Right now, according to the internets, it’s -27.4 F (-33 C) outside my apartment, with a wind chill of -44 F (-42 C).
That’s really cold. Even for Minnesota in January.
Of course, while it is, in fact, really really cold, it goes without saying that it does not follow that global warming is a total scam; I shouldn’t have to write that, but I know how the denialists are.
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It’s below zero here in the Chicago ‘burbs. My car wouldn’t start yesterday, so I had to jump it off my wife’s car, drive it to work, get it started there again and drive to Sears at a local mall. I swapped out the battery ($75 worth of Sears’ Gift Certificates as Christmas gifts came in handy there), which would have been a lot easier if I had realized when I grabbed some tools in the morning that the nuts on the battery terminal clamp bolts were metric. It became necessary to employ severe cursing.
Right now, according to the internets, it’s -27.4 F (-33 C) outside my apartment, with a wind chill of -44 F (-42 C).
Wow. Us North Carolinians aren’t meant to handle that. We’ll sit on the porch and drink beer while watching a hurricane next door but you can keep that temerature.
It’s true, the denialists will say “what warming?” and even “damn, I WISH it was warm right now!” The problem lies in the terminology; I think climate change is a better label because it suggests the drastic changes (like extreme temperatures) that we are already experiencing.
I don’t miss the cold temps at all. It’s 80 degrees with daily Santa Anas out here. Rain? It’s strange b/c January used to be the big month of the year but in the past few years, has nary seen a drop.
I’m wondering if it’s going to be like 2007 where there was less than two inches of rain for the whole year.
I don’t know what’s going on with climate change but something’s seriously out of whack. And we’ll be sitting on our porch looking at our parched grass and undergoing mandatory water rationing, discussing it while drying off from our 90 second showers.
Jeff, where are you at? I’m in the Arrowhead.
Krupskaya–
Lakeville, just south of the Cities.
Down in the tropics, then. :p
It’s only 10F here – but we’re in southern Indiana, so still, pretty cold for here.
I’m a former Minnesotan, now in Oakland. It’s unseasonably warm here– it’s supposed to be the rainy season, and it is as bone-dry as July. I don’t even want to think about what is happening to the reservoir.
It’s possible to have freaky cold winters and still have “Global Warming” (and I’m with the other poster — “Climate Change” is a much better term). It’s just that the “Global Warming” crowd keeps making the predictions that have people thinking it’s supposed to get warmer and warmer and never have these bitterly cold winters.
(And I think they make lots of other mistakes, all of which give people lots of reasons to disagree with them, which I do on several key points, none of which are relevant to this discussion.)