Polar Vortex 2014

My right wing friends are filling up my facebook with the reasoning that since we've not heard the phrase 'polar vortex' before now, it stands to reason that it's yet another media propagated lefty lie.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/rush-limbaugh-global-warming-polar-vortex-hoax-101792.html

idk, seems more like the weather channel-esque tendency where every major weather event has to have a name now, and they were just lucky enough that there was a meteorological term that worked

p sure the phrase will soon turn up in backpacker rap, most likely rhymed with "cerebral cortex"

other hyperbolic weather phrases from the 21st century

SUPER STORM SANDY

adding an e to the front of tornado ratings TO TAKE IT TO THE EXTREME

ie the tornado in moore oklahoma was an EF5 instead of an F5.

forecast for NYC Saturday: 55 degrees and rain

I'm going to make a grocery run noe, it's 12

Let's dust off this link: http://ifglobalwarmingisrealthenwhyisitcold.blogspot.com/?m=1

egyptian food cart in chelsea didn't make it today : /

13 here, really not so bad when you think about it

I am thinking about it, and it really is so bad.

bout to go out, we'll see if that cuts the mustard for me

brilliant

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rpiegz3et3E/S2EP3FeEYzI/AAAAAAAAALI/yGktwwyuK0w/s400/33o18ud.jpg

http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/1504953_10152005032682933_1446939051_n.jpg

cool that yall are finally getting a taste of what a Real Winter is like

I'm finding these cold threads so confusing w Fahrenheit. why when it goes below 0 does it get closer to C?

think of it like the dirty old man rule

F = 1.8C + 32

I made a nice graph but workplace websense prevents me from uploading anything to the web, so you'll just have to imagine it.

I'm finding these cold threads so confusing w Fahrenheit. why when it goes below 0 does it get closer to C?
--the Bronski Review (Trayce)

This is the thing, in positive temperatures I'm fine with either but in negative I find myself asking but yes is that c or f, then one it goes under minus 40 I know what's happened but it still doesn't really go in

As a middle-aged Brit, I'm OK with either but above 10C, I do occasionally mentally convert to F. Negative temperatures in F seem ridiculous. Unless you really want to reference the freezing point of brine.

"It's cold enough to freeze BRINE today!" "Do you see the BRINE icicles on the side of that building?" "Don't slip on that patch of black BRINE." Etc.

http://i.imgur.com/ucOQh.jpg

just started roof shoveling at my folks' place - that is a whole other ballgame, damn.

Fun fact: -40 F and -40 C are the same temperature!

Yes plz

http://static02.mediaite.com/geekosystem/uploads/2014/01/Poehler-Vortex-320x240.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/1e65T8k.jpg

well it should be a little warmer in there shouldn't it

so this thing is coming back for more now?

only one way to combat repeated assaults by polar vortex...

http://www.thepetcollective.tv/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/sharknado-vs-polar-vortex.jpg

lol, the Upper East Side got shafted in plowing! The socialists HAVE arrived.

@pareene
in addition to plowing I suggest we bulldoze the UES

It's snowing in Austin! Then raining again, then sleeting, but still. No work tomorrow!

Yeah, tell me about it! My son has the day off from school, but alas, my work is not cancelled.

Lol, my firms Houston office closed because of the weather.

-14 with the wind today in Cleveland. Cleveland Public Schools are closed, along with some of the close 'burbs, but here I sit at work. Wish we had a work-from-home policy.

. . . I guess we do, actually. "No working from home."

Aw, sorry you didn't get a snow day too Moodles. I slept in (way in... 12:30) and now I am going to brave the elements to find some tacos.

I was able to chill out at home in my PJs, but still was very busy work-wise

that whole telecommuting thing is a bitch!

planning to corral the family in a bit to go check out the new Whole Foods at The Domain. Will wear a sweater.

. . . I guess we do, actually. "No working from home."

Ha, my firm's policy as well. Which is mostly fine, being an architect does rely on a great deal of collaboration, but its tough since my wife's job has a very flexible work from home policy.

unless some of you are posting from the dakotas or alberta or something i don't want to hear too much bitching

we're already well over our yearly average for days below zero, and we've had these great 'warm' blasts where it'll get up to 30-some degrees for a day, just to snow.

http://blogs.mprnews.org/updraft/2014/01/friday-clipper-and-warming-trend-wintery-numbers-piling-up/?from=weather

unless some of you are posting from the dakotas or alberta or something i don't want to hear too much bitching

Um, pretty sure it's been much colder here than much of Canada or Dakotas. Alberta hit 50 today.

i'm sorry josh but that post qualifies as bitching

Can I bitch that I'd rather be in Alberta than here?

Just read that this coming Tuesday's low (excluding wind chill) is on track be lower than anything from the previous wave of this bullshit.

lol goole

Don't live in Canada or Dakotas so didn't come to bitch...but to gloat. It's 65 and sunny for 40th day in a row, bitches.

Please forgive me for that. Chicago guy spending 1st winter in new locale.

hahaha, you're right! looks like snow is in the forecast again next tuesday. awesome!

i am timing my walks to the grocery store based on whether the temperature for the day is positive, i feel like laura ingalls wilder if she had grocery stores

goddamn snow

the weather continues to be schizophrenic down in Austin: freezing rain and sleet on Friday, sunny in the 70s on Sunday and then back to freezing rain today. Annoyingly, my son's school is delayed by 2 hours this morning, so I have to skip out in the middle of work to get him there.

I take that back, school is now cancelled

I don't have gloves so I put a sock on my hand to use the gas pump.

The guy was 69 years old and working for fucking fed ex and fucking froze to death

i have my window open now. Crazy weather.

hang in there man, stay cool

I was hoping we'd get more of a reprieve after last week, but apparently Chicago is going to get a massive ice storm tonight? I keep seeing phrases like "travel impossible" and "tree and power line damage likely" in reports.

jfc
i heard one inch of ice

hope travel is not impossible because my class tonight was cancelled last week thanks to this garbage and i would like to get the show on the gd road

Yeah, I'm hoping it doesn't get that bad.

Glad you survived the power outage. Had a similar nerve-wracking several hours that afternoon.

meanwhile NYC is getting a 60 degree day

the seasons and earth are dying

over here we have frozen the earth so that it can be reanimated in the future once scientists discover a cure