MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Midwestern US warned of 'life-threatening' temperatures of up to minus 51 Celsius
Residents of the Midwestern United States braced for the coldest weather in two decades, temperatures that forecasters warned would be life-threatening. An estimated one third of the US population has been affected by the extreme weather conditions that also reached neighboring Canada. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesGlobal warming? Err sorry, Climate Change.
Jan 06th, 2014 - 10:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0What country's(countries')car exhausts did this?
Every time yanqui laughs about someones misfortune with the weather, mother nature lets him know the meaning of karma....
Jan 06th, 2014 - 10:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yeah, we call that sort of thing winter around here. Well below zero on the old-school Fahrenheit scale and I was on the deck at the grill last night. God what a bunch of sissies.
Jan 06th, 2014 - 03:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Being from New England I will with the fact that January is the coldest month in our winter.....and am waiting for our snowiest.....February. Fortunately we have furnaces and lights. Surprisingly the ice did not cause any significantly downed power lines.
Jan 06th, 2014 - 03:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0stevie........no one laughs at the suffering.....they laugh at the mismanagement of the Atlantic facing South America. When will the dopes learn that you cannot legislate price controls and legislate supplies at the same time. Price controls naturally creates shortages.
Storm after storm in the UK. The northeast buried under 2 foot of snow ( that's what the BBC said anyway ) and all the EU does is bleat on about global warming........
Jan 06th, 2014 - 06:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You would have to laugh if it wasn't so sad. This time LAST year we had snow here in Nottingham, Snow!!! We don't normally get that until mid / end of February... hey ho.
1 lsolde :- Didn't Nigel Farage show photo's of the ice caps at the EU saying that NASA has said that we are now in for 10 - 15 years of global Cooling?
2 Stevie :- There is no such thing as karma, just weather.
3 GFace :- There was a frost here last night, I wore my socks to bed.... Does that make me less of a man.
4 Captain Poppy :- What you need to do is drink more Guinness, It will put hairs on your chest and keep you warm no matter how cold it gets outside!! Keep warm, stay safe.
If we believed all what the experts ever said,
Jan 06th, 2014 - 07:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0we would still be living in cave..lol.
It's approaching minus 60F for our “old school” friends.
Jan 06th, 2014 - 07:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Stevie, I don't laugh about the weather, I laugh at the Rg inept response to it. Its hot in BA in summer that is no surprise yet every year the stupid Rgs are surprised and woefully dare I say Criminally unprepared.
Jan 06th, 2014 - 08:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@5 So long as you have the decency to bring the dogs in for the night...
Jan 06th, 2014 - 10:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 02 Stevie ”Every time yanqui laughs about someones misfortune with the weather, mother nature lets him know the meaning of karma....
Jan 07th, 2014 - 04:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0Poor Fred :-)))
Since it seems my admirers are worried I'll give you a little update from the fridgid north; I am warm, have electricity (gasp) and plan to work today ( double gasp).
Jan 07th, 2014 - 01:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0See boys life and WORK ( do you recognize that word) goes on even in extreme weather events in the civilized world.
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