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Subscribe to RSSWinds up to 50 mph added to California's big chill misery on Monday as farmers struggle to save their citrus crops from sub-freezing temperatures and residents bundle up in record cold.
Downtown Los Angeles dipped to 35 degrees just before 4 a.m. Monday, breaking the previous daily record of 36 degrees set on Jan. 14, 2007.
Elsewhere Monday, it was 13 degrees in high desert Lancaster at 6 a.m., 25 degrees in Fresno, 27 in Temecula, 33 in Redondo Beach and Sacramento, 36 in Van Nuys and Palm Springs and 40 in San Francisco.
In Angeles National Forest, where overnight temperatures have been dropping into the 20s, Arcadia hiker Danny Kim, 28, was found Sunday night after surviving 26 hours in the frigid West Fork wilderness. Kim was airlifted to a hospital for treatment of hypothermia.
Some areas may see as much as an inch of ice, which is especially bad news for the Memphis air hub of Federal Express. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
Santa Ana winds have now joined the weeklong cold siege, raking the usual areas below mountain passes, including Fontana, the San Fernando Valley, Riverside, Chino Hills and the Oxnard Plain in Ventura County.
The winds helped to keep most Southern California crops out of danger.
But temperatures dipping into the 20s threatened mandarin oranges in the San Joaquin Valley. Mandarins can only withstand 32 degree temperatures.
Growers have been running irrigation water and turned on wind machines to ward off the cold.
"It's the coldest so far. We're expecting a little damage," said Alyssa Houtdy of Exeter-based California Citrus Mutual, an association of the state's 3,900 citrus growers.
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Traffic moves along the southbound I-5 freeway Friday Jan. 11, 2013 near Gorman, Calif. California authorities on Friday reopened a 40-mile stretch of I-5, a major highway north of Los Angeles, some 17 hours after snow shut the route and forced hundreds of truckers to spend the cold night in their rigs.
Farmers were still being contacted for assessments.
"We came out better than what we expected," Delano grower Doug Carman told the Fresno Bee. Carman's Paramount Citrus farms about 30,000 acres of clementine mandarins, navel and Valencia oranges, lemons and other citrus varieties
In Beverly Hills, fans brought heavy coats and scarves as they waited along the red carpet hoping to catch glimpses of stars arriving for the Golden Globes ceremony Sunday evening. Some of the actors shivered but weren't complaining.
"I'd rather be nippy than boiling hot," said actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who arrived in a strapless dress. "No, I'm not wearing any leggings or long underwear."
In San Diego, zookeepers offered extra heat and shelter for some animals.
The cold air was flowing east into neighboring Arizona, where metropolitan Phoenix was marking one of its coldest stretches in year. Temperatures over the weekend dipped to 30 degrees at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. They fell well below zero in mountainous Flagstaff.
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Global warming at it's best!
Yup; global warming can cause colder local weather. You could look it up if you just stay off the dittohead sites.
I like how when it is hot or when it is cold it's because of global warming.
Only Libs can believe that kind of logic because they are suckers.
Wow a record low. I am sure that the conservatives that want to continue dumping carbon into the atmosphere will use this as proof that the hundreds of record high across the country were just an anomaly. Of course it couldn’t be their fault.
Kinda like the righties seeing a ton of gun violence and saying we need more guns to fix it. Real logical.
Doug
You are the typical Lib.
Who do you think a "criminal" would rob first? An armed citizen or an unarmed citizen.
As a matter of fact more guns does equal less crime.
Reinf, don't use the word "fact" if you have no idea what it means. Talking points provided to brainless citizenry by the NRA do not qualify as "facts".
Truth,
How about answering the question I posed instead of repeating brainless lib talking points
about how evil the NRA is.
You are so stupid that you assume if new laws are passed that magically nobody will own "assault
rifles" with more than 10 round magazines. I am pretty sure that murder is illegal and it didn't
stop that Lanza kid.
Ah yes... the dittohead-moron. Soon to be extinct as AGW and Climate Change become more undeniable.
LOLOLOL, if youd just look at the extreme leftists green psychopaths website you would see that global warming is responsible for every single change of weather we will see until liberals get bored with global warming.
WTF is wrong with you non-nutbags, just believe everything a lib tells you and you will be much smarter for regurgitating it.
I do not see any political connection with whether or not someone believes in the climate change hype.
BTW---the White House stated that "climate change" is passe', it should be "global climate disruptions". At the very least, keep up to date with the latest buzzwords!
Sounds very nipply out West. It will kill the bugs, add babys, and make the OJ sweeter........
Hope all the fruits and nuts in California are enjoying their global warming.
Honestly, there is always one.
If it gets cold, then "climate change" is a myth. But your science ends at a glance at the temperature. Of course this is willful ignorance. You wouldn't really want to even try to understand the science. And on the internet you can even call yourself an expert and claim you are well informed on the subject. You can even make fun of those whose understanding of such a field dwarfs your own. But that doesn't change the reality of your own intelligence, that which you have so artfully displayed for us here on this board.
I hope we get some actual winter weather here in the South. Going to be a cruel, cruel summer otherwise. The almanac predicted bad winter weather but we have seen nothing.
How long has the latest rash of “astonishing facts and figures” been coming out related to weather phenomenon? About 10 years? How long has the global climate change religion movement been going on and all the push to reduce this and reduce that, and stop doing this, and do that? About 20 years? Am I the only that sees a possible connection? I say we need to get back to burning more fossil fuels and stop making the toxic solar panels and electric batteries … the recent cuts in consumption of fossil fuels and increase in production of solar panels and batteries and wind generators is obviously creating havoc on our weather systems and is obviously working against us, and not in our favor.
Hey, you GW nuts can make your wild claims and blame them on pure conjecture. I can make mine.
Ok, so your mad as h@ll and not going to take it anymore!
You just called 98% of the scientific community "nuts"! The difference between these people and yourself is they spent most of their lives devoted to science when you admit of yourself that you haven't invested five seconds of thought. But in your mind your opinion is equally valid to theirs.
Bring me your car when you need the timing belt changed. I have no experience with working on cars other than changing the oil, wipers, light bulbs and maybe a few filters. But I do have common sense. I believe my conjecture will be just as good as that trash that's in the manual written by some "expert". After all they don't know what they are talking about, right Just don't blame me when the engine blows apart and it can't be put back together.
You aren't even listening to what the scientists say. To most of them there are no absolutes, no certainty. Their minds are open to correction on a daily basis. If the data changes, their opinion changes. Is your mind open to change? LOL! We know that answer!
STexan, I still change my oil under an Oak tree and did a hole with the heel of my shoe so the filter can be covered. I don't buy into the media crap either.
Google "Treehuggers crying in the Forest" and pick the YouTube version. You will feel better and laugh so hard you might pee on yourself!! Have a fine day............
That won't change sh-t with the weather. Go find a soft spot in the earth (preferably sand). Dig a hole about a foot deep. Kneel down, insert head and cover. There, you should be comfortable now.
I grew up in the Bay Area and this is nothing new. about every five years the temperature would drop to around 35 or 40 degrees at night and we would awaken to some snow, really a nice treat for the youngsters. Now they blame it on Global Warming, its just a natural cycle.
I also remember the L.A. area in the 60s when the snow killed back the yard banana trees. Remember the big scare in the science community then was an immanent return of an ice-age? The rain patterns were different as well. Ever read "Two Years Before the Mast"? The afterword contains the authors comment about the changes in the weather patterns when he went back years later. Weather changes, then changes again.
The Bay Area and LA are two different things. I lived in both and it's not normal for it to be that cold in LA.
Loved how they skipped right over Nevada. Was 26 degrees at 5:45 this morning in Vegas with a wind chill factor in the teens. High today, as yesterday - 36. Yes, it occassionally gets this cold here, but not for so many days in a row. We've run the heater more days this winter than in the past seven since we moved here. Homes here are designed for AC, and it's a bear to keep first floors steadily warm.
Climate Change is an issue overall and must be dealt with, but not sure if this super cold snap is related... need more facts.
Ban Cold Fronts
Maybe we'll get lucky and California will just freeze off the Left Coast instead of sliding off into the ocean after a major earthquake.
The odd thing is California doesnt have much use for any part of the nation east of the Mississippi either. The last time I returned home from the wrong side of that river I swore it would be the last time I ever crossed it .... that was over 40 years ago.
The thing that worries me the most is how willing we all are to turn everything into an ideological fight. Would you say such mean things to each other face to face over a cup of coffee? Can you so easily dismiss another point of view when given by a fellow American standing right in front of you? Who knows everything?
I think we face some hardships in our lives going forward...on many fronts. I don't think that God or free markets would be against us doing our best, together. We have a real opportunity, here...think for yourselves!
I for one have and will continue to state the same things over a cup of coffee. I have yet to meet anyone capable of refuting simple statement of facts. I am willing to work with any individual who is not indoctrinated by the simple minded childish hateful leftist agenda or with anyone not consumed with distrust and frustration of the extreme right.
Thank you, Dennis...sip sip. I'm not familiar with your posting history, but your reply seems to place you squarely central and reasonable. What simple statements of fact will you share with me? I'm not trying to be antagonistic, but you haven't really made any statement, here. What is your view of climate change? What is your approach to civil discourse? Thank you!
All caused by GORE-BULL Warming......................
Pelosi must have returned home from Washington...
Yawn. All this talk back and forth about climate change and global warming. And it being mans fault.
Read and learn students. Read and learn.
http://drtimball.com/2012/current-global-weather-patterns-normal-despite-government-and-media-distortions/
Rossby waves. Switching from Zonal flow to Meridional flow. Normal. Natural. Explains why cold air is reaching so deep in some areas and why warm air is reaching so far north in other areas.
Nothing spooky or man made about it.
All this global warming talk is a sinister left wing agenda?
Definition of "Left-wing Agenda"
An apparently futile attempt to educate the ignorant in hopes of helping them break the mental bondage resulting from listening to reich-wing demagoguery.
Excellent, with any luck at all, the cold temps will freeze to death all of the illegals in LA, whom our crooked congress wants to keep here in the usa, eh obama?
Hopefully it will get rid of about a million of thse pieces of trash all at once and then all LA has to do is go around with a garbage truck and pick the frozen trash up and throw it away.
Global warming discussions are truely a political agenda. The intent is to pin "Climate change" as a man caused event. After this becomes accepted. We then tax they heavily the carbon producing Countries, Companies, and Individuals. Giving government more capital so they can be "here to help you".
There is much good scientific data to support both sides of the arguement. However, so times history is the best teacher. Climate on earth in best measured in milleniums. The largest impact to earth temps. is our Sun. BTW did you know that while earth temps were rising so were the temps the the other planets in our solar system ( must be to many SUV's out there).
The best history to look at is when has the earth been the hottest in the past. "The Little Climactic Optimum" a period of about ~300 yrs. from approx. 1000AD to 1300 AD when temps averaged about 4*F higher then they are now. The ice caps in Greenland were totally gone (Vikings farmed Greenland then). People in N. Europe grew larger during this period (easier food access, less time trying not to freeze).
This warm time lasted 300 years. Even though there was only 10% of the current humans on earth. It must be obvious to all: They were all driving SUV's, Each had is own Oil refinery, and each voted Right Wing Wacko, every year.