The skies at Scott Base, Antarctica are clear with temperatures near or above freezing. 

Harsh cold expected to linger in Midwest

 

February 3, 2007

Wyandotte, Michigan

Photographer states :: A blizzardous squall accompanied the arctic front in southeast MI...it is BITTERLY cold!!!

Cold weather blasts Michigan, causes 50-car pileups
Santiago Esparza / The Detroit News

There is a wind chill advisory in effect through Sunday as the wind teams up with dropping temperatures to make it feel like 20 degrees below zero, according to the National Weather Service in White Lake Township.

"It's real bad," said meteorologist Karen Kahl. "It will stay like that until Tuesday when we have high temperatures of 11 to 15 degrees. That will be the beginning of a rebound for us."

There is a lake effect snow advisory in Oakland, Livingston and Washtenaw counties today and the weather service expects three to six inches of snow to fall in those areas before Sunday night. That will mean low visibility on roads, Kahl said.

Temperatures today are expected to drop to slightly above 0 degrees, according to AccuWeather. There is a blizzard warning on the western side of the state until 10 p.m. today because there are winds gusting at up to 47 mph.

Today's hockey game between the Grand Rapids Griffins and the Peoria Rivermen was postponed because of the weather. It was the fourth time in 11 years that nasty weather forced the Griffins to reschedule a game, team officials said.

Michigan State Police dispatchers said as of 5 p.m. today, they had not received many calls about car accidents. However, they are getting reports across Metro Detroit of vehicles breaking down.

In Kent County, sheriff's deputies and Michigan State Police troopers handled two separate 50-car pileups today. Investigators blamed them on blizzard-like conditions.

Several people were hurt, but none had life-threatening injuries, a sheriff's dispatcher said.

You can reach Santiago Esparza at (313) 222-2127 or sesparza@detnews.com.

Storms' survivors try to pick up the pieces

 

February 4, 2007

DeLand, Florida

After twisters killed at least 20, the grieving continued but the promises of hope and rebuilding came as crews and volunteers descended on Central Florida to help.

This is the damage at a trailer park in Florida from the tornadoes. Trailer parks are common in Florida and while the weather service did the best it could in alerting residence of the danger minutes before it happened, there was no place for most of these victims to go anyway.

What good is it to alert people if they haven't got severe weather shelters immediately available. Providing those shelters is not an easy task. Florida is sandy soil and what would occur if during a hurricane, when there is a chance of severe flooding people thought they would be safe in an underground shelter? They would die of drowning.

All this could have been averted with responsible government rather than reactionary government. All the sympathy holy men, the media and society can exert will never reduce the fact these people died without good cause and because of societal negligence of forecast disasters by scientists.

This event is NOT a 'freak' occurance and to assume so is ludicrous in the face of it getting worse with repeated events of greater magnitude.

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Same as before. Lower elevations seeing above freezing temperatures while the higher elevations are freezing. Given that, what will happen when the melt off of Antarctica at lower elevations occurs without the abatement of Human Induced Global Warming and the Blue Ice is exposed to the tropospheric temperatures. Will it benignly 'melt down' into melt water and gently run off, or will it crash into the oceans causing tsunamis globally? Do we really want to find out? In this satellite it is completely obvious WAIS is taking most of the heat and never is without above zero temperatures.

The highest humidity is at King Sejong, Antarctica at 99% where the temperatures is 2 degrees above freezing on the Celcius scale. The lowest temperatures are at Dome C, Antarctica at -42 C and at Vostok where it is -38 C with a humidity of 37%.

Here again there is a phenomina one would not expect in that the majority of WAIS in the southern hemisphere during summer and Glacier Bay in the northern hemisphere during winter are both temperate and melting.

The weather at Scott Base, New Zealand, Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:

  

Morning Papers - concluded

The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:

Temperature : 34 °F / 1 °C

Conditions : Overcast

Humidity : 87%

Dew Point : 30 degrees Fahrenheit / -1 degrees Celcius

Wind : Calm

Pressure : 30.09 inches / 1019 hPa

Visibility : 1.5 miles / 2.4 kilometers

UV : 0 out of 16

Clouds : Overcast 100 feet / 30 meters
(Above ground level)