Winter Blast Brings Snow To West LA, Malibu

CHP To Escort Motorists Through Icy Grapevine

POSTED: 9:43 am PST January 17, 2007

UPDATED: 7:04 pm PST January 17, 2007

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — Snow fell on the palm trees of West Los Angeles and Malibu Wednesday afternoon as Jack Frost visited the Southland again.

NBC4 forecaster Fritz Coleman said the mixture of precipitation in West Los Angeles at about 3 p.m. included a dusting of snow. Residents in West Los Angeles said the snow accumulated in parking lots, on cars and around palm trees near Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards and other areas. Most of the snow fell south of Sunset Boulevard and just east of the 405 Freeway. Residents told NBC4 that several inches of snow fell in their yards. The last snowfall recorded at Los Angeles International Airport was in January 1962, according to the National Weather Service. Trace amounts — less than 0.5 inches — were reported, according to the NWS.

Imagine if her Seal of Approval was revoked because she’s using bogus science to advocate Global Warming.

Q: How can you tell which side is wrong? 

A: That’s actually easy.  The side that tries to shut down opposition and/or tries to deny opposition any voice in debate is the side that is wrong. 

Yep, boys and girls, the liberal wackos who love global warming are wrong.   Otherwise, why aren’t they out there debating with the opposition instead of trying to obliterate it?  These aren’t scientists at all.  Scientists have an open mind about their theories and ideas.  They attack things from all angles and allow for change and updates and introductions of unknowns.

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2062484.ece

Meet the world’s top destroyer of the environment. It is not the car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it is the cow.

A United Nations report has identified the world’s rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to the climate, forests and wildlife. And they are blamed for a host of other environmental crimes, from acid rain to the introduction of alien species, from producing deserts to creating dead zones in the oceans, from poisoning rivers and drinking water to destroying coral reefs.

Seattle – Cold still.  Ice again.  Winter weather tough this year.

SEATTLE - The latest snowstorm is behind us, but temperatures are expected to dip overnight and thawing roads could freeze over again, making it another icy commute Wednesday morning.

Almost on cue, Tuesday’s early morning arctic blast dropped a fresh layer of wet snow on the region between 4 a.m. and 9 a.m., snarling traffic and canceling school for nearly 380,000 students.

One to 2 inches of snow accumulations dropped in the urban areas and 2 to 3 inches fell in the outlying areas.

Storm-weary Washingtonians may be wondering when we’re going to thaw out.

“It’s going to be a very slow warm up,” said KING 5 meteorologist Rich Marriott. “Part of the problem is the ground is so cold right now. It’s going to take a while for temperatures to warm up the ground and melt things off. Upper 30s, near 40 degrees doesn’t have a whole lot of energy to do that, so it’s going to take a while.”

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But wait, there’s more …

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid=%7B644A7D21%2DAB88%2D4BD5%2D8AFA%2D65664179DFEE%7D&dist=rss

 San Fran hit with cold and ice.  Ice in Dallas.  Freezing rain in Louisiana.  Missouri hit hard.   Wow, just think.  If those liberal wackos were right, we’d be a nice, toasty 80 degrees and enjoying the sun.   Hmmm …  Where’s that global thermometer at? 

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Emergency crews scrambled Tuesday to restore electricity to about 80,000 customers nationwide that are still in the dark following a series of ice storms that snapped trees and power lines from the Southwest Plains to New England.

The onslaught of freezing rain left little doubt that it is January, putting to rest any notion that the balmy weather in late December could last long.

Power company officials said that most of the 600,000 homes and businesses that lost service over the weekend are back on line, but that some of the harder-hit areas, especially rural regions, will have to wait until Wednesday for relief.

Meanwhile, meteorologists are warning more misery could be in store for parts of Texas, where freezing rain pushed Governor Rick Perry’s inauguration ceremony indoors in Austin on Monday, and parts of the Mississippi Valley and Louisiana.

A thick coating of ice knocked out power to at least 6,000 customers in the Dallas area and another 175,000 in neighboring Oklahoma over the weekend.

State police blamed slick roadways for at least 46 deaths across the country, according to the Associated Press.

Missouri was among the hardest-hit regions, crippled by a series of fast-moving fronts that caught the state in a damaging freeze-thaw-freeze cycle.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/16/realestate/16rentals.html?ei=5065&en=c551d19d50f5b8bd&ex=1169528400&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print

At the end of 2006, 24,200 units were on the market in the Washington area, up from 13,000 at the start of 2005. Sales have slowed to 663 in the fourth quarter of 2006 from 3,520 in the first quarter of 2005, according to Delta Associates. Recorded prices have been flat, which probably masks an effective decline since only the most attractive properties are selling and many owners throw in extra inducements that do not show up in official figures.

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Nationally, condominium sales have fallen further than those of single-family properties, 13.6 percent from November 2005 to the same month in 2006; free-standing homes showed a 10.7 percent decline in the same period. Inventories have risen 38.1 percent for condos and 29.6 percent for individual homes, according to the National Association of Realtors. The national median price — half the condos sold for more and half for less — was $224,600 in November, unchanged from November 2005.

But there is no comprehensive, national source of data for new condominiums sales. The Realtors group only measures sales of existing units and the Commerce Department, which tracks sales of new single-family homes, does not collect data on condominiums.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070115/ap_on_re_us/winter_blast

Midwest hit by ice storms.  It’s started, I tell ya.  Pretty soon, we’ll be hearing about how the ice age is coming.

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 LOS ANGELES, January 12, 2007 - A cold snap hit the Southland amid forecasts of record or near-record low temperatures Friday and Saturday night in metropolitan, coastal and valley areas of Los Angeles County.

I know!  It was global warming that melted an iceberg free from the North Pole which then drifted to Southern California and caused record and near record low temperatures.  yeah, that’s it!

http://www.break.com/index/effect_of_drugs_and_alcohol_on_spider_webs.html

http://www.claytoncramer.com/weblog/2006_12_31_archive.html#116809650615335628

Definitely not PC by any standard.