Real Climate Science

When the air gets cold and still in the winter, wind power becomes nearly useless.

http://www.bmreports.com/bsp/bsp_home.htm

When climate models told us that skiing was a thing of the past in Colorado, this must have been what they meant.

http://denver.cbslocal.com/

Atlanta is expecting to its first white Christmas in 130 years. Climate experts tell us that it is hot everywhere besides western Europe, so it seems safe to assume that Atlanta has relocated across the Atlantic.

http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-weather-snow-accumulations-785039.html

h/t to Marc Morano

Donovan wimps out – claims he wants to “rest” in LA.

Maybe Al Grope Gore thinks he lives in Europe?

Chris Bird moved here from Tampa in November 2009 and was introduced to a harsh winter, but he didn’t think it would repeat itself this year.

He was rethinking that position as temperatures struggled to reach 30 and a couple of inches of snow blanketed parts of the city on Sunday. Schools were closed, flights were delayed and traffic slowed to a crawl in some places. Another inch or so of snow was expected to fall overnight.

“In Florida, it’s record-breaking when it hits the 30s,” Bird, 20, said. “This weather has been in the teens. I don’t mind driving in the snow, but it’s cold.”

Nashville is experiencing its coldest December since 1942. Sunday’s below-freezing temperatures and snow created black ice conditions on many Middle Tennessee roads, said meteorologist Bobby Boyd with the National Weather Service. That prompted Metro Nashville Public Schools, along with neighboring school districts, to cancel classes today.

http://www.tennessean.com/

h/t to Marc Morano

Finally feeling better after being sick for a week – so I took my Romanian friend WASR out tonight.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/nyregion/23snow.html?_r=2

New York is not part of Europe, Jim.

h/t to Marc Morano

http://blog.algore.com/2010/12/another_record_1.html

TVA has been setting utility records this month, apparently from all those hot people in Tennessee running their air conditioners.

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http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/products/maps/acis/nrcc/MonthTDeptNRCC.png

The southeastern US has been averaging between three and fifteen degrees below normal this month. This is even colder than the record cold of January, 2010.

and February, 2010

But it is the hottest year ever.