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To: average joe who wrote (45679)	1/7/2014 8:46:43 AM
From: Land Shark	1 Recommendation Recommended By average joe Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86356

Yep global warming is false 'cause its so darn cold in 'murica

To: average joe who wrote (45679)	1/7/2014 10:52:43 AM
From: Wharf Rat	2 Recommendations Recommended By Eric Maurice Winn Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86356

"The whole planet is freezing over." No, it's not. Are you stupid, are you dumb, or is the "whole planet" everything you can see from your backyard? While most of the US is fighting with snow, sleet, ice, sub-zero temps and all of the joys that come with any mixture of those things, that's thankfully just a tiny speck of the world. Thanks to Winter Storms Hercules and Ion, Chicago just got buried in almost 2 feet of snow and will now be facing a high of -11° F (and that's no typo), but that's only one extreme when it comes to crazy weather; there are places experiencing some of it's hottest temperatures to date. We snapped the photo above over the weekend, on our way from Brisbane, Australia to the Sunshine Coast, during the worst heatwave Queensland has seen in 15 years. That dashboard temperature reading of 47° Celsius converts to 116° Fahrenheit. What a scorcher! To find hotter temps, travel over the equator and trade your woolies for a pair of flip-flops to experience the weather of Perth, Australia. The capital of Western Australia is currently topping the mercury at 99° Fahrenheit (37° Celsius), and it's not even the hottest part of the year yet. Weather like this is not uncommon during the height of the southern hemisphere's summer for the oceanside city, and it's pretty routine to have some fairly low humidity readings as well, making it just a bit more bearable. We wish we could say the same for a few other hot locations; Bangkok and Darwin are both hovering around 92° F with humidity percentages at 75% and 65% respectively. Yeah, just the mere mention makes us a little soggy. jaunted.com

To: average joe who wrote (45679)

1/7/2014 11:26:05 AM

From: Wharf Rat

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Eric

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More "The whole planet is freezing over"
Not even the tiny US is freezing over.

Source: NOAA

Did you know that the Pacific Ocean is larger than all the continents combined?

Weird weather
Sou | 11:25 PM

This week is a week of weird weather. In the USA yesterday, temperatures across the country varied by an apparent 140 degrees Fahrenheit (that's 60 77.7 degrees Celsius). Nice and warm in parts of California and Florida and freezing cold across huge areas.

Source: NOAA

(Much of Oregon and most of California have had the driest year on record.)

In the UK, it's flooding. Waves of up to 10 metres are lashing the coast. According to the BBC these are being caused by " a large, deep depression in the Atlantic which was "whipping waves up" out at sea - and these were coming in as a "large swell".

This video is from a couple of days ago.

While back here in Australia's summer after Australia's hottest year on record, we've had cold nights where I am and lovely weather. But we've been lucky. While we were enjoying mild sunny weather, there was a huge heat wave sweeping over the rest of the continent.

Source: BoM

And then there is the drought - and downpours.

Source: BoM

I figured a dose of real weirdness would help counteract the wacky weirdness I've been reporting from WUWT and Judith Curry. (Not that all the weather is weird.)
blog.hotwhopper.com