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Icicle Al heads home to his Tennessee thermo-mansion:
A spokeswoman said Gore was on a flight from Washington, D.C., to Nashville Friday ...
At which point the Gore Effect delivered unto Nashville a brutal Gor’easter:
There’s snow falling on Nashville ... residents are reporting flurries around Vanderbilt, Hillsboro Village and Bellevue.
If you think it’s cold now, just wait. The coldest April temperature ever reported in Nashville was 23 degrees. Tonight, the forecast calls for a low of 22.
Some are delighted by the Effect’s Nashville manifestation:
Marc Mitchell will line his No. 93 Ergon Chevrolet up in the ninth position for tomorrow’s Nashville ARCA 150 for the ARCA RE/MAX Series at the Nashville Superspeedway. On a frigid day in the hills of Tennessee, Mitchell toured the 1.33 mile concrete oval in 29.722 sec., good for 161.456 mph ...
”These cold temperatures are great for the motors. We can make great power when the air is able to expand,” said Clanton.
Al’s probably worth half a second per lap. The Effect also has economic benefits, as reader Dave G. points out:
In my home state of Pennsylvania, the ski season is typically over by the end of March and the arrival of spring temperatures. But, just a few hours north at Gore Mountain, New York, they just got 13 inches of new snow this week! Spread the word to your Aussie readers who might care to partake in the extended ski season here in the US!
Consider it done, Dave. Although chill-phobic movie fans might wish to avoid New York City:
Former Vice President Al Gore will serve as host when the 12-day Tribeca Film Festival opens in New York on April 25 ...
The mere announcement of Gore’s appearance has already driven NYC temperatures down. Over in Vermont, Gore monitor Daniel F. is suffering beneath a fresh load of global warming:
But that outstanding cat of his remains as fat and happy as ever:
UPDATE. The Gore Effect works for Aussie Marcos Ambrose, racing this weekend at the Nashville Superspeedway: “Ambrose’s lap of 165.63 mph in the #59 Kingsford Ford was fast enough to start 2nd, his career best start.”
UPDATE II. The Goring of Nashville follows a warmer than usual March - same as in 1907:
One time it happened was exactly 100 years ago in Nashville where the warmest March on record was followed by the coldest April on record.
UPDATE III. July 4 marks one year since the Gore Effect was first described; brace for a planet-wide freeze.
I wouldn’t be too quick to talk about economic benefits of the cold snap. We had temperatures in the upper 70s in Cincinnati a week ago (that’s 25C to the rest of the world) and the fruit trees were starting to blossom. This freeze is going to do serious damage to the fruit crops, and that’s on the heels of the bite that California took this winter.
Posted by JDFlanagan on 2007 04 07 at 03:09 PM • permalinkA Gor’easter! O jolly phrase! The only jolly thing in this brutal cold in Queens, NY this day!
It’s already been getting colder during the past few days. I was sure the Algore was in the Northeast.
The people shiver their way through the streets,
Past the idling buses they shlep,
Algor mocks their every step!A spokeswoman said Gore was on a flight from Washington, D.C.
Was he in Washington Wednesday? Because we East Coasties in Maine got a foot of global warming Wednesday night. Had a 2:30 AM drive home in snowy dark so clenchingly terrifying that I had a five-pound chunk of upholstery in my rectum by the time I got home. Had to shovel my driveway just to get in. Saw intermittent flashes in the sky of power lines coming down.
I saw a few flakes fly here in Nashville yesterday, and I wasn’t at VIP Arrivals at the airport.
Posted by Some0Seppo on 2007 04 07 at 03:24 PM • permalinkThe Gore Effect is alive and well in the eastern US
I have a couple of inches of global warming mocking me in the yard, with the possibility of additional frozen warming by midweek. Thanks, Al, you bloated windbag!
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 04 07 at 03:24 PM • permalinkSpeaking of Pennsylvania and Al-Gore, it’s snowing here.
Posted by rightwingprof on 2007 04 07 at 03:30 PM • permalinkI wonder what Al’s watching on that 52” plasma screen?
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 04 07 at 03:34 PM • permalinkThe gore-bot is obviously staying away from the west coast. It was 75 and sunny yesterday in Seattle. Of course, there is no real reason for him to come out here as we’ve been overrun by enviro-nuts for decades.
Posted by David Crawford on 2007 04 07 at 03:41 PM • permalinkAnd just as a checkpoint—here in north central Texas the temperature is in the mid-thirties (Fahrenheit; in Celsius that’s three or so), and it’s snowing. The snow started, according to reliable report, around 5 AM (when I was not paying attention) and has continued all day. It isn’t cold enough for it to stick, but it hasn’t stopped as of 3 PM central time either.
Good for the peach trees. I like peaches. Thank you, Al.
Regards,
RicDesperate UN bureaucrats are burning copies of the IPCC Report to stay warm and keep the wolves escaping from the iced-over zoos at bay…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 07 at 04:40 PM • permalinkIt’s so cold in New York Michael Moore was found entombed in ice with undigested buttercup blossoms in his stomach…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 07 at 04:42 PM • permalinkRecord low last night (19 F) and looking at a forecasted even lower low tonight which will supposedly be the 2nd lowest April temp ever for Kansas City. The lowest was recorded back in ‘75, I think they said. Mid seventies in any case. Back then it was a new ice age coming, now it’s global warmongering.
Go figure.
And yes, the cat is cool personified.
To reprise the old joke,
It was so cold in Washington DC, I saw politicians with their hands in their own pockets.
Posted by Bruce Lagasse on 2007 04 07 at 04:52 PM • permalinkThat cat even looks more intelligent than Gorezilla.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 04 07 at 06:22 PM • permalinkSomeone might want to ask Marcos how comfortable he feels driving a car named for charcoal… keep them Nomex skivvies zipped, Marcos…!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 07 at 06:26 PM • permalinkMmm, wonder what the climate elite are going to say about this thread. Brush your hair, guys, wipe those noses and put on your best thongs/flip-flops. They’re watching!
O/T Kevin Rudd tried to get the Anzac Day dawn service brought forward so more people might worship him on Sunrise. Rudd’s Insult to Vietnam Vets
Why wait for dawn when the sun shines out of Kevni’s arse?
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 04 07 at 07:05 PM • permalinkIs Augusta near Tennessee?- they got record cold temps at the golf
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 04 07 at 07:07 PM • permalinkHello, my friends,
Easter Greetings to all. Have been too long absent and have missed the craziness.
Cold as hell here in Central Texas: sleet on the back deck.
Could I get an assist (sorry, Andrea, please humor me this)??
Comment on the most active item for two days:
“Freed Captives Describe Iranian Threats and Pressure.”Sorry, can’t get “link” to work through the comment area (no doubt user error).
Sincere apologies for MIA. Have been watching, but Father has been ill.
Thanks all, and hope all is well with you. Glad for your magnificent shoes. :)
Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2007 04 07 at 07:16 PM • permalink#1 andycanuck - I was talking to a friend yesterday who lives in Port Credit and she said it was freeking cold.. really really cold. I asked if Gore had been in town and she wasn’t sure but had a vague recollection of possible visit sometime.
Thanks for clearing up ths confusion. It seems that these days just the idea of him is sufficient to freeze everything in sight!
Hmm, it’s enough to freeze the goreballs off a warming monkey!
I adore that cat, even though it resembles a malevolent drain clog with eyes.
As the proud part-owner of a Maine Coon (it’s in Chicago now, while I’m at college) I know well how extremely furry cats react to cold temperatures. S-t-r-e-t-c-h out and wave their bottle-brush tails at everybody, smug in their warm coats while us hairless ape-descendants are shoveling the walk and freezing to death.
Hey, Gore’s having an effect on the ecosystem all right—furrier species of cats will thrive, while their short-haired brethren will be nothing more than frozen meow-pops. In 50 years, the entire North American continent could be buried under shed-off cat hair. STOP GLOBAL SHEDDING!!!!!!!!!!
/apologies to the exclamation point.
Posted by Tungsten Monk on 2007 04 07 at 07:58 PM • permalinkFlorida must have been having sympathy chills today.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 04 07 at 08:21 PM • permalinkHas Gore been to Texas lately?
We’re breaking out the Gore-Tex tonight, as the mercury is expected to dive to 32F before morning.
It is about 17 days since the first of spring….
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2007 04 07 at 08:52 PM • permalinkChannel 7’s “Sunrise” trying to turn a solemn occasion like the dawn service at Long Tan, Vietnam, into some sort of made for TV stunt is nothing short of despicable.
They have no shame, no sense of honour, and no ethics, the pathetic mongrels.
If politicians of any persuasion go along with this travesty they are just as bad as the TV goons.The memorial service to our Vietnam fallen soldiers is not a freak show.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 04 07 at 10:26 PM • permalinkOT, but UN Human Rights Council has gone cold[/url] on examining human rights violations in Iran and Uzbekistan, the worst practitioners of h.r. violations.[url=http://publiuspundit.com/2007/03/the_colossal_failure_of_the_un.php]
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 04 07 at 10:27 PM • permalinkAargh! When will I master this dark art of linking?
*sigh* back to linking class for me!
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 04 07 at 10:29 PM • permalinkHmmmm.
April 25th?
Oh hell. Time to break out the cold weather clothing from the closet.
Posted by memomachine on 2007 04 07 at 10:33 PM • permalinkIs the Gore Effect just the tip of the iceberg?
Doesn’t Gore exert a greater boredom effect than can be explained by standard theories?
How do we know that Gore doesn’t suck up energy and power in all forms wherever he goes?
Someone should look into patterns of unusual demands on power stations and see whether they match up with Gore’s travels.
#48 peter m,
Awwww! Smiling and laughing already!
Congrats to you and the missus.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 04 08 at 01:29 AM • permalinkMy son had baseball practice today at noon. It was minus 3 degrees celsius. At the conclusion he just sprinted directly to the car (with dad following as quickly as possible)and then flatly refused to get out and wipe the mud off his boots. It was miserable with the wind whipping across the corn fields, they even cancelled the White Sox game last night because of the cold . Al the Ice Man cuts a wide swathe.
Posted by alien kiwi on 2007 04 08 at 02:02 AM • permalinkThere’s no celsius in baseball!
I was to comment on that same fact, moptop. In baseball jargon, that would be 26.6°.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 04 08 at 08:54 PM • permalinkYes, I want to thank Albore and his Global Warming Parade™ for me being stuck in a house in Richmond, Virginia, this weekend with snow on the ground, a daughter who had had knee surgery, and an autistic 5-year-old and his 2-year-old brother screaming to go outside.
Thanks, you %#!#^%^%&#$ jerk.
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2007 04 09 at 11:22 AM • permalink
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Yeah, that s.o.b. (Gore, that is, not the above-cited readers) is scheduled to be in Toronto for around April 28. I’ve already been to the hardware store to buy some more rock salt for the walk and driveway in anticipation of the Great Gore Ice Storm of ‘07. Cold as death here, too, although the snow isn’t accumulating. (Different story in Ontario’s ‘snow belt’, NW of here, however: A White Easter.)