Global warming delayed again; Winter of 2010; Citrus crop endangered in Florida

Global warming is once again on hold (as seems to happen every year around this time):

The U.S. East Coast faces the coldest night of the season as frigid air spills south and threatens agriculture in Georgia, Alabama and the orange crop in Florida.

Freeze warnings were posted by the National Weather Service as far south as the Orlando area, which may be as many as 20 degrees below normal tonight, the National Weather Service said. The advisory alerts growers that subfreezing temperatures are imminent and may kill crops or other sensitive vegetation.

H/T Bloomberg

This is no minor event. In addition to biting cold we feel as we walk outside, crops are being harmed and records are being set:

Jacksonville, Florida, may see a record low tonight, Keefe said. The Miami area will see temperatures 12 degrees to 13 degrees below normal for this time of year, Keefe said.

Tonight will be the coldest and offer the greatest danger of crop damage, Keefe said. The next chance for freezing will come next week.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture last month estimated Florida’s orange crop will be 0.7 percent smaller than earlier forecast because adverse weather reduced fruit size.

These conditions are not isolated to the South:

While bitterly cold air grips the Midwest, another shot of extremely cold air is right around the corner. More of the nation's midsection will have to endure the upcoming arctic blast, which will be worsened by fierce biting winds.

A frigid dome of high pressure continues to have a firm grasp on the Midwest this weekend. Temperatures dangerously plummeted down to near -15° in Minneapolis and -35° in International Falls, Minn., early on Sunday morning.

H/T Accuweather.com

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Anyone who briefly checks recent weather history in the U.S. and around the world will know how common these conditions are.
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Also, remember the following stories about records in Vermont, China and elsewhere with well below normal temperatures in Europe, India and the midwest the next time we hear the phrase "global warming" mindlessly repeated by followers of socialism.

Copenhagen; Worldwide blizzard

Last week's climate summit in Copenhagen is today known as a joke. The delegates could barely meet for the storms and cold that ravaged not only America, but Europe.

But with a little MSM/DNC spin, that summit will soon become "historic." The word "Copenhagen" will soon take on the significance of the word "Kyoto" as a weapon in the global warming scam. Obama will use "Copenhagen" as a justification for tremendous crackdowns on the American economy, as he attempts to further weaken us for the benefit of his allies in China, Venezuela and the Moslem/terrorist world.

I link to the stories of the worldwide winter weather so that we can remember the true context in a few years as the MSM/DNC focuses only on some "agreement" that binds the U.S. to achieve true third world status.

October 2009 among the coldest on record; NOAA

According to NOAA, October 2009 was among the coolest on record:

•The average October temperature of 50.8°F was 4.0°F below the 20th Century average and ranked as the 3rd coolest based on preliminary data.

•For the nation as a whole, it was the third coolest October on record. The month was marked by an active weather pattern that reinforced unseasonably cold air behind a series of cold fronts. Temperatures were below normal in eight of the nation's nine climate regions, and of the nine, five were much below normal. Only the Southeast climate region had near normal temperatures for October.

•Statewide temperatures coincided with the regional values as all but six states had below normal temperatures. Oklahoma had its coolest October on record and ten other states had their top five coolest such months.

Winter of 2009-2010; hurricane season; more record cold

Snow is forecast for Pennsylvania. Record cold has hit Washington state and Montana:

We haven't just set new records, we've blown them out of the water. The lows have been 10, 11 and 8 the last three mornings in Missoula, and we've gone at least nine degrees lower than the old record each morning.

Record cold continues in Chicago.

Meanwhile, hurricane season this year has been the quietest in more than a decade.

BBC questions "global warming;" MLB playoffs in Denver; early snow in Chicago.

These stories have all been featured and linked by Drudge, but I am reporting them anyway so that I can access them later more easily.

BBC has begun to ask the question, "What happened to global warming?":

This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.

But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.

Meanwhile in Denver, cold weather threatens the baseball playoffs.

In Chicago, the city is threatened with its earliest snow in history:

What’s worse than the snow is the below freezing temperatures that are expected to accompany it.

I ask once again, please do not destroy our economy in the name of fighting "global warming."

More evidence to disprove global warming

Cold temperature records were set or tied yesterday in Michigan:

It was colder this morning in Port Huron than it has been in more than seven decades.


The Port Huron waste water treatment plant recorded a temperature of 32 degrees at 8 a.m., one degree colder than the record low set Oct. 1, 1935, according to information from the National Weather Service in Oakland County’s White Lake Township.


Amos Dodson, a weather service meteorologist, said no records were broken elsewhere, including at Detroit Metro Airport in Romulus and in Flint.

and in Florida:

In fact, Daytona Beach International Airport reported a record-tying low of 58 degrees at 3:33 a.m. That tied the previous record set back in 2001, when we had another cool start to October.

Orlando officially dropped to 62 degrees, which is just one degree shy of the record, and Melbourne bottomed out at 65 degrees under some of those heat-trapping high clouds.

The cold has caused additional problems in Idaho:

With a quick flip from summer-like weather to freezing cold temperatures, homeless shelters we talked to have never been busier.

While this evidence is anecdotal, the evidence presented by global warming advocates is fraudulent and nonexistent.