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Climate Change in China.......Damn Cold

Traveler

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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_CHINA_COLDEST_WINTER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-01-05-07-52-05

BEIJING (AP) -- China is experiencing unusual chills this winter with its national average temperature hitting the lowest in 28 years, and snow and ice have closed highways, canceled flights, stranded tourists and knocked out power in several provinces.

China Meteorological Administration on Friday said the national average was -3.8 degrees Celsius (25 degrees Fahrenheit) since late November, the coldest in nearly three decades.

The average temperature in northeast China dipped to -15.3 degrees C (4.5 degrees F), the coldest in 43 years, and dropped to a 42-year low of -7.4 degrees C (18.7 degrees F) in northern China.

In some areas - northeastern China, eastern Inner Mongolia, and north part of far-western Xinjiang province - the low has hit -40 degrees C (-40 degrees F), the administration said.

The state-run, English-language China Daily reported Friday that about 1,000 ships were stuck in ice in Laizhou Bay in eastern China's Bohai Sea.

The meteorological administration said Saturday that ice had covered 27,000 square meters (10,500 square miles) of the sea surface by Thursday, the most expansive since 2008 when authorities began to collect such data. The administration expects the ice to continue to grow.

In southwest China's Sichuan province, more than 1,000 tourists were stranded Wednesday in a scenic mountainous area because of icy road, the state-run Beijing News reported.

In southern China, snowstorms from Thursday night have disrupted air and road traffic.

In eastern China's Zhejiang province, at least eight flights were canceled at an airport in Hangzhou city on Thursday, and authorities told state media the airport might be closed if the snow should continue. Utility workers also rushed to restore power in parts of the province, according to state media.

Several highways, including some sections of the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway in central China's Hunan province, were closed Friday because of icy condition, state media reported.

An airport was temporarily shut down in Nanchang city in Jiangxi province, as workers were trying to clear ice and snow from its runway, state media said.

The national meteorological administration said China is seeing dropping temperatures partly because of south-moving polar cold fronts, caused by melting polar ice from global warming. It said the air is moist and likely to dump heavy snow in China, Europe and North America.

On Saturday, the forecast by China's National Meteorological Center said southern China would have more snow and rain in the coming days and that icy rain could hit some regions.
 

Whitewing

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You knew this had to be in there somewhere. I added a fact for OT as well:

The national meteorological administration said China is seeing dropping temperatures partly because of south-moving polar cold fronts, caused by melting polar ice from global warming, and George W. Bush.

:lol:
 

hypocritexposer

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Whitewing said:
You knew this had to be in there somewhere. I added a fact for OT as well:

The national meteorological administration said China is seeing dropping temperatures partly because of south-moving polar cold fronts, caused by melting polar ice from global warming, and George W. Bush.

:lol:


Well, you know....Bush did have that secret meeting with the oil execs. on how to expand "fracking" in Montana, to increase economic activity in the region.

Something OT disagreed with at the time. :lol:
 

gmacbeef

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Whitewing said:
You knew this had to be in there somewhere. I added a fact for OT as well:

The national meteorological administration said China is seeing dropping temperatures partly because of south-moving polar cold fronts, caused by melting polar ice from global warming, and George W. Bush.

:lol:

DAAAAAAMMMMM HIM !!!!!!!!!! :lol:
 

Steve

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That'll teach them for belching out all that coal soot... :?

if they don't go back to riding bicycles they will be roasting in the snow all the time.. just like the Russians...
 

Steve

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Russia suffers its coldest winter ever

Children under 11 have been ordered not to go to school. Metal cables that power Moscow's trolley buses have frozen and snapped. Hundreds of people have been treated for frostbite and hypothermia and one person has been killed by a falling icicle.

Few nations are more hardened to hostile weather than Russia, whose deep chill wrecked Napoleon's army and kept the Nazis at bay. But even this tough country is struggling against a cold snap that has sent the mercury plunging to -32C in Moscow, freezing to death five people in one night.

that was 97,.. but it got better

How to survive the coldest winter in years

Russia Coldest Winter in 70 years: Dec 2012

Russians are shivering through the harshest winter in more than 70 years, with temperatures plunging to as low as minus-58 degrees F. and hundreds of people dead or injured.

While the coldest temperatures have been
recorded in Siberia, even the Moscow region has seen the thermometer drop to
minus-40 degrees.


Nearly four dozen people have died due to the freeze, and more than 500 have been injured, with many of them hospitalized, according to the RT news website.


Heat pipelines have broken down across the country due to the cold, leaving hundreds of homes without heating. Many schools have been closed for a week.


In neighboring Ukraine, the cold spell had killed nearly 40 people by Thursday.

well it was nicer in other places..

Like the UK that had the coldest winter in 100 years.. :? was nicer then the coldest winter in 70 years in Russia,..
 

Traveler

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Algorejazeera really should hold a press conference. He's got some 'splaining to do, besides many regions obviously could use some extra hot air.
 

loomixguy

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Traveler said:
Algorejazeera really should hold a press conference. He's got some 'splaining to do, besides many regions obviously could use some extra hot air.

Extra hot air? Just ship Old Dependsfiller's withered behind to the region. VOILA! Instant hot air and warmer temps!
 
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Anonymous

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Brutal Cold Waves Could be Heading for the U.S.

Alex Sosnowski

By Alex Sosnowski, Expert Senior Meteorologist

January 06, 2013; 5:03 AM



Beginning near or just past the middle of the month, signs are pointing toward waves of frigid air moving southward across North America from the North Pole.

Much of the nation has been experiencing higher-than-average temperatures and lower heating bills so far during the cold weather season, with the exception of some bouts the past couple of weeks.

However, there are signs of a potential change on the way beginning during the second half of January.

A phenomenon known as sudden stratospheric warming has occurred in the arctic region during the past few days. The stratosphere is located between 6 miles and 30 miles above the ground.

Often when this occurs, it forces cold air to build in the lowest layer of the atmosphere then to drive southward.



The problem is the exact timing and location of the emergence of this cold air is uncertain. Typically, the movement of cold air begins 10 to 14 days later.



During the next week or so, a flow of milder Pacific air will invade much of the nation. Because of the time of year, some locations (the northern part of the Great Basin and northern New England) may hold on to the cold they have now due to long nights, light winds and weak sunshine. However, most locations will experience an upswing in temperature for at least a several-day period.



According to AccuWeather.com's Long Range Team, including Mark Paquette, "Overlaying this with other tools, we expect to see cold air spreading out from central Canada later next week into week three of January."

It is possible the cold push will arrive in one big blast. However, it is more likely the cold will advance along in waves of progressively colder air with each wave driving farther south and east.

According to Long Range Weather Expert Paul Pastelok, "The early indications are that the initial thrust of the brutal cold will be directed over the Northwest, northern Rockies or northern Plains first, with subsequent waves reaching farther east."

Expert Senior Meteorologist Brett Anderson stated, "Initially, the cold may seem to be run-of-the-mill or even delayed, but once the cold air engine starts, it may run for quite a while with progressively colder and colder waves of air."

According to Expert Senior Meteorologist Jack Boston, "As the waves of cold air spread to the south and east, some energy may be released in the form of a series of storms riding the cold air."

The storms may initially track from the Southwest to the Upper Midwest, then the western Gulf to the Great Lakes, the eastern Gulf to the Appalachians and perhaps finally northward along the Atlantic Seaboard.

Expert Senior Meteorologist Joe Lundberg added, "While a zone of high pressure off the southern Atlantic coast will offer some resistance to the cold initially in the East, most of the time in situations like this, cold air finishes the job and reaches the Atlantic Seaboard."

AccuWeather.com was expecting a stormy pattern to set up beginning the second half of January in the Eastern states and much lower temperatures this winter, when compared to last winter from the Mississippi Valley to the East in its Winter 2012-13 Forecast.

So while the atmosphere may seem to be settling into a pattern like last winter for some people, meteorologists at AccuWeather.com will be watching the evolution of the winter beginning in mid-January with great interest.


Folks may want to check their supply of fuel for the second half of the winter sooner rather than later, in the event the waves of arctic air develop to their full potential. Folks in the Appalachians and parts of the East may not want to sell their snow blower and ditch their snow shovels just yet.

Full article/maps: http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/brutal-cold-waves-could-reach-us/3586088
 
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