Can owning guns effect your house values?

You know how pedophilia is listed at the local police department for people moving into a neighborhood? Well. Now if you are purchasing a home, canvas the public records to know if your neighbors are hoarding guns and if any of them are capable of killing many people in one clip.

Map: Where are the gun permits in your neighborhood? (click here)

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ROCKLAND COUNTY (click here)

This map shows pistol permits registered in Rockland County, which are issued for life and do not need to be renewed. Zoom in and out for more information and click on a dot to see details of a permit. Rockland County splits permit holders into two categories: 

Active (blue): Permit holders that have purchased a firearm or updated the information on a permit in the past five years. 

Historic (purple): Permit holders with no activity in the past five years. Permit holders who have died or moved out of the area may not have updated their permit records, so some locations marked with a purple dot may not represent a current permit holder.

Do it. Ask for a review of the neighborhood for gun permits and weapons purchased during the closing on the home. If people are smart, they'll beat their potential buyers to the information and list it with the home they are selling.

It would make a difference to me. Someone is thinking out there. Why live next to a nut case that will kill firefighters and burn down your home.

He still has a fever?

Sorry to hear that. I am glad he is enjoying all his guests.

I am sure the doctors have thought of everything, but, if antibiotics are not doing the job, my only suspect is the immune system itself. 

Are all his gamma globulin levels normal? I can't help but think perhaps there needs to be an assessment of his immune system if it hasn't been done already.

An infusion of gamma globulin might do it. This is nothing to say there is a disease or medicine suppressing his immune system. His age alone challenges that reality.

I wish him well. Sorry, to hear he is still fighting a fever. That can't be much fun. 

He is a very handsome man, isn't he? Even at his advanced age, he maintains his good looks. His hair is not completely grey in this picture.

I think if I have to choose a word it would be dashing. He looks very dashing in his senior years.

You want to stop rising health care costs?

Push down from the top.

If MDs have to pay more taxes they won't raise their rates to their patients. They'll open their doors to Medicare patients. Because the lower tax rates they pay at the top of the tax structure is incentive to raise their rates. They make more money by charging their customers more, they pay less taxes to the USA.

Think about it.

There costs haven't gone up that much. They certainly aren't paying it to their staff. So, why the increase the race to the top of the tax structure?

The Bush Tax Cuts have to end.

"Kick the Can" (click here) was once a child's game. I think I want to leave it there. It is not a good expression of what is happening in the USA.

No more politics with the tax structure of the USA. The Democrats can't wimp out on this. And, yes, they look like wimps when they allow extensions of these tax cuts. We need to get on with governing and have the Middle Class fight for better wages. 

I would love to have the tax cuts saved for anyone earning $250,000 per year, but, we simply can't allow it if it means the wealthy aren't paying their share of the tax burden. The wealthy have been indulged for a very long time. Where has it gotten us? We need to put the country back together and we can't do that with extension after extension, after extension.

What is occurring is Republican's 'Carrot 'n' Stick.' They allow unemployment to be extended if the Bush Tax Cuts are extended. Well, guess what? With increased revenue we could afford to extend unemployment anyway.

The Republicans will allow all kinds of Democratic soft targets to be provided for so long as the Bush Tax Cuts remain. Well, if we had tax increases we could afford all the appropriate soft targets anyway.

The Republicans chronically take the Middle Class and Poor as hostages and get away with it. That has to end.

We have a lot to do in this country. We have gun control to legislate, we have immigration law to change, we have an entire generation without employment and the country is tired of the Republicans holding all those people hostage for the sake of The Bush Tax Cuts.

The Debt Ceiling is coming. We need additional taxes to stop the ever needed and repeated request for increases. When the USA Treasury has reasonable revenues and is recovering so the Debt Ceiling doesn't have to be raised anymore; the Democrats will finally be able to govern and legislate. The politic dialogue in the USA always surrounds the issue of taxes, some kind of hideous cliff and debt ceilings. It is time to end it. 

The citizens of the USA are not hostages. They are hard working people raising families with hope for the future. They need their stability back permanently and know where they stand so they can plan. This is crazy. It is as crazy as the current gun laws. 

The nation needs to move forward. It's is time to do exactly that. When the bell chimes at midnight the USA Treasury has an income again. That is not so bad. Seriously.

No more holding the promises made to generations for a secure aging and longevity. We need to do this. Seriously.

Rupert Murdoch late to the party, but, at least he came.

'NY Xmas ruined by lunatic shooting 4 firemen, (click here) killing two. Shooter killed before, jailed, later released on medical grounds. Must wake up,' he wrote just after noon in the East Coast.


Perhaps Mr. Murdoch knows first hand that living in the USA is not the Australian Outback.

He probably hasn't had the opportunity to visit many of the parks in the USA, both State and National. They are beautiful. They sincerely don't need to be tainted by gunfire. The National Parks are staffed. He should definitely take the time to get to know some of them. Yellowstone is frequently a favorite starting place. 

I worry about the staff in the National Parks. They don't need tourists and campers with guns.

Line of Duty Deaths: 28 (click here)

Gunfire: 8

Last year there was sincere violence in one our National Parks by someone with an assault weapon. Our Park Rangers are very dedicated as are the agents from US Fish and Wildlife. We sincerely don't need to make it any more difficult for them to do their jobs.

...When the suspect reached Ranger Anderson's roadblock, he made a U-turn, exited his vehicle, and opened fire. Ranger Anderson was shot before she was able to exit her patrol car.


After being shot, Ranger Anderson radioed for help as the suspect fled on foot. Responding units attempting to reach Ranger Anderson were held at bay for approximately 90 minutes as the suspect continued to fire on them. The suspect's vehicle was recovered with additional weapons and body armor inside....

She died not of her initial wounding, but, because the shooter outgunned the other officers. Does anyone actually believe allowing weapons in the parks is going to change that dynamic?

It is the guns that are the problem, not the people.

Mobile Alabama Tornado 12-25-2012

Posted Mar 02, 2012

By mleyba
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A Alabama (click here) tornadoes reportedly destroyed several houses in northern Alabama as storms threatened more twisters across the region Friday, two days after a storm system killed 13 people in the Midwest and South.
There was no immediate word on any injuries from local emergency officials. But the Huntsville-Madison County Emergency Management Office says ambulances are responding to neighborhoods near Huntsville....

By LEEZEL TANGLAO (@leezeltanglao) , BEN FORER (@BenForer) and DEVIN DWYER(@devindwyer)

April 29, 2011

President Obama (click here for video - thank you) and the first lady surveyed storm damage and met with families of victims today in Tuscaloosa, Ala., one of the cities hardest hit by this week's outbreak of tornadoes that have left at least 318 people dead across eight states.

"I've never seen devastation like this," Obama said, standing amid the rubble left in the tornadoes' wake. "It is heartbreaking."Obama spent almost two hours on ground, driving in his motorcade through a hard-hit commercial area to see demolished stores and businesses. He later walked through a residential neighborhood that was littered with mangled cars, tree limbs and personal possessions.,...

No one will find appalling video on how this is an unusual tragedy on Christmas Day at FOX News. They like to point to other tornadoes that happened in the past on Christmas Day. They want to pacify the idea this is due to Human Induced Global Warming. FOX does that to keep their viewership under educated to the real dangers in their lives. In my estimate, FOX News is a real danger in their lives, too.

The need to pacify for political purposes is attempted through legitimate information from the National Weather Service as if the government endorses their political agenda.

From the National Weather Service in Washington, DC (click here)

Notable U.S. tornado events with at least one F2 (minimum 113-mph) tornado between Dec. 24 and Dec. 26:

All the Christmas Tornadoes that occured according to this list did so since the 1960s and the high increases in CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2). But, no one will hear that from Murdoch's millionaires. The Murdoch millionaires customize their content to 'fit the political spin' they pump out, they don't put into context where the truth lies and God Forbid they ever call a scientist legitimate. PhD or no PhD, they are all quacks.

No more Bush Tax Cuts

December 24, 2012 7:19 PM

Reid is now working, sources say, on a smaller package (click here) than the comprehensive deal the president was working on with Boehner. The package would prevent tax rates from rising for middle-class families and perhaps cut some spending and tie up a few other loose ends.

So far Reid has not been consulting with Republicans on the bill. Technically, any bill involving taxing authority must originate in the House, not the Senate, but Reid could easily take a revenue-raising House bill that has already passed, gut it, and use it as a vehicle for his fiscal cliff legislation....

Just because the Republicans in the House can't get their act together to do their job, they are screaming for 'pressure relief' and to pass THEIR responsibility to the Senate. That says only one thing, the GOP is not capable of governing. They don't know how, they haven't got the priorities to govern and they need to be replaced.

Tuesday December 25, 2012 5:36 AM

In a democratic system with separated powers, (click here) two houses of Congress, split between the parties, a normal party accepts that compromise is the only way to legislate. A normal party takes into account election results. A normal party recognizes when the other side has made real concessions. A normal party takes responsibility.

By all of these measures, the Republican majority that Speaker John Boehner purports to lead is abnormal. That is the meaning of his catastrophic failure to gather the votes for his “Plan B” proposal on the “fiscal cliff.” Many of his most radical members believe they have a right to use any means at their disposal to impose their views on the country, even if they are only a minority in Congress.

There may, however, be good news in the disarray: The right wing of the Republican House has chosen to marginalize itself from any serious negotiations. The one available majority for action, especially on budgets, is a coalition uniting most Democrats with those Republicans who still hold the old-fashioned view that they were elected to help run the country.

To avert a fiscal nightmare in the short run, this potential majority needs to be allowed to work its will. The result may well be a modestly more progressive solution than President Obama offered Boehner, a deal with somewhat fewer cuts and more revenue. That’s the price the right wing will have to pay for refusing to govern....

Eric Cantor's favorite mind speak dodge is how the nation understands a budget and how they have to live within that budget and so does the nation.

How many Americans openly consent to INCOME / REVENUE decreases while increasing EXPENDITURES? Well, that is exactly what the Bush Tax Cuts did. They increased expenditures out of control with two wars, while cutting taxes to increase the wealth of their cronies. Now, if Cantor wants to talk about how REAL households actually work, it isn't by cutting revenues to purchase a new home.

The revenues to the USA Treasury have decreased since the Republican majorities of the past whereby they victimized the Middle Class, destroyed job growth and economic growth. They instead saw a way clear to allow outsourcing for their own wealth while creating human rights violations in the USA and internationally. The human rights infringement is nothing to people like Eric Cantor. He is a human rights offender for seeking to cut benefits to those least able to afford them, in the face of increasing the wealth to himself and cronies.

President Obama stated, "I propose to raise taxes on any income over $250,000. People just like me." So don't tell me for one minute the House Republicans are not protecting their own incomes. Except, for those like Joe Walsh that have child support arrears exceeding his annual income as a Representative. Child Support is a tax deductible, which, might in itself be a reason for parenthood.

You know, those that want to remove all deductions from the income tax code worry about the house deduction. There are many others that might actually be a reason to keep families together.

But, the political mind speak of the Right Wing is irrational. They cater to criminal intent within our society. They back liberal guns laws and purport that every American should be armed 24/7 for the very spontaneous occurrence a mass murderer shows up with a Bushmaster. That is criminal. They are backing criminals. The shooter can get his hands on guns with liberal guns laws whereby Mommies and Sisters can purchase them legally. Those laws back up the criminal intent by people THE CURRENT LAW states is suppose to exclude from obtaining guns.

The Republican mind speak states if the wealthy are wealthier they will spawn jobs somehow by magic. Then they state, if they are taxed they will leave the country. SO WHAT!!!!!!!!! They aren't doing anyone any good anyway. They already offshore money and jobs by outsourcing, who actually needs them? We would have a net job increase if they leave. By all means, GO ! 

Take the Republicans unable to govern that are basically protecting no one but themselves because according to them the wealthy are leaving, WITH YOU. The emigrating wealthy will need allies in other countries to run for office and win on the basis they will create jobs by lower taxes. I know the exact continent they should emigrate to. It only takes a few years for citizenship and all those that hate the taxes of the USA will be back in business and at the top of the "Global Corrupt List" again! They should go and don't wait for the tax increases to pass, it is killing us!

Example: Donald Trump, the man who make running for President the best free advertising he ever had. He doesn't care about being President than the Man in the Moon. He is making his tax emigration a reality.

Michael Forbes, (click here) who opposed Donald Trump's plan to build a luxury golf course on his family's land, was honored as his country's 'Top Scot.'

...This fall, the film that made him a star, “You’ve Been Trumped,” aired on BBC....

Trump needs to clean up his act, both environmentally and politically. We know he is a better man than this; at least; we always thought so. Then again, all evidence shows the exact outsourcing trend we have seen with all those given the Bush Tax Cuts. They don't create jobs in the USA, they take it elsewhere. I am sure someday, Trump expects to have holdings in Beijing.

...Donald Trump has banned Glenfiddich Whisky from his resorts after Michael Forbes, one of the tycoon’s most well-known opponents, won top honors at an awards ceremony sponsored by the Scottish liquor brand.

“Glenfiddich should be ashamed,” (click here) Trump told the Guardian, claiming that Forbes, who famously refused to sell his farm to Trump’s golf resort in Scotland, won the “Top Scot” award last week because Glenfiddich was jealous of the billionaire’s inhouse whisky brand.

“I hereby call for a boycott on drinking Glenfiddich products,” Trump said, “because there is no way a result such as this could have been made by the Scottish people.”

Glenfiddich is one of several spirits produced by William Grant & Sons, which also makes Milagro Tequila, Hendrick's Gin and Virgin Vodka. The company maintains it had no influence on the “Top Scot” award, which was open to a public vote, according to the event’s marketing materials. “The person receiving the greatest number of votes, cast by the people of Scotland, wins the award,” the firm said in a statement released on Tuesday....

I like Glenfiddich. I especially like their Hendrick's Gin (click here). There is a local pub that uses it in their CUSTOM brew called "Murray's Cocktail." He mixes it with Cointeau, bitters and tonic. I love that cocktail and ask for it every time. I've given up my Tanqueray gimlet for Murrays' Cocktail. The environmentally conscience seek alternatives for those that seek them too.

Murray's Cocktail (click here)  - It is number 6 on the menu.

 Hendrick's Gin, Cointreau, Dash of Bitters, Tonic

Just as a side note. On Christmas Day, "Phil's on Front Street" served free meals to everyone who came through the door. (No alcohol. I offered to pay and they said put the money in the fish bowl. Children were in the restaurant with their family. No alcohol served.) Menu-Coffee or Soda, Soup or Salad, Turkey or Beef Dinner with vegetables and bread and a choice of pies.

Anyone. Anyone at all seeking a meal and friendship on Christmas Day was welcome. The place was packed.

If guests felt compelled to pay, they were told to put their monies in a fish bowl that would then be given to the local food pantry.

Live entertainment, too. A pianist and drummer. Christmas music abounded. One of the regular waitresses has an incredible voice so we all insisted she sing from time to time. No tipping, except, for the fish bowl.

Are we ready to be a nation again, rather than armed encampments within neighborhoods.

..."It was a trap set (click here) by Mr. Spengler, who laid in wait and shot first responders," Pickering told a news conference.

Separately, a police officer in Wisconsin and another in Texas were shot and killed on Monday, according to police and media reports.

The attacks on first responders came 10 days after one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history that left 20 students and six adults dead at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, and intensified the debate about gun control in the United States....

The nation needs to track down the place the guns were obtained, either legally or illegally. There needs to be an end to this violence. When people die due to gun violence there needs to be complete investigation as there is in Connecticut to track down the people involved in placing those weapons in the hands of killers. No more NRA nonsense in arming the nation to stop each other. This is crazy.

The sister of Spengler may have purchased the weapons for him even if he could not get them himself because he once killed and serviced his time. The entire dynamics in the country is wrong. Finding how these killers got their weapons and ending that access as well prosecuting all those along the way will provide a venue of control that will increase exponentially once it is a nation wide policy.

The way guns flow into and out of the USA is insane. We are creating more problems domestically and out southern border than we solve. One would think the states along the border with Mexico would have the toughest gun laws on the books, but, instead they permit liberal access. Jan Brewer can complain all she wants, but, the gun laws in Arizona enhance the problem and does not solve it.

Two firefighters were shot dead and two others remain hospitalized. (click here) One of the weapons recovered was a .233-caliber semiautomatic Bushmaster rifle with flash suppression, the same make and caliber gun used in the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn.

Police Chief Gerald Pickering said Tuesday the remains were found in the charred house that 62-year-old William Spengler shared with his 67-year-old sister, Cheryl. A medical examiner will need to determine the identity.

The ex-con who lured firefighters to their deaths in a blaze of gunfire left a typewritten note saying he wanted to burn down the neighborhood and "do what I like doing best, killing people," police said Tuesday....

In Connecticut it was the shooters mother, in New York it was probably his sister. There is no other way to limiting access by shooter, except, to limit the guns on the street. 

Bushmaster. Interesting name. I doubt it indicates a sincere desire for hunting.

See this movie. It is magnificent. The actors, the authenticity and the 'textures' of the quality of life. (click here for offical site - thank you)

Mrs. Lincoln matters and she makes an impression. She is a full partner to her husband. Their dedication to the country, justice and the faith they believe leads them down a path of honor to human life.

The actors, every one of them, were absolutely incredible. They make history come alive in a way not witnessed on the screen before.

...NORAD, a joint U.S.-Canada command (click here) responsible for protecting the skies over both nations, says its Santa-tracking rite was born of a humble mistake in a newspaper ad in 1955.

The ad in a Colorado Springs newspaper invited children to call Santa but inadvertently listed the phone number for the Continental Air Defense Command, NORAD's predecessor, also based in Colorado Springs.

Officers played along. Since then, NORAD Tracks Santa has gone global, posting updates for nearly 1.2 million Facebook fans and 104,000 Twitter followers.

Spokeswoman 1st Lt. Stacey Fenton said that as of midnight Tuesday, trackers answered more than 111,000 calls, breaking last year's record of 107,000....

Santa won't be coming down the chimney tonight.

We are pulling for you, sir. I am sure the room is more than festive.

December 24, 2012

HOUSTON -- Doctors (click here) say former President George H.W. Bush needs to “build up his energy” before he can be released from a Houston hospital.

Methodist Hospital spokesman George Kovacik said in an email statement Sunday that doctors are still optimistic that the 88-year-old Bush will make a full recovery...

It takes more than an apology.

0.1 alcohol level

By Abby Ohlheiser

Posted Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, at 8:34 AM ET

Republican Senator Mike Crapo (click here) has apologized after his DUI arrest in Alexandria, Va. on Sunday morning....

Somebody needs to check the draws in his desk at the Senate. What is his voting record on these issues?

DWI laws have gotten to be very tough in this country. Some states require driver's license to be suspended at the first offense.

In Virginia:

Once you are convicted, (click here) you'll endure another round of consequences―more serious ones.

A first offense DUI brings a mandatory fine of at least $250. Your driver's license will be revoked for one year, and you'll be required to install an ignition interlock device

I am sure Senator Crapo will not declare his innocence. I mean he isn't going to try to say a Virginia police officer didn't conduct himself right or something like that. It is very difficult to challenge the tests police provide as proof of the violation of the law.

Virginia lets folks off easy. In North Carolina, the first offense requires at least 24 hours in jail.

That "ignition lock device" is a real charm, too. It is expensive to install and to maintain. I have been told to undergo the "device" is nearly worst than revocation of the license.

Can Crapo actually function in the Senate or should he consider resigning. Oh, I know, this is simply too much Ho, Ho, Ho. 

"W"rong.

It clearly illustrates a person whom represents the people of Idaho can't control himself when enjoying a holiday spirit.

You know, Crapo, you have to watch the petroleum industry. They throw you right into scandal. Good 'ole, Mineral and Mining Management. If the petroleum industry can't corrupt the administration anymore, I suppose Senators will do. It was a crony party, right Crapo? Any women?

Ruby Ridge is not the same thing. It is believed evidence was destroyed when that occurred. It is absolutely not the same thing. Ruby Ridge was an isolated encampment. This is high caliper weapons being turned on people from random places. There is no prediction to this. This is not Ruby Ridge. That is always something the Right Wing Gun Nuts draw on as an example of government overreach. That ain't it!

This photo taken Aug. 7, 2012 shows Sara Weaver, left, and her husband, Marc, at their ranch outside Kalispell, Mont. Sara Weaver has finally forgiven the federal agents who 20 years ago shot her mother and younger brother to death during the siege at Idaho's Ruby Ridge. (AP Photo/Nicholas K. Geranios

KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — When Sara Weaver (click here) saw her father Randy struck in the shoulder by a government sniper's bullet in the Idaho wilderness in August 1992, she began to sprint back to the family's cabin on a mountaintop called Ruby Ridge.

As the 16-year-old closed in, her mother, Vicki, opened the cabin door and stood behind it, holding Sara Weaver's 10-month-old sister in her arms. Just then, a sniper's bullet struck her mother in the head, killing her.

For the next nine days, the surviving Weavers holed up in the cabin while hundreds of federal agents laid siege in a standoff that helped spark an anti-government patriot movement that grew to include the Oklahoma City bombing....

Weaver was a victim of a rigid system and the mistakes it made along the way while others wrongly accused Weaver of illegal content in his life. The circumstances to that and to what is occurring in the USA today are vastly different. Any action by the government against violent anarchy leading to the death of innocent Americans has nothing to do with the dynamics of Ruby Ridge. 

Protecting the Second Amendment is about living within the limits, not existing in the extremes. Americans should not live in an armed camp unable to carry out their lives.

Who believes this man knows anything about the Second Amendment and protecting it? 

He is pushing an agenda that is bringing the USA to the brink of Marshall Law. 

Anyone call that protection of the Second Amendment? I don't.

Poor man is scared he won't get his bonus this year.

The CEO of the NRA states nothing but misinformation. He cares little about the people of the USA.

He is a CEO. What else is there to say? Profits first, people dead last. Children are simply collateral damage to him.

He is attempting to water down the idea these shooters cannot be stopped. They can't. They kill themselves after they slaughter others. What weapon does a police officer at a school need to stop a gunman that can dismantle a locked and secure door with the very gun he used to slaughter children and their educators? The guy is as crazy as what is happening in this country!

Deepest sympathies to the families of the dead.

Exponential. Too many guns on the street. Firefighters? They save people's lives. What have we got another Branch Dividian mess or what? Firefighters arrest no one. This is ridiculous. Who is dead in the fires? What was someone trying to hide? I can't help but wonder if President Obama can tighten up the ATF rules/laws from the Executive Branch that would define some of these caches of weapons as illegal. It is the step before Marshall Law. Dead serious about that statement.

4 firefighters shot, 2 killed at Webster, N.Y., fire (click here)

11:03a.m. EST December 24, 2012

Victoria Freile and Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY

A gunman shot and killed at least two firefighters responding to a house fire at a Rochester suburb early Monday.

Two other firefighters were in guarded condition at Strong Memorial Hospital with gunshot wounds, according to a hospital spokeswoman, The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported.

Fire Marshal Rob Boutillier said the blaze was allowed to spread to two other houses until the area is secured.

Webster police Chief Gerald Pickering said "one or more shooters" fired at the firefighters when they arrived at the scene near the shore of Lake Ontario. The attacker was still at large at mid-morning.

WHEC-TV reported that by midmorning firefighters were attacking the blaze, which had spread to three homes and a vehicle.

The gunman open fire on the first firefighters to respond to the call around 5:45 a.m. ET, striking one in the backside....

A SWAT team escorted some residents to a bus that took them from the neighborhood.

That picture is Main Street America with very Un-American events happening to it. Anarchy is not an option in the USA. We are a civilized country where people live in security and happiness. I don't call any of this happiness or security by any stretch of the imagination. Homes in the USA are not suppose to be armed camps to protect themselves from neighbors.

There is dense cloud cover over the entire country.

December 24, 2012
11:30:01z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of North and West Hemisphere (click here for 12 hour loop - thank you)

There is also three vortexes.

The Weather Channel 
Current Weather Map
December 24, 2012
12:04 gmt

The troughs between the vortexes are high pressure, otherwise, the USA has low pressure systems dominating the weather.

But, to note, regardless of the cloud cover there is little to no precipitation.

The Southeast is receiving rain. It is directly under a vortex.

The Weather Channel 
National Doppler Radar
December 24, 2012 
12:22 gmt

It is easier to see the weather on this map. The NORMAL standard for weather without precipitation is a high pressure system. That is not occurring here.



High Pressure Systems are not dominated by dense clouds cover.

The cloud cover in the UNISYS Water Vapor satellite above is where the water vapor is located in the upper troposphere. The precipitation is not reaching the ground.

Wet weather could turn severe by Tuesday night (click here)

By Mike Morris
The Atlanta Journal Constitution

“A strong storm system will be developing over the lower Mississippi Valley Tuesday, bringing widespread rain and isolated to scattered thunderstorms to much of north and central Georgia Christmas Day through Wednesday morning,” the National Weather Service said in a statement early Monday....

...“At this time, the main concerns will be isolated tornadoes as well as strong damaging winds in excess of 60 mph....

The Weather Channel Current Temperatures December 24, 2012      12:15 gmt

In the northern areas of the USA where snow has fallen in the past weeks, it was followed up by high temperatures. I have personally noted the subliming of the snow when the higher temperatures moved in over the snow. These are not high temperatures. The highest temperature at the time was 64 degrees Fahrenheit. The change was rapid, cold one day with snow and then warming up suddenly and the snow was gone, with no water runoff and dry roads.

The drought of the country is continuing.

U.S. Drought Monitor
December 18, 2012
Valid 7 a.m. EST

Snow melts in the Spring of 2013 will not necessary refill reservoirs as this is the second year I have noted the sublimation of snowfall rather than water runoff.

The 'quality' of the snowfall is light and fluffy. High volume accumulation which contains significant amounts of air. The rapid change of air temperature literally penetrates the snow and vaporizes it. The snowfall is high volume and not very wet or dense. It doesn't stay around long enough to compact forming ice either. When vehicles run over it, it turns to ice. Even that ice is exposed to higher temperatures quickly and disappears simply because there is no residual coldness to support the ice. Basically, the snow disappears first, the ice is the only residual coldness and not supported by snow and the ice disappears quickly afterwards.

This outcome also reduces the white reflective quality of sustained snowfall to cool the troposphere. This is fact and can be validated by local weather reporting stations that provide traffic conditions and road conditions around the country.

The sublimination of the snow is noted in fog. Depending on the volume of snowfall it can be reported in the media as dense fog with low visibility.

"Morning Papers" - It's Origins (click here)

The Rooster

"Okeydoke"

Below is the greeting from Google.

"Good Night, Moon"

December 23, 2012

Waxing Gibbous

84.5 % lit

Christmas Sky Show (click here)

Dec. 21, 2012:  Just when you thought Christmas was over: At the end of the day on Dec. 25th, a pair of holiday lights will pop out of the deepening twilight. Jupiter and the Moon are having a Christmas conjunction.

It’s a beautiful apparition, visible all around the globe. Even city dwellers, who often miss astronomical events because of light pollution, can see the show. Separated by less than 2 degrees, the bright pair will beam right through urban lights.

...But I heard him exclaim 'ere he drove out of sight,"Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!"