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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 02:57 AM
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It's 30 degrees warmer in Reykjavik, Iceland than here in Alabama.
The temperature on my carport is 16 freaking degrees. With the wind, it feels like 6! It's raining in Iceland and 46. Is this some fucked-up weather? Next week it's going back to the 70s.
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 03:03 AM
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1. I think this is the future weather coming at us
your right its screwed up
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ruiner4u Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 03:07 AM
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2. is the gulf stream scientific?
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 03:18 AM
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3. It's about ZERO where I'm at, and feels like sixteen below! NT
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Marrah_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 08:13 AM
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9. Hey MA Dem, cold enough for ya?
(just could not resist)

I think it is like 2 degrees here in sunny Foxboro!
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 12:15 PM
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18. Bwahahahaha!!!
Man, it's like a welldigger's ass around here...! This cold really BITES!!!!
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 06:05 AM
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4. Extremes. That's what I remember the elders saying...
Edited on Thu Jan-03-08 06:06 AM by SpiralHawk
..when they would talk about the stories, and tell of the Earth Changes that the stories said would come in our era...they would always talk about it being too hot in some places, too cold in others. Too wet in some places, and too dry in others. There have always been extremes, they would say, but in the time of the Earth Changes the storms and the extremes will be even more extreme as the Earth Mother tries to communicate her fundamental need for respect to the human beings who are befouling her. No respect, no balance. It's that simple, they would say.
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Marrah_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 08:14 AM
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11. Very wise elders
Mine say the same.
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monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 07:55 AM
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5. Hahahaha, it's 38 here in sunny Palm Beach...Going to the 70's by Saturday..
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Marrah_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 08:11 AM
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8. Hmmm I think I need to call my folks and snicker at them a little
They are "snowbirds" and live in FLA half the year
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RL3AO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 08:09 AM
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6. There is a major weather pattern shift happening in the US
major temp extremes are common during these shifts.
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Marrah_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 08:10 AM
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7. It's zero here in Mass
But we are FAR more prepared for the cold then you guys. I feel really bad for you all.
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 08:13 AM
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10. It's turning into a bizarro world.
It was about -1 at our house in New Hampshire this morning, but next week at this time it's predicted to be 50.
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Marrah_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 08:14 AM
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12. remember when it was 70 in January last year
My trees tried to bloom and the poor birds showed up thinking it was spring.
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 08:23 AM
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13. It could happen again. My daylilies were trying to come up in Nov. nt
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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 08:30 AM
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14. 2007 was apparently the 10th warmest year on record in
Iceland.

01/02/2008 | 11:15

Iceland Unseasonably Warm and Wet Last Year

According the Icelandic Meteorological Office, the weather in Iceland in 2007 was both unseasonably warm and wet. In Reykjavík, precipitation records were broken both in December alone and in the year as a whole.

It has not rained more in Reykjavík since 1921, mbl.is reports.

Last year was also unseasonably warm, the 10th warmest year in south and west Iceland since temperatures were first registered, and the 14th or 15th warmest in northeast Iceland.

http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16568&ew_0_a_id=297523
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onenote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 08:40 AM
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15. weather trends in places like Iceland are more relevant than a really cold day in Alabama
Not to be too crabby about it, but I dislike it when people point to an unseasonably cold or hot day and act like its a sign of climate change. A cold or hot day out of season doesn't prove anythihng. Heck, the coldest Jan 3 in Birmingham was only 8 degrees and that occurred 60 years ago (1928). Temperatures in the single digits or even below zero have occurred in Alabama on occasion for as long as records have been kept.

What is a concern is that most of the warmest years on record globally have all occurred in the past 10-15 years.
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RL3AO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 08:52 AM
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16. Correct. These cold mornings are common, especially
right before a major pattern shift like the US will be seeing in the next few days.
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 09:16 AM
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17. 25 down here in L.A.* this morning.
*Lower Alabama
I'm in Foley.
Brrrrrr
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ShaneGR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 12:22 PM
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19. Nothing all that unusual about the weather
Was watching the news and they were saying that the cold weather here in SW Florida was the same as 6 of the last 20 years. /shrug
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