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Subscribe to RSSIn the West, farmers worry about their citrus crops as temperatures dip below freezing. The National Weather Service extended its freeze warning to Tuesday. NBC's Kristen Dahlgren reports.
The weather appears to have flip-flopped this week, with a freeze descending on California and parts of the East Coast boasting uncharacteristically balmy t-shirt temperatures into the 60s.
West Coast produce farmers worried about their citrus crops as a freeze warning extended to Tuesday. Six Western states experienced record lows.
The National Weather Service said this will likely be the coldest weather of the season, with early Monday morning dipping into the mid-20s in some of the coastal valleys and on the central coast away from the beaches.
Meanwhile, nearly 100 cities on the East Coast topped record highs.
Where warm met cold, weather erupted. Heavy rains caused flooding in Indiana and a tornado destroyed a church in Kentucky. The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings for Louisiana to the Ohio Valley through Monday morning.
--Reporting by NBC's Kristen Dahlgren and Isolde Raftery.
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There's that global weather change again.
It's called winter.
Give up Jock they will not believe you too much money in selling a crisis.
Can I predict now that Summer will be hot ?
We get this every year. It is called "winter". Heck, I have even seen snow on the local mountain in OC (Saddleback Mountain). It is normal.
Dang, you're good at this, Needle!
"Where warm met cold, weather erupted."
I gotta quit doing this with Cheerios.
Tornados in January.
Hmmmmmm.
The last major global warming occurred in the 10th century AD. Unfortunately, no one recorded whether there were "weirding" effects accompanying that warming. My guess would be that there were.
I join the Polar bear club and went swimming in the East coast..The water was like Fla temp.haha
There was a study done recently using tree rings in Britain. The findings showed during the period of 200A.D. to 400A.D. to be warmer than current conditions, warm enough to allow grapes cultivation.
From 800A.D. to the 1200A.D. period Greenland was warm enough to allow the Norse to colonize.
Climate changes, then changes again ...... its just something the fickle mother of nature does and she has no real concern about it being inconvenient to anyone.
this is so strange, in Massachusetts today it was kinda warm I even went for a long walk in a shirt, I had a jacket but I had to take it off as it too warm for it. and it's only the middle of January, the heart of the winter season.
and with this quick thaw to all the ice and snow, there will not be enough stored water on top for spring and summer, making the drought will get worse.
Then they should catch the water instead of letting it run into the ocean.
The ocean has plenty of water . it doesn't need any more.
Build more reservoirs.
The bullsh*t that will result from the Southern California citrus "freeze" is that orange juice prices will still go up -- even though the Navel oranges that dominate California aren't used for juice. The cold-damaged navel oranges will be used for juice -- thereby flooding the American market and it should cause cheaper OJ prices...
BTW, this Lester Holt douchebag...hopefully he doesn't write his teleprompter drivvle. Of course, ANY weather is always "potentially damaging" to anything agricultural. No sh*t, Sherlock.
GREENLAND: Named by the Vikings in 900AD because it was warm. Frozen again by 1600AD. Guess all those Carbon credits cooled things down too much. In the 1800s one year in New England the snow did completely melt during the Summer. Always has been weird weather. Just no one as weird as Al Gore.
No, named "Greenland" by a murderer and con artist to convince others to join him in exile.
("Freeze-your-butts-offiistan" didn't seem as likely to attract dupes.) The colony there did
fairly well for a few decades, then they slowly froze and starved to death.
The ice sheet on Greenland is thousands of feet thick and has been permanent for at least
800,000 years, long before humans even evolved, let alone started civilizations.
The temperatures in Greenland during the so-called Medieval Warm Period were, in one
small place near the southern tip, almost as warm as today. Virtually everywhere else,
the temperature was much colder than today.
And didn't all the ice sheets on Greenland already melt last year, or was that just all of their glaciers? Something to think about, isn't it?
Jim ... over 400 years is a tad longer than a couple of decades. You could not say it was a thriving colony but they managed to raise live-stock and basic truck garden cultivation and population growth. Nor is it clear that they froze or starved to death in mass, there is evidence it was an orderly and timely abandonment to new location when the climate cycle returned to a colder period.
Sally ... the ice sheet melt is increased yes, but so has snowfall. The end result is that as the melt increases so does new ice formation that negates all but a fraction of that melt. The same thing is happening in the antarctic, the edges of the ice sheet melt and break away and snowfall increases in the interior pushing ice mass to the edges for very little total loss.
This is impossible! We are supposed to be getting warmer, Al Gore wouldn't lie to us would he?
Yes. Yes he would.
Al "The Sex Poodle" Gore in an effing liar.
Yes, he would lie, just like Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush, and now Obama. All of them, and all of their previous Presidents (Gore was VP) have lied. So what else is new?
The problem Sally is that when the Democratic Party Agenda lies it is a fast track to complete economic collapse. No jobs, gutted tax base, increased taxes on that gutted tax base and the next step is to induce inflation to allow paying back the unbelievable deficit with cheaper dollars in the future. The problem is that without a drastic dismantling of the welfare state and a national effort to recreate the middle-class tax base it is impossible to do reduce that deficit .... the best to be hoped for a few more years of just making the interest payments before total collapse.
the west with its warm weather getting unseasonably colder
the east with its cold weather getting unseasonably warmer
this cannot be clobal warming with unprecedented shifts in the tectonic plates can it? its not mother earth responding to the underground testing and the carbon footprint is it? its not due to us constantly drilling and killing the natural geography is it? im sure there are answers other than global warming and man's actions on this wonderful place we call earth. i wonder if i will have enough money to book a seat to mars :^)
"im sure there are answers other than global warming and man's actions on this wonderful place we call earth"
Yes, its called nature. This time around it may or may not also be influenced by human activity but it is still nature doing what nature does .... changing. It gets warmer, then it gets colder and then it starts over. Just like valcanos, earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes etc. its nothing personal.
all I know is I don't like it when it's in the 40's on the coast of L. A. Call it what you will, I just don't like it !!!
BTW, it's not the price of orange juice that will go up with the California freeze. It's the gasoline prices and interest rates that will. Just like every other time something completely unrelated to those two things so much as burps..........
It's phukin cold.
Confucius Say
The living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing.You ARE going to die regardless..Global change or not!
global warming is not real. and Mitt Romney won the election.
And Barry Hussein closed Gitmo, AND cut the deficit in half.
Mr. Starguy;
Uh, you forgot the part where he is not going to strip us of our second amendment rights and he is going to disclose where the other 7 missing states are.
You know what Bruce .... yes there is a climate change, natural cycle or not at this point is irrelevent. There is nothing any president can do about it. With 7 billion people on the planet that would not even exist without cheap portable energy in the form of fossil fuels what do you suggest? There is no viable alternative, none. Lets all stop using fossil fuels tomorrow okay? Within a couple of years world population will drop to around 1 billion desperate hungry, cold, diseased enclaves huddling in the dark and fighting off roaming bandit hordes. I agree a reduction in world population is something to strive for but dont you think that option is a bit drastic and inhumane?
Population control was renamed the War on Terror.
75,000 killed in Libya.
60,000 dead in Syria
Pakistan is just getting warmed up to massive death counts.
How many killed in Iraq?
Afghanistan?
Somalia?
Yemen?
Mali?
Nigeria?
Mexico?
The numbers seem small but while fighting wars people have less time for raping their wives.
Gusto........ innane and irrelevant posturing, how do you confuse the deaths at the hands of religious holdouts from the 7th century with trying to restrain their excess zeal? Just how many more people would need to be murdered by religious leftovers from the 7th century before you clue in? Population control would need to be in the billions to be effective and war is a very inefficient tool that historically results in net population increase. A much more effective means would be abortion on demand (mandatory for any person on welfare programs), enforced 2 child per family (just below replacement level) worldwide. In 70 years there would start to be a gradual and steady reduction resulting in better quality of life for all, restoration of wild life diversity .... basically every ill of today would disappear (except for religious insanity of course).
Yet we are appalled at China's One Child Rule.
They got that right. policy wise. Implementing it can be brutal though.
Now they are loosening the restrictions.
We sure could use some of that "global warming" right about now!
Anyone have Al "I Invented The Internet" Gore's phone number?
@starguy, yeah, it's 1-800-eat-s##t.
I live in "The Great White North" for those of you that remember Bob and Doug McKenzie. 40's and no snow to plow or shovel kind of like it.
It's cold as crap here in Reno.
It actually has been warmer here then parts of Southern Cal. So the Global warming hasn't worked for You Gusto? Remember Bob and Doug and Getty Lee's Famous line "Hey 10 bucks is 10 bucks"?