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Bigsmoke
12-07-2013, 01:59 PM
CALIFORNIA

Four homeless people have died of hypothermia in the San Francisco Bay Area since last week, authorities said.

One victim was found dead Nov. 28, and the other deaths were discovered in the last two days, Santa Clara County sheriff's Lt. Dave Lera said Friday. Lera said three of the victims died at homeless encampments in San Jose, while a fourth died in a garage "with the door opened."

Temperatures in San Jose fell to 30 degrees Friday morning, breaking the record low of 32 degrees for that date, which was set in 1904.



TEXAS

Traffic was at a standstill for several hours at a time on ice-laden stretches of Interstate 35 in North Texas. Officials with the Texas Department of Transportation said "several miles" of the interstate had been backed up for 24 hours.

More than 117,000 electric customers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area were without power Saturday morning.

More than 350 departing flights from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport had been cancelled on Saturday morning. About 3,330 passengers stayed the night in airport terminals.

Temperatures were forecast to stay below freezing through the weekend, meaning residents may still have to contend with icy roads.




MINNESOTA

Some cities in Minnesota canceled weekend parades because of the bitter cold.

Highs Saturday were forecast to range from 5 to 10 below in northern Minnesota to around 5 above in the far southeast. St. Cloud's Winter Nights and Lights Parade and Santa Fun Run were canceled because of the dangerously cold temperatures in the forecast.


wow

http://www.krqe.com/weather/us-wx-news/statebystate-look-at-frigid-blast-hitting-us_90600877

fsvr54
12-07-2013, 02:37 PM
Wish we got a little cooler weather in Miami, it's 82 degrees right now.

gigantes
12-07-2013, 02:51 PM
This is the first time I can remember since I've moved to Maine that we've had snow stay on the ground for multiple days before Christmas. It's snowed at least 6 times too, very odd.

Temps are average though.
in that scenerio it's actually normal and predictable in terms of GCC theory.

IIRC, idea is that with the larger number of warm air masses, larger numbers of moisture-holding masses are created. and since they move around, they will often drift to a colder region and then precipitate out.

warmer global temp probably means the amount of movement increases, too.

DuMa
12-07-2013, 03:31 PM
as a snowboarder. FYCKA YEA

mlh1981
12-07-2013, 04:02 PM
Wish we got a little cooler weather in Miami, it's 82 degrees right now.


Speaking the truth (I live in St. Pete).

I'll take this over the cold and snow any day (which is why I moved here from Ohio), but its too muggy out for this time of year.

MadeFromDust
12-07-2013, 04:09 PM
It's in the mid 30's where I'm at GADZOOKS

9erempiree
12-07-2013, 05:49 PM
It's been cold as heck the last few nights. Freezing point here.

Meticode
12-07-2013, 05:53 PM
La Crosse, Wisconsin here...was 1 degree with a negative 10 windchill last night. This morning I got up and it was -4 with a -15 windchill.

Bigsmoke
12-07-2013, 07:55 PM
La Crosse, Wisconsin here...was 1 degree with a negative 10 windchill last night. This morning I got up and it was -4 with a -15 windchill.

Yuck

Myth
12-07-2013, 08:34 PM
Doing a bar crawl tonight. Why does it have to be the coldest night of the year? At least it is Cali, so it is only close to freezing rather than literally freezing.