly evidence of global warming"
If everything is evidence of global warming to you nutbag sycophants, then how can anything ever disprove your agenda?
i certainly wish F.R. would mend her fences, her pet pig is loose again.
Using isolated events like this to prove or disprove global warming definitely makes a person a nutbag. You'll see both 'sides' of the global warming argument do the same thing. The legitimate scientific argument for global warming has nothing to do with these specific isolated events.
Mickey... our solar system is not a singular system. There is two that revolve with eachother and at the closest point to one another there is a planet that will do a figure eight into our system... look it up do the research. This is the planet that causes real big changes. Its happened before and will happen again. It should be very soon but you keep poking fun;)
I was at Disneyland yesterday.... a sweatshirt, jeans and a scarf was all I needed.
Growing up in Southern California, I must say we are a bit whimpy when it comes to sold weather. It is a high of 55 during the day and we go into panic mode. We scream that it is too cold!! Hehe.... people that live in Montana must be having a good laugh.
:)
dp101,
"our solar system is not a singular system. There is two that revolve with eachother and at the closest point to one another there is a planet that will do a figure eight into our system... look it up do the research."
I'm just going by the science I was taught in high school and college, and I learned nothing about a dual solar system there. I won't say you are wrong. I'm an old man, and I realize that science does not deal in absolute truth. Scientific truths do change from time to time, but I have never heard of any such changes. There are dual stars that revolve about each other, but ours is not one of them. You might want to double check the validity of your sources. Their credentials matter.
Hey Pigpy it is called weather get use to it. I lived through nearly 68 years and to my amazement almost no two years are alike. So from my absolutely and truly unofficial data I can conclude that the weather is a mess.
The media is making this bigger than it really is. Sure it's cold. But we were in CO last week. Now that's cold. Drove through AZ and NM too. A very gusty 32 with snow at the Grand Canyon.
And honestly, having been born and raised in San Diego, I remember it getting this cold or colder during the winter. Recent years have been warmer and warmer. But there were many days in the 1970's and 80's when there was some serious frost on the windows and once it snowed.
Now watch, in a week or two we'll hit 80. We typically have a heat wave in Jan.
retiredcoastguard "California is beautiful . I lived there for a while. I like Florida beaches better for many reasons but Hawaii has them both beat as far as weather goes."
I've been to all of them, and I agree that Hawaii is the best in the USA, but I prefer Costa Rica because it's just as beautiful, but far more affordable - that's why we're moving there next month.
Florida is great during the Winter, but miserable in the Summer - way too hot and humid.
Right now I'm in So. California (Mountains) and it's 22 degrees outside and we have 6" of snow.
Brrrrrrrrrrrr.
Good to see you drop in, P-R, but I'll save my comments for the NV section. As usual we have people bad-mouthing climate change and California - a double double for them, I'm sure.
Do you have any proof at all that the climate should not change? Lets see... um no. In fact over millions of years the climate has changed dramatically on every region of this planet many times. But now it is not supposed to remain exactly the same for thousands of years and it must be deniers causing it to change. Lets face it, climate change became the buzzword because the term global warming proved inaccurate and Al Gore is a big fat idiot. You can hardly prove the weather next week but you believe you have this figured out. Sure it is changing, yes! But prove what is doing it! And if you really feel you are correct about it being only humans why don't you go after India and China? Have you seen the air pollution there? Have you?
It snowed on Moonstone Beach in '62. That's in Cambria Ca. It also snowed on Pismo Beach in '72 or so don't remember the exact year. My main water pipe froze in '91. I live in Nipomo,Ca. just north of Santa Maria. So what's the big deal? It gets cold in the winter.
It goes like this. Ice caps melt (oh, that just happened out of the blue), frigid water sluices into the ocean currents (especially along the west coast as the arctic current tracks southward close to shore), and you get a climate change effect connected to a slower, longer trend of global warming. So, yes, global warming does include climate change that makes certain areas colder than usual TEMPORARILY! There will be a refrigeration effect of sorts due to this cooler ice cap water that has melted circulating in the the ocean currents. One could argue that Sandy took on the velocity it did in the northeast because of the cooler ice cap water in the north Atlantic currents. Unstable weather patterns is a presage to global temperatures rising inexorably after the cold energy of the melted ice caps gradually dissipates, and the refrigeration effect exists no more. Make sense?
cornbreadbbqred,
"Unstable weather patterns is a presage to global temperatures rising"
The fluctuation between extremes that accompany climate change is what Physicist Retired calls "weirding".
I hope it doesn't hinder porn production.
I currently live in Isan, Thailand...
The last week several provinces have declared 'Cold Weather Emergencies' in northern & northeast Thailand. I'm sitting in 70 F and its was 55 this morning...
India and China are now experiencing temperatures and snow levels that have not been reached in 50+years(China). Second straight winter in China with record breaking snow/temperatures and ice closing normally clear harbors...
Last week the UK had snow in almost the entire country. This makes the third year straight, that the UK has had extensive COLD and snow. 30Nov2010 extreme southern UK -3.3C with snow...
Last March the northern Hemisphere saw one of the most extensive snow coverages on record according to NASA & NOAA...
Last winter BOTH the Arctic & Antarctic experienced exreme cold temperatures that generated Ozone Holes @ BOTH Poles...
While the Arctic reached record minimum sea ice coverage this summer, it has returned @ record rates. During Mar 2012 the Arctic ice coverage was @ record highs of sea ice coverage. The Antarctic has set higher ice quantities and lower temperatures for the last 33+years, almost EVERY Year...
One event is weather, even one year can be IGNORED. But the string of record lows and snow falls is now heading for its THIRD Year, in many places around the World...
As you sit in your concrete/asphalt covered heat bubbles with your A/C running, YES man can change LOCAL weather. But do not expect the WORLD to follow. Currently Oceans cover 73%, land 27%, with urban areas making up less than 2% of this Worlds surface. Two & a half million years ago it was, oceans 95+%, land less than 5% and there was almost ZERO snow coverage...
According to the Antarctic & Greenland 'ice cores' the World temperature averages have been dropping for 12,000+years. After the last Man induced heat spike... Ha! Ha!
"weirding" - Another scientific term from the AGW crowd...
Good. I hope everyone in that screwed up state freezes to death. With any luck at all, San Franciso and San Diego and L.A. will reach minus 80 degrees celsius, and stay there for a week.
weirding present participle of weird
Verb
Induce a sense of disbelief or alienation in someone.
People's misconception of California's weather always seems to shock people when a weather event common like this one happens.
No not the people, the alarmist media however...well it was the only chance they had to use their standard weekend global warming article.
Most of the weather articles I read here don't even mention global warming, climate change, whatever. They simply report the weather. It's the agenda-driven posters who continually bring it up, whether it's an issue in that particular instance or not.
(Kind of like Scooter, who is a very determined denier and posts excessively on the subject.)
How true AG, generally in response,mostly in humor. but dont you don't find it a bit unusual this type article is here every weekend young lady? the part i found unusual this time ( so far) is the lack of their normal insertions you mentioned. guess the writer was having a bad day.
Maybe because they just hate being laughed at.
Scooter: To be honest, I hadn't noticed. There's a dearth of new articles on the weekends anyway and what you get tends not to be very serious. I have noticed they go out of their way not to mention global warming most of the time though, unless the article is actually about climate change and not just some weather event.
(Much appreciate "young" lady!)
California is a huge state, let alone the variations in elevation. The weather California gets is not unlike the regional differences seen from Virginia to Georgia (coast to mountains), as it's comparable to the north-south length of California as well as the east-west distance coast to inland.
As for Southern California, it's pretty typical that a winter will have temps into the upper 30s...a hard freeze ever decade/generation or so isn't jaw-dropping stuff.
agreed to a point AG. NOTHING happens on weekends....unless of course its driven by agendas.
( complements are wonderful things, they cost the giver nothing and the receiver is always happy )
first iv'e lived in calif. for over fifty years so i think i got a legit opinion. first the pacific ocean is in a cooling trend so we have had a couple really nice not to hot summers. second it frigging freezes every single year and i'm twenty miles from the ocean. usually just a few days a year , sometimes more sometimes less but it freezes. it can freeze from late oct to mid may . although dec , jan and feb of course are most predominant. now on to the east coast where the alantic is in warming trend we are seeing hotter summers and hurricanes will be more frequent. its called the planet earth and it has its own cycles devoid of al gore and his global warming is all mans fault entourage.
For Christ sake.....Man the fuk up, people.
How common is this one?
for a weekend article.....?............VERY.
Boo hoo :(
Blame it on Global Freezing
the "Blame Game" on weather ....ok I'll play.
I'm going with Space aliens....
gm Tramp
I'll take Mongolian Ice Worms.
Flying Spaghetti Monster, and a couple of gigatons of carbon.
I live in South Lake Tahoe, and just came in from outside where right now at 5:30 am it is -4 outside, Love it!
I'm from South shore Tahoe also, and came from the L.A. area back in the 90's. The people of southern Cali have no idea what cold is until you've lived up here or in Alaska!
I've wintered in Fairbanks and also in Shelby, Montana. I'll take Alaska over northern Montana any time. Although, it's hilarious to turn on the TV and listen to the weather man say, "It's fourteen below zero in Fairbanks, but don't let that warm weather fool ya."
I know, I know- all our pissing and moaning about the cold and- yikes-snow! is amusing to people who live with it 7-8 months of the year, but I worry about the citrus, strawberries and other crops that are endangered by a hard frost and/or prolonged cold snap. To say nothing of the homeless snowbirds (a lot of homeless migrate here to overwinter) Time to take extra blankets, coats and other winter wear to the distribution centers.
I know other places get colder, but I have been in 45 below F, and did not see above -20 for over 2 weeks. -12 for a day ain't squat.
Anyone want to take bets that citrus prices skyrocket now? Even if it's not a huge impact to the crops the grocery industry will MAKE it so. Anyone else noticing significant increases in their grocery bill this year (and getting much less product for the money)?
those damn greedy "big citrus" company's , ceo's and the govt crop subsidies
Just bought 6 red grapefruits yesterday for $1.69. Can't beat that. I think I'll go get some more now that you mentioned it. It was near 60 degrees here in Chicago yesterday and we have broke the snow-drought record twice this year. Last year was the warmest winter ever, we are going to shatter that record too.
George, it sounds like you use your head. yet live in Chicago?...well guess that explains the "lonesome "part.
( dont get your pantys in a knot chitown just messing around)
In weather such as this, it is a great shame an embarrassment that here in California,the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration does not honor its commitment to veterans: http://www.aclu-sc.org/va-facility-in-west-los-angeles-abandons-homeless-veterans-lawsuit-challenges-vas-misuse-of-land-given-to-house-injured-vets/
All that land, nearly 400 acres, was SPECIFICALLY donated by the family that owned it for veterans' use... but if veterans are caught staying overnight anywhere on the facility, they can be (and have been) arrested for trespassing. So we turn our vets out into the streets instead, rather than provide a stable housing environment/location or camping location from which they can try and reboot their lives.
stand up
I would think that could be handled in short order by gathering troops from the VFW, VA, American Legion, and word of mouth to gather in mass and go ask them and their representatives ....why?...call the news people first. make certain Fox is on hand as the rest will then have to come.
This has been news here for years. Media pressure is doing nothing. The "pending" lawsuit has been and will be going on for years.
so i take it this is a govt agency? and they are in charge of the land?
That was tried in 1932 by the Bonus Expeditionary Force. General Douglas MacArthur and Majors Patton and Eisenhower broke it up at gunpoint .... 55 veterans injured and 135 arrested.
GM Bill
before mass media why not USE the lib media as they attempt to use the "thinking public" ( if it exists anymore that is)
If you use a crappy tool, yer gonna get crap on ya
They are not interested in nor equipped for using the thinking public. It's too small an audience.
just a thought. Hate to see vets getting the short end ya know. you would think guys our age would be use to it by now, but i guess the "never surrender" goes deep.
The media isn't the problem. Lay off the liberal bashing for a minute...
The problem here is good old GOVERNMENT GREED. The V.A. doesn't want to put the time, effort and money into using the land for its intended purposes... even though they could trade the income garnered from the leased areas of the land (to Brentwood, to the Marriott, etc.) as income to support such veterans housing. But they would rather simply scoop in the rent money for other purposes. They don't want to open up and refurbish the abandoned buildings on the property and set up a system to allow homeless veterans to transition back into regular society, or at the very least simply have a place to live.
Why not? Selfishness? Too much "work"? Too bad! When they accepted the donated land, they were supposed to put it towards veterans' use. The V.A. has reneged on that promise.
In fact, there is only ONE SINGLE BUILDING on the property (http://articles.latimes.com/2012/dec/23/local/la-me-va-homeless-20121223) that is supposed to be for 65 chronically homeless veterans. What this particular article doesn't say is that this has been the plan for the past NINE YEARS. ONE BUILDING. So clearly, there's no WAY they're going to get 55 units up and running anytime within the next ten to fifteen years!
stand up
im on your side here.But out of state-rs cant do much. organising locals can. ANYONE anywhere, in charge of anything, can be fired if enough pressure is applied.
Couldn't someone approach the family that donated it and try and get them to file suit to force the VA to use the land for what they wanted it to be used for?
Of course if they just did it for a tax write off they might not give a hoot.
Welcome to Wisconsin!
On the bright side, the vegan Californians get a chance to rethink their stance on the issues of fur and meat...
wonder if they know which one is for which purpose. geuss we will find out.
IA. Scooter ever hear of a fur burger LMAO
yep joey, but they are becoming pretty darn scarce.
its only the quality ones that are scarce; get some beer goggles
Amazing, I lived in the L.A. area for years, then moved to...gasp...Indiana. While we are having 60 degree weather during January here in Indiana, CA. is having our freezing temps. LoL Please feel free to keep the cooler weather. I'm enjoying the warmth whiles it lasts.
Does I-465 make ya homesick? just wondered.
The cold is coming your way later in the week, according to the weather channel.
rex,
That storm anyway. as for normal temps here we go back tonight he should by sunday night. Glad to have a couple days of melt tough, ground was to hard to do much good for moisture content. but i have a big dog and a small yard so....yeah i liked the melting snow cleanup if ya get my drift.
Here in Iowa, and throughout this region of the Midwest, have developed a word for this phenomenon we call it ...WINTER.
Can you imagine that? Cold weather and snow during the winter. I absolutely would not have believed it. That is SERIOUS national news.
Yep, doesn't happen every year, but not all that unusual when the Jet Stream is this far South. This is not caused by global warming as some would have you believe.
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GSSLOOPS/wcir.html
Three Things You Need That You Don't Think You Need:
1. Umbrella.
2. Coin change.
3. A sweater.
==================
The weather can be hard-
When you are caught off guard.
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1.Long Johns.
2.Cell phone.
3.three big shaggy dogs.
At least where I live now,the winters may not be as pleasant as they were when I lived in SoCal but there aren't as many rats in the race up here.
It's going to be warmer here where I live in the frozen north then it is in Ca. I used to live in north San Diego county and only had a few nights where it dipped into the thirties but nothing like they're getting now....just a sign of the times....or Ca. slipped a little further north.....
reporters are soooooooooooo silly
California has every temp. depending on where you are in the state
I have been in a snowflurry in August at some of our higher altitudes
big range of latitude and altitude in this state
so why is it you only send the nasty weather east?
quit bogarting all the warmth and Sunshine already.
my only worry is that the sudden warm up after this freeze may wiggle the san andreas fault
Yep, them rocks get real brittle when cold. <:)
just how deep do you believe a frost goes?
It's Global Warming!!!!!!!
Isn't everything?
Global warming advocates say that unusual weather, even cold weather, is due to "weirding". - I say it is due to the cyclonic storm (counter-clockwise rotating in the northern hemisphere, and clockwise rotating in the southern hemisphere), fluctuations of the middle-latitudes, which are NORMAL.
The fervor, the constant drum-beat of the progressive liberal news media, and the tyranny of big government democrats AND republicans, all are evidence that global warming is a political phenomenon, and not a scientific fact.
There was more global warming in a 100 year span of the middle ages than there is today. Greenland was actually green in that period, and streets in Scotland still named "vine" today were so named because wine grapes could be grown there. In modern times, even in 2013, you cannot grow wine grapes in any part of Scotland.
Brenda, how does any of those facts help push an agenda? Seriously, unless you are going to make up whatever you want and pretend that every time the temperature changes it is due to global warming, then just keep it to yourself, the left doesnt want to hear from people like you dammit.
And stop using science and history to disprove desires and emotion, its so...not liberal of you.
I will be even more non-liberal and mention the age of the dinosaurs when the 90% of the planet earth was tropical, when vast tropical forests flourished with so much plant life that vast layers of organic deposits were laid down upon the earth's surface and which are found today in layers of coal and pockets of crude oil and natural gas. - Ironic isn't it? - That the energy resources left by an amazing and real global warming event so long ago, is causing such controversy today?
Dude, did you read "Liberals Guide to Debating" again?
SayNo...example of a weird liberal going postal.
And here I sit in Michigan begging for snow and it's 50 degrees...
its comin and ya know it.
Good news is that this storm...if it dont break up....will head east bringing much needed rain / snow.
Oh my this global warming is really taking its toll now. And the Gerbal flu is very serious stuff this year to.
Soon to be hit by the Big One far greater than the USGS ever thought possible.
GOD is pissed, look out!!!!
looks like 12/21/12 came a little later...brace yourselves americans, with your greed for more, bigger and better than ther rest of the world this is what you have created for the rest of the world. so stop complaining about global warming and do something about it. clean up your country with the waste you generated each year.
You might talk to the leaders of China and India, among other nations. They are causing most current pollution and CO2 production.
Sajata, i agree....
I love to help clean up the country Sujata, why just this morning i noticed a big mac wrapper out by the curb, now as i live next to a busy street mind you, this is no big problem I have gotten use to it and have developed a weekly or so routine to deal with just such an emergency. Luckily therefor I know EXACTLY how to respond...first I fire up my gas powered lawn mower and turn it into small pieces, then use my gas powered leaf blower to spread it out some, then fire up my roto tiller and plow it under to decompose and help the environment. then hop in my 4x4 1 ton 4 wheel drive dually club cab pickup and drive to the local home depot a mere 30 miles away and get some seed to replace what I tilled under. then fire up the tiller again and sow in all the new seed. then of course ...as its at the far end of my property,... i fire up my gas powered water transport pump and give it a drink. then of course i have to run back to the depot and get some plastic to cover it in case of a freeze. then out comes the chainsaw to cut down a 45 foot oak tree cut a a small branch and take it into my 35 X 35 fully heated wood-shop and after utilising several different 440 volt CNC Machines , i cut and shape stakes to stake it down with. then fire up a gas heater to keep the seed warm. Then its back to the left over tree, fire up the cat dozer to push it in a pile, soak it down good with about 50 gallons of diesel fuel and light it. Of course the fire depart ALWAYS gets called to put out the 5 alarm fire. but as i always keep a permit handy, they generally just kick back in my now erected and heated yard tent and watch the fire with me. course i need to keep all the stuff running a few days until the grass seed sets. but by god its worth the effort. i did after all get rid of that wrapper ..!!!
damn litterbugs.
GM, IA!
Looks like you're havin' some fun on here today!
hi neg,
trying to bout to get off and go do a couple things though while the weather is on my side.
( probably start with that wrapper. But dang it at least i am helping the planet and reducing waste)
I'm headin' out to the beer and smoke shop to stock up for the week. LATER!
Actually there's more to California than "Southern" California. Believe it or not, most of the state is north of the "Grapevine."
Too bad for you that you guys can't secede from the south,NorCal is a great place.
Global
climate change is more accurate. Southern California gets cold in the winter.
Frost is not unheard of and it snows in the mountains every year.
The
last time it snowed in Port Hueneme CA was January 1942.
So
this is still normal for that area. What is not is the warm winter Chicago has
had so far.
Winter has a long time to go Michael...the long term averages haven't changed much.
-4 and overcast in Denver at 9 AM, might see some light snow by game time. This large cold air mass should be moving slowing eastward as the week progresses. Hope the Midwest gets some good snow out of this system. It took awhile, but WINTER finally got here.
That's why I left Denver. Cold in winter and very hot in summer. Not to mention all the narrow minded grumps there. I think it's the altitude.