America braces for its coldest Christmas
Eve EVER! Bomb cyclone is set to bring
record low temperatures to Florida, Georgia
and Pennsylvania: Montana National Park
thermometer breaks because it's too cold
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Harriet Alexander
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
12/23/2022 11:17:13 PM
Tens of millions of Americans are bracing for the coldest Christmas in living memory, with cities in Florida, Georgia and Pennsylvania expecting record-breaking lows.
At least ten people died this week in vehicle crashes that authorities said were likely related to the storm in Kentucky, Kansas, Ohio and Oklahoma, with a 50-car pile-up in Ohio and 100 crashes reported just north of the Canadian border, near London, Ontario.
One Ontario Provincial Police officer described the corridor as 'one of the worst traffic scenes' he'd ever witnessed.
More flights were cancelled on Friday - 5,259, as of 7:30pm - than on any other day of the year,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
TJ54 12/23/2022 11:24:24 PM (No. 1363672)
Where is the Global Warming Al Gore promised?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
padiva 12/23/2022 11:26:21 PM (No. 1363673)
I think Christmas in 1983 was very cold.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
cor-vet 12/23/2022 11:36:14 PM (No. 1363681)
The climate has changed here in S. Louisiana and it's cold. But it's been colder, the pond in front of the house has frozen over a couple of times in the past, but not so far this year.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
crashnburn 12/23/2022 11:36:42 PM (No. 1363682)
Where's that dreaded global warming when you really need it?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
thewarden 12/23/2022 11:37:27 PM (No. 1363683)
It’s going to be 79 in San Diego on Sunday. Some things are worth paying for. Stay warm and safe my friends, and I mean that sincerely.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
fmeyners63 12/23/2022 11:37:43 PM (No. 1363684)
Global warming, indeed...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Catherine 12/24/2022 12:06:23 AM (No. 1363693)
I wish they would stop trying to terrify people over the weather. This 'bomb' stuff needs to stop. It's winter. It's cold. It snows. Some Christmases we wore shorts and some coats. This is a cold winter, and that's all it is.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
snakeoil 12/24/2022 12:15:18 AM (No. 1363695)
I live in a subarb of Atlanta, GA. It is 10 degrees at the moment. I refuse to leave my house until the temperature is higher than Quid Pro Joe's IQ. Strangely haven't heard any Global Warming stuff lately.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 12/24/2022 12:25:21 AM (No. 1363698)
"bomb cyclone"
Stop with the panic porn.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 12/24/2022 12:41:15 AM (No. 1363700)
Here in the high altitudes of Colorado mtns, not bad at all. Sunny and 28F today, calm winds.
"Bomb cyclone" pure media hype BS. Hysterical weather reporters are just tiresome fools.
It used to be called a "winter storm", and everyone just dealt with it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
chumley 12/24/2022 12:47:03 AM (No. 1363703)
-3 here in WV when I left the house a little while ago. Getting a little chilly.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
IowaMarinesDad 12/24/2022 1:30:02 AM (No. 1363718)
This is ridiculous. The “worst ever” ??? Seems like that’s a long time. The year I proposed to my wife, it was extremely cold. I’m not exactly sure anymore but we’re talking-25 to -35 degrees. That’s cold. I’ve delivered propane when it was too cold for the propane in the tank to vaporize. That magic number is -44 degrees. We’ve seen worse.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Jesse Jenkem 12/24/2022 3:16:39 AM (No. 1363730)
This must be that Global Warming I have heard so much about.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 12/24/2022 4:19:33 AM (No. 1363734)
#2 is correct.The early 80's were extremely cold in Chicago. On Christmas Eve 1983, it was 25 degrees below zero actual temerature. We had three Christmas hyped little kids, a dog with five puppies, the water pipe frozen under the street and two cars that would not start. The Grampa's came to our rescue and managed to get us all to the family Christmas party before our kids exploded. Christmas Day it was a balmy -17.
We have had cold like this every few years, this is nothing new. 2013-14 was extremely cold and whatever the year Jesse Smollet sauntered out at 2am for his Subway it was -17. That may have been the first year "Polar Vortex" became popular.
Please stop hyping everything. They are just admitting that us old guys were made of pretty tough stuff. We just dealt with it and kept an eye on our vulnerable neighbors.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
mifla 12/24/2022 4:35:02 AM (No. 1363738)
And the subsequent high heating bills are brought to you by the Biden Administration.
Be sure to thank Joe "No more drilling" Biden.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Rather Read 12/24/2022 6:13:20 AM (No. 1363773)
It was below zero here and my bedroom is the warmest part of the house. TVA had announced some rolling blackouts but cancelled them. Whatever happened to all the money they got? Also, if they can't keep enough power to heat people's homes what would happen if we all got electric cars like Our Betters tell us to? It would crash the grid for sure. Speaking of electric cars, a friend of mine got one since he has to commute about 65 miles from home to work. Several times a year he has to go to trade shows about 300 miles away. He got so frustrated with the electric car that he moved to his workplace, sold the electric car and bought a truck.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/24/2022 6:53:04 AM (No. 1363796)
Traffic accidents and deaths are an inevitable certainty for those who would risk their families by traveling on cold, snow-covered roads on a busy holiday. To the last person, every one of them wishes they would have stayed home. Not getting any mention whatsoever are the one hundred and fifty people who died from fentanyl yesterday due to Joe's open border and an overworked Border Patrol.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 12/24/2022 6:59:20 AM (No. 1363799)
Gee, hope this doesn’t disrupt the immigrant flights to the sanctuary cities.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/24/2022 7:00:33 AM (No. 1363800)
#14, I was stupid and unfortunate enough to be working in Chicago in the early 80s. Waiting for an "L" on an outside platform in the western suburbs at 6:00 am while the station was packed with people, most of them smoking cigarettes, was the first step in getting downtown only to wait at a windy and freezing bus stop. That nonsense stopped after a couple of years.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
HPmatt 12/24/2022 7:05:41 AM (No. 1363803)
Going t/b 30deg in Dallas today, 35-40 tomorrow. UK Author is an idiot trying to distract that UK is funding illegals to invade their island, much like US Uniparty.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Hazymac 12/24/2022 8:11:49 AM (No. 1363839)
Here on the Gulf coast in the Tampa Bay area it was 33 F. this morning, the coldest it's been in about two years, but in the January 1985 "Hundred Year Freeze" the mercury reached 24 on the coast and 12 at Kissimmee, where I was running a professional golf tournament. That day it got close to zero at the Florida-Georgia border, hit 35 in Miami, and 41 in Key West. So it's cold out today, but it's been a lot colder before. Just wintertime. (And I'm glad to be in Florida.)
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
franq 12/24/2022 8:14:27 AM (No. 1363840)
Currently 6°F in North Carolina.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
ramona 12/24/2022 8:21:10 AM (No. 1363843)
Having grown up in MN I know COLD and SNOW. We are experiencing a nasty storm here in WNY because of the ice and wind. I cannot get out my back door without shoveling several feet of wind-blown snow away from the door. Then it fills up again very quickly. My front yard is blown free of snow but I cannot get the Beast to take care of business on the front lawn (I guess he's too modest to let the neighbors see him). So this morning I had to go around to the back and shovel out a path for him to the back yard where there is another patch of grass.
2 deaths in our town during the night because the emergency vehicles couldn't get to them in time to help. Our county commissioner says it is like a category 3 hurricane because of the winds. So everyone take care. I'm watching the Christmas services from Canterbury Cathedral all weekend and thanking God for a new grandniece born in MPLS last night! Take care everyone.
Ramona (the Pest)
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Sanddollar 12/24/2022 9:21:37 AM (No. 1363896)
#14 I lived in Chicago during that cold spell in 1983. I took a commuter bus to the train station, then when you left the train station and opened the door to the outside you were right on the Chicago River. I had a four-block walk to my office. You have to know how to dress. Before that I lived in Vermont without a car. Dress in layers and make sure you wear a hat and two scarves. Warm boots that are waterproof. I wear long underwear too.
It was minus one here with wind chill of minus 16. My dog has a terrible time with this weather. I am glad it will be gone soon.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/24/2022 9:55:57 AM (No. 1363926)
It’s currently 20 degrees here in Charleston, SC, but it will be back up to 70 by New Year’s Eve. We had a cold snap last year which was colder than this one and we managed to survive.
About that broken thermometer…my first father in law grew up in the Yukon Territory where his father worked for a gold mining company, in the early 20th century. He told me that it got so cold there that trees exploded from the sap inside them freezing and expanding. Now THAT is cold!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
red1066 12/24/2022 10:18:48 AM (No. 1363956)
I think so too #2. I remember driving home from college and the temps were -4 or -6 degrees and even with the heat on in my old car on full blast, the inside on my car never got warm. It was longest three hour drive I've ever had.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 12/24/2022 10:25:32 AM (No. 1363965)
Currently 34 degrees just north of Tampa. Bundled up keeping warm. House is cold. Whatever. The Lady Chihuahua and I will survive.
Agree about stopping the fear porn.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
joew9 12/24/2022 10:42:02 AM (No. 1363993)
This morning it only got down to about 8F so no record for me. And it's certainly in my "living memory". Maybe they mean the "living memory" of children. Any distortion for a headline I guess. Do reporters not have access to the internet to check history before creating such headlines? A day of single digit temperatures in Atlanta are almost yearly.
I have a Martin guitar that was in my trunk on Atlanta Christmas day 1986. The temp went down to about 4F. The finish on the guitar window paned. I think it looks handsome.
Also in Jan 1985 it went down to -9F. Now that was amazing. In my lifetime in Atlanta I have only once seen a headline for 1F. But -9F! That broke all records. Plants and trees that had never died ever were killed down to the roots and didn't grow back. Every Crape Myrtle in my neighborhood died and was eventually cut down over the next year as home owners realized they weren't coming back. Even the English Ivy leaves all turned brown. But it recovered over the next year because that stuff is just a plague. It's as bad as kudzu.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Axeman 12/24/2022 10:54:54 AM (No. 1364006)
Oh no! A SNOWCLONE is coming!
Quick, everyone, start your SUVs!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
DVC 12/24/2022 11:00:55 AM (No. 1364016)
Christmas of 1983, IIRC, actual temp in KC suburbs was -25F with about 25 mph winds, so again, from memory, -45F wind chill. I was using the day to do some epoxy-fiberglass layup work for an aircraft I was building. Getting my garage up to the required 70F was impossible until I got some added weatherstripping to seal the garage doors to the frames better. I'll never forget holding the tiny tacks to attach the weatherstripping with bare fingers in those bitter cold, windy temps. But, got the garage up to temp, and did the fiberglass work. I've flown that aircraft to both coasts multiple times, about 1,000 flying hours on it.
But it isn't nearly as cold as that in KC area this time, and there was certainly weather reports, but none of the foolish "bomb cyclone" baloney and near panic of the current crop of weather hysterics.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 12/24/2022 11:03:08 AM (No. 1364020)
Coldest ever, coldest in living memory or coldest in 25 years? All 3 can't be true.
Supposed to be over 80F here this weekend I plan to go on a nice walk around on the beach.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/24/2022 11:15:45 AM (No. 1364030)
Sunshine, clear skies, 78 today, 82 tomorrow, flowers blooming and the lemon tree across the street is loaded with fruit.
We’ll stay in California.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/24/2022 11:19:43 AM (No. 1364033)
Forgot to wish you all a warm cozy Christmas by your fire…. This too shall pass…
Also hoping for a Happier New Year for all of us...
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Shells 12/24/2022 11:42:29 AM (No. 1364042)
So fun hearing from everybody about this today.
This is my fourth Christmas living in Florida and the first one here where I can wear my winter gear. Thermals, corduroys, sweater and socks. This is what Christmas should feel like and I’ve missed it.
But I do feel for all you folks dealing with actual, bitter cold. Got a text first thing from my brother in CT where it was 4 this morning. He lamented that he was finally going to have to turn the heat on.
My brother is a funny guy.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
crashnburn 12/24/2022 12:30:11 PM (No. 1364069)
The saying in Alaska is there's no such thing as cold weather, just bad clothes
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 12/24/2022 2:30:58 PM (No. 1364125)
It was 7 this morning in North Georgia, but I have seen worse. Somewhere around 1961 I was working the third shift at a chicken hatchery. The hatchery was on a high ridge. I checked the temp about 2:00am, and it was 12 below. I agree with the posters decrying all the weather porn. I realize it's a business, and they want all the ratings that they can draw but, sheesh, weather people, give it a rest. I am also waiting on the sure-to-come reports from "experts" blaming the cold weather on global warming.
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