January 15, 2009

Hyde Park Weather Report

I heartily recommend the Facebook group "Not Evil Just Wrong." A new documentary from the makers of "Mine Your Own Business."

Ann McElhinney posts a link to Chicago Weather and sez: "Nation Freezes as Global Warming President Prepares For Office"

A new record was set Wednesday when Chicago had its ninth consecutive day of measurable snowfall, according to the National Weather Service.

The previous record was eight consecutive days set from Dec. 13 to 20, 1973.

Snowfall records in Chicago date back to 1884.

A wind chill warning has been issued as temperatures as tsmperartures will not reach single digits until Friday.

The forecast for Thursday is: Sunny and cold, with a high near -3. Wind chill values as low as -33. West northwest wind between 10 and 15 mph.

Thursday Night: Clear, with a low around -16. Wind chill values as low as -34. West wind around 10 mph.

Friday: Mostly sunny and cold, with a high near 6. Wind chill values as low as -32. Southwest wind between 5 and 10 mph.

Friday Night: Snow likely. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 5. South southwest wind between 10 and 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.


Of course, this is not proof of DAWG-fraud. But, were it unseasonably warm, I'm sure we'd be hearing about it.
UPDATE: David Harsanyi confers:
The carbon footprint of Barack Obama's inauguration could exceed 575 million pounds of CO2. According to the Institute for Liberty, it would take the average U.S. household nearly 60,000 years of naughty ecological behavior to produce a carbon footprint equal to the largest self-congratulatory event in the history of humankind.

The same congressfolk who are now handing out thousands of tickets to this ecological disaster only last year mandated the phased elimination of the incandescent light bulb — a mere carbon tiptoe, if you will.

Deleterious Anthropogenic Warming of the Globe Posted by John Kranz at January 15, 2009 11:55 AM

-47 degrees.

To be clear, it is 1:45 PM and the tempurature feels like FORTY SEVEN degrees below zero outside of my house.

I very much believe global warming to be a good thing.

~T. Greer, frozen.

Posted by: T. Greer at January 15, 2009 2:47 PM

Yup, that's the 'D' in my tendentious acronym. If the globe is warming and if it is man-made, is it bad?

After cold fronts and ice storms roll through, the TV news will report death tolls: a reminder that healthy, middle-class, reasonably prudent people do die of cold. A change in climate, anthropogenic or lupinogenic (caused by wolves?) would create some winners and losers and needs to be considered seriously in that light.

Of course, since coining that lame but phonetic device I have stopped believing in any warming at all.

Stay warm, bro.


Posted by: jk at January 15, 2009 3:57 PM

2:35 Pacific here, and it's 83 degrees outside in Pasadena, CA. It's supposed to be January outside. As in winter.

Come on by and join me for margaritas. Or, failing that, someone ship Al Gore out here to make a speech and lower the temperature.

Posted by: Keith at January 15, 2009 5:39 PM

It is, in fact, January at Atlantis Farm. Sunny and clear, we've made it up to the mid-forties today (45.6F as I type this, evidenced by the weather banner in the side bar). While winter in Colorado typically means pack up the garden hoses for the season, I actually watered the sand footing in our indoor arena today. Hey Greer - imagine what an impulse sprinkler would look like if it were operating in your yard today! And yes Keith, I was drinking margaritas the last two evenings. (OK, only because I was out of beer.)

To be fair, we did our time in Al Gore's "warming" barrel last month when the overnight low hit 22 below on the morning of the 15th.

Posted by: johngalt at January 15, 2009 5:59 PM

Will you guys stop it? Please? Do you really need to rub it in?

~T. Greer, jealous.

Posted by: T. Greer at January 15, 2009 7:50 PM

I will stop, but nonetheless, my offer of libation stands; and if I could teleport you thirty Fahrenheit degrees, I would.

Posted by: Keith at January 16, 2009 1:35 AM

I was gonna be nice, but since you guys have started -- I just took my beloved dog, Skylark, for a walk. I wore a golf shirt, no coat, no hat, no gloves.

You should take Keith up on his offer of 30, tg. Then it'd be a balmy -17; you could play a round of golf or something.

Posted by: jk at January 16, 2009 11:29 AM

I just now realized why it's so cold.

Obama got elected, and hell is freezing over. It's finally spreading to us.

Posted by: Perry Eidelbus at January 16, 2009 11:50 AM | What do you think? [8]