Re: Record Cold Wave Sweeps US : Global Warming to blame


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of course.


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/06/national/main2655181.shtml
(CBS/AP) Never mind the Easter bonnets. In a large swath of the U.S., you
had better remember where you put your winter hat and put it on.

Just about everywhere east of the Rockies, it's extremely cold for this
time
of year - with snow in parts of the Northeast and Midwest, and freezing
temperatures elsewhere - and it's going to stay this way right through the
weekend.

Parts of the upper Northeast are slogging through over a foot of snow
which
closed schools, tangled traffic and knocked out power to more than 180,000
homes and businesses.

Frost and freeze warnings are in effect for the next few nights throughout
much of the Southeast, while the snow continues to pile up across portions
of the Great Lakes and the Northeast, which has seen more snow so far this
April than what fell over the entire month of December.

The cold weather, says CBS News meteorologist George Cullen, is the result
of an intense storm system sweeping down extremely cold air from central
Canada on down to the eastern half of the U.S.

The result, says Cullen, is temperatures 15 to 30 degrees below normal,
with
many record lows likely over the weekend, from the Ohio Valley on down to
southeast coast.

At least two deaths - traffic accidents in New Hampshire and Michigan -
are
blamed on the wintry weather, which began late Wednesday.

The flakes fell at a rate of up to 2 inches per hour, and by early
Thursday,
areas of Maine already had nearly a foot and a half of wet, heavy snow,
and
central New Hampshire saw 16 inches in spots. Up to 24 inches fell in
Michigan's Upper Peninsula, as many as 13 inches in Vermont, and upstate
New
York had several inches as well.

In Kansas, five to eight inches of snow is on the ground in the
east-central
and north-central parts of the state, and with temperatures expected to
dip
into the lower 20s and teens in the next few days, farmers are worried
about
their crops.

The cold snap came after two weeks of exceptionally warm weather, with
highs
around Kansas of from 60 to 80 degrees, speeding up the growth of the
wheat
by about two weeks.

"I'm concerned," says Saline County wheat farmer Gary Olson. "Usually if
it
gets below 24 degrees, the experts tell us our wheat crop might be in
trouble."

"We're pretty vulnerable," says Tom Maxwell, agricultural extension agent
in
Salina. If the weatherman's right, he adds, "we're going to see some
damage."

In Nebraska, it's also cold and snowy, but some locals are unimpressed,
pointing out that snow in early April is far from unprecedented in the
Plains.

In Arkansas, snow is not an issue, but the cold is - with freeze warnings
in
effect and record lows expected over the weekend.

Things will also be a lot nippier than usual in Augusta, Ga., home of the
Masters golf tournament, already underway.

It will be one of the coldest Masters ever, says Cullen, with temperatures
struggling to get out of the 50s. "Usually the temperatures are not lower
than the scores; this year, they will be."




Weather and Climate have different meanings.

RO



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