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GORE EFFECT STILL POTENT
Al Gore won a Quill award this week for his Big Wrong Llama book. Despite him not being in New York state to collect his prize, the fabled Al Gore Effect nevertheless kicked in almost immediately:
Snow downed scores of tree limbs and toppled power lines, leaving more than 220,000 customers without electricity in western New York.
By early Friday, 14 inches of snow had been recorded at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport, with reports of 2 feet elsewhere, said Tom Paone, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. The snowfall was expected to continue throughout the morning, he said.
On Thursday, 8.3 inches of heavy snow set the record for the “snowiest” October day in Buffalo in the 137-year history of the weather service, said meteorologist Tom Niziol. The previous record of 6 inches was set Oct. 31, 1917.
Snowy in Detroit, too—earliest measured snowfall since October 13, 1909, in fact. Send any snow pictures if you’ve got ‘em.
UPDATE. Gene Dillenburg emails: “Here’s a photo from Lansing, about 90 miles from Detroit. Don’t know what the big deal is—this is what we here call a ‘dusting.’ Meanwhile, we are reveling in the joy of watching the Tigers march through the AL playoffs.”
UPDATE II. Mike Lutz emails: “It was definitely more than a ‘dusting’ in Buffalo and environs. Attached are a couple of pictures my sister sent out, showing the tree damage around her yard; she says it is actually worse than it looks in the photos. The damage is great because (a) the snow was very heavy and (b) most of the trees still had leaves for snow to accumulate on.
“My brother and I are going out tomorrow to help her family clean up a bit. Wish us luck.”
Hmmmm....a 137 year record and a 97 year old record.
If we were in the throes of global averaging (cooling + warming = averaging), wouldn’t they be breaking last year’s records? And I guaren-frickin’-tee that none of them were as hot, cold, or warmening as when I was a kid.
I figure this winter will be *cold*, followed by a *warmening* spring, and topped off by a *hot* summer. I challenge the moonbats to prove me wrong.
Snowy in Detroit, too—earliest measured snowfall since October 13, 1909...
I blame all of the horse farts, myself. That’s why I want one of those horseless carriages that I’ve heard so much about. (They’re great for picking up chicks, too, I hear.)
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 10 13 at 11:22 AM • permalinkHere in Ohio I spent yesterday afternoon mowing (I don’t rake, I like slicing up those little fuckers) leaves and bagging them. I wore a T shirt and a sweatshirt and froze my ass off. Global warming my frigid butt.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 10 13 at 11:27 AM • permalinkI’m in Metro Detroit and I have a colleague (who doesn’t really know all that much about science in general, or modeling or anything quantitative) who is a hard-core AlGore Global Warmening supporter.
I came in yesterday and said, “Looks like I just got .2 inches of Global Warming on my car and my lawn.” She informed me that “Global Climate Change” (verbally underlined) caused VARIATION in the weather. So, I said, “Does that mean we didn’t have variable weather before the Industrial Revolution?”
Her head is probably still hurting.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 10 13 at 11:50 AM • permalinkUnlike other literary prizes, which are commemorated with plaques, certificates and so forth, the Quill award is a special cushion that you put in your favorite chair. Have a seat, Al.
Incidentally, according to the BBC article, “Top prize went to Tyler Perry’s Don’t Make a Black Woman Take Off her Earrings, which won book of the year . . .”. Of the two books - Tyler’s and Al’s - the former is probably the more serious.
Hmmm.
Well referring to the science in the movie “The Day After Tomorrow”, as done by a CNN reporter, I’d have to state that we here in the Northeast United States must now be on the lookout for a flash freeze that’ll freeze us solid in seconds.
Or.
Could someone get Al Gore to permanently move his vast rear end to someone in Colorado where they actually *want* snow? I live in New Jersey and this early snow nonsense just sucks.
I need to get my snowblower ready in case Al “Git of Doom” Gore decides to wander over my way.
Posted by memomachine on 2006 10 13 at 12:28 PM • permalinkWell here in Sydney it’s a 150 year record ready to be broken - 2 very hot days in a row in October
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,20578439,00.html
Could we organise a mass rain dance for Oz though please?
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2006 10 13 at 12:32 PM • permalinkOff to the gulags with you, climate change denier!
Posted by Christopher Ross on 2006 10 13 at 01:11 PM • permalink#13 Paco, what a ding-dong! (Gore that is, not you.)
No snow here, but the wind is blowing like a son of a gun, and it’s cold. El Niño says it’s going to be a warmer than average winter here, but every sign I’ve seen says early and cold.
Same here in Toronto, Rebecca, including the long range winter-long forecast from Environment Canada. And, similalry, sounds like b.s. to me especially after a summer that’s been about 5°C below normal and only one 10-day really hot spell. It’s 6°C here after a sunny morning but 3°C overnight with it colder taking into account the wind chill effect.Posted by andycanuck on 2006 10 13 at 01:17 PM • permalinkOkay guys, you’ll be laughing out the other side of your keyboards when the warrants arrive for your Nuremburg Trials.
Me, I’m not worried, as I live in the Good Ol’ Yes Ess of Ay and am heavily armed. Come on and serve me some warrants, eco-Sheriff!
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 10 13 at 02:43 PM • permalinkSo, I said, “Does that mean we didn’t have variable weather before the Industrial Revolution?”
What really ought to hurt the heads of Mother Gaia Worshippers™ is that Buffalo is getting lake effect snow. It’s a local variation in the weather pattern that has been observed for a long time. And while the effects are local, the weather patterns necessary for lake effect remain global.
Yet, even with global
warmingcoolingclimate change that has been “observed”, even “small” (on a global scale) weather patterns haven’t changed significantly.Even worse.....who is to say that Mother Gaia™ isn’t pissed at Algore’s self-proclaimed designation as Her Prophet? Shouldn’t She be the one to choose? This storm might have been Her revenge with Algore over that. ;-P
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 10 13 at 03:12 PM • permalinkHmmm.
Hey if it means I can get Florida temperatures while continuing to live in New Jersey then I’m very much in favor of Global Warming.
Posted by memomachine on 2006 10 13 at 03:19 PM • permalinkIt is with alarm that we here in Ottawa are observing snow surrounding and encroaching upon us. We haven’t had it yet, but it has been spotted in Smith Falls already. Did Al Gore pass through?
Only two weeks ago, I was hearing the
metrologweather people say this winter was going to be mild.All early indicators are that it is coming one month early and probably is going to be tough.
...And they reckon we can predict the weather in 100 years. Ha!! I spit in their ge3neral direction.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 13 at 03:57 PM • permalinkThe snow belt northwest of Toronto, like Fort Erie, got it too, wimpy, but not T.O., which, as you know, is the centre of the universe.
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 10 13 at 04:25 PM • permalinkandycanuk:
T.O., which, as you know, is the centre of the Tim Hortons universe.Better, eh?
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 10 13 at 05:59 PM • permalinkJesus. Don’t know about you guys, but yesterday here in Cedar Rapids, IA, I woke up with a nice frosting of snow on the ground and chilly winds that could take your ears off. My family lives in Chicago, and apparently they’re gearing up for a white Halloween. If this keeps up, the entire Midwest is going to be buried until spring.
Global warming, huh?
Posted by Tungsten Monk on 2006 10 13 at 06:42 PM • permalinkWe’re having a magnificent autumn here in No California. Today it’s 78 degrees and sunny. Sorry.
Was talking to a guy a while back who had experienced a 100-year flood earlier this year. He was railing on and on about
GWGCCC and the destruction and havoc it was creating. I innocently asked him, “Why is it called a ‘100-year flood’?” He explained that a flood of that magnitude occurs once every 100 years or so. I just smiled as it began to dawn on him exactly what he was saying.JorgXMcKie--I’ve asked many an Algork wannabe to explain the extreme and changeable weather the planet experienced prior to the Industrial Revolution. So far no one has been able to. You’d think it would give them pause. It doesn’t.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 10 13 at 07:53 PM • permalink#30. Yeah, Dave, that hit Toronto too even without any lake effect snow, but “just” about 4’ [1.5 m] or so that reminded me of snowfalls in the ‘70s when the new, pollution-caused Ice Age was supposed to be starting.
And I’ve just remembered that it was worse in Sault Ste. Marie (where my family is from) that is where the three upper Great Lakes meet (for our non-American readers). It was around 9’ there.
And I’ve forgiven the Bills for the Flutie debacle and don’t mind cheering for them now again.
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 10 14 at 12:29 AM • permalinkMy daughter and grandkids live outside Buffalo. They got hit with about 2 ft of very wet lake effect snow accompanied by strong winds.
Since the 2001 blizzard they decided to fight climate change by purchasing vehicles that could handle it. They got rid of the Dodge Neon and the minivan and now drive 2 Ford Expeditions. They performed admirably and everyone made it home in a safe and timely manner.
Try that with a hybrid
Posted by Just Some Poor Schmuck on 2006 10 14 at 05:33 AM • permalink
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