This is Sarah Palin's fault

Colder in Alabama than in Alaska. Gotta be Sarah Palin's fault -- you
betcha' !!

From the Knoxville, TN, "News-Sentinel:"

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Alabama was colder than Alaska, water
fountains froze into ice sculptures in South Carolina and Florida
shivered through a brush of Arctic air blast that deadened car
batteries in the Northeast and prompted scattered Midwest power
outages.

As Southerners awaited an expected weekend thaw, the Northeast
persisted under the bitterly cold air from Canada that sent
temperatures plunging in some places below minus 30 degrees and left
even longtime residents reluctant to venture outdoors.

The low in Knoxville on Friday was 5 degrees, 23 degrees below our
normal low for that day. The high was 22, 24 degrees below the normal
high, according to the National Weather Service.

The record low for Jan. 16 in Knoxville came in 1972 at 1 and the
record high in 1932 at 74.

Quentin Masters braved the chilly weather, making a trip to a
Syracuse, N.Y., post office to mail his sister a gift for her birthday
Monday.

"It was almost too cold to come down," he said, but he added, "I don't
want to be late."

Single-digit temperatures and subzero wind chills were expected in
western New York through the weekend, with more seasonable conditions
moving in early next week.

To Southerners, who rarely see temperatures so cold, the icebox-like
weather was the most jarring. Construction worker Allen Johnson wore a
gray beanie, flannel shirt, long johns and boots as he stopped for
coffee in Montgomery, Ala., after an overnight low of 22 degrees
Friday.

"No matter how bad it is, it could be worse — we could be in
Anchorage, Alaska," Johnson said. Actually, the temperature was about
20 degrees warmer in Anchorage on Friday.

Freezing temperatures threatened to kill picturesque Spanish moss
hanging from Gulf Coast trees. In Spartanburg, S.C., a hard freeze
coated a water fountain in shimmering icicles. And it was too cold to
bet on dogs in West Virginia.

In Tennessee, Heather Davis, of NashvillePAW Magazine, watched her
photographer unsuccessfully try to coax their cover model, a white
poodle named Cotton, to pose outdoors for the animal publication.
Cotton, who is up for adoption, ran to the car and didn't want to
leave.

"I don't think I realized how cold it was," Davis said, laughing.

But gusting winds were no laughing matter in Ohio, where temperatures
pushed to their lowest this winter and forced scattered power outages.
Lows ranged from minus 6 degrees in Cincinnati to minus 14 degrees in
Dayton and Toledo — just missing record lows for Friday's date.

Thousands in Ohio and Illinois lost power for several hours while
Charleston, W.Va.-based Appalachian Power, which delivers electricity
to more than 1 million customers Tennessee, Virginia and West
Virginia, had record electricity demand as businesses and homes
cranked up the heat.

In Columbus, Ohio, 45-year-old Brandon Champney beat the cold by
visiting the orchid exhibit at the Franklin Park Conservatory — a
deliciously climate-controlled 72 degrees.

"It's beautiful, warm, great," Champney said.

The cold claimed at least six lives and contributed to dozens of
traffic accidents. One death involved a man in a wheelchair who was
found in subzero temperatures stuck in the snow, a shovel in his hand,
outside his home in Des Moines, Iowa.

In central Pennsylvania, AAA fielded a spike in calls from motorists
whose batteries went dead or door locks froze shut. Wind chills were
as low as 25 degrees below zero in greater Pittsburgh.

In Michigan, a winter storm watch was in effect for parts of the Lower
Peninsula, where up to 8 inches of snow could fall by Sunday morning,
the National Weather Service said.

And in Illinois, where a low of 32 degrees below zero was recorded in
a north-central area Friday, the weather service predicted only modest
weekend relief — sort of. The mercury was expected to head Saturday
into the 20s in northern Illinois and the 30s in southern Illinois.

"The heat wave begins," meteorologist Tim Halbach quipped.

http://knoxnews.com/news/2009/jan/17/colder-alabama-alaska/

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