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2024-01-12 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Polar vortex set to batter US with extreme cold

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Posted by Fred 2024-01-12 2024-01-12 01:09|| || Front Page|| [26 views ] Top

#1 Hah - I wash my balls with ice water!

Posted by Raj 2024-01-12 01:39|| 2024-01-12 01:39|| Front Page Top

#2 This was once referred to as "winter"

Posted by Elmaper McGurque1612 2024-01-12 03:08|| 2024-01-12 03:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Perhaps good for slowing migrant and homeless activity.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-12 05:50|| 2024-01-12 05:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Chiefs-Dolphins 'could see a wind chill as low as MINUS 30' with 'dangerously cold' weather threatening to disrupt another playoff game after it emerged that Steelers-Bills could be MOVED

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-12 06:44|| 2024-01-12 06:44|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Since it's only on paid-streaming Peacock, I couldn't give a shit, NFL FOAD

Posted by Frank G 2024-01-12 07:09|| 2024-01-12 07:09|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ Boycotting "professional sports" until all remaining non-persons of color are finally removed.

[sarc off]

Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-12 07:12|| 2024-01-12 07:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Only the current cabal could come to the conclusion that the circuses part of bread and circuses should go to a subscription model when people can't even afford bread.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-12 07:27|| 2024-01-12 07:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Dallas could see temperatures drop to minus 9.4 degrees Celsius on January 15,

Minus temperatures sound worse in Celsius - minus 9.4 Celsius is plus 15 degrees Fahrenheit. Celsius seems scarier, doncha know.

Posted by Bobby 2024-01-12 07:45|| 2024-01-12 07:45|| Front Page Top

#9 It still cracks me up to see people wearing mittens when it's 50 F here on the Space Coast.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-12 08:11|| 2024-01-12 08:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Weatherman visibly shaken after thundersnow strikes while he's reporting live from Winter Storm Gerri - as EVERY US state is hit by weather warning: Midwest and Northeast prepare for severe storm and temps in Montana plunge as low as -48F

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-12 14:06|| 2024-01-12 14:06|| Front Page Top

#11 "Winter Storm Gerri"
Jeez, these people really, really have hurricane envy bad...

Posted by ed in texas 2024-01-12 14:34|| 2024-01-12 14:34|| Front Page Top

#12 global ~~warming~~ climate change in effect!

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2024-01-12 15:35|| 2024-01-12 15:35|| Front Page Top

#13 Guess they are going to have to bring some of those temperature monitoring stations indoors...

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-12 15:57|| 2024-01-12 15:57|| Front Page Top

#14 ...you mean they haven't already?

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-01-12 16:07|| 2024-01-12 16:07|| Front Page Top

#15 I love that they now call 'Alberta Clippers' or 'Saskatchewan Screamers' a 'polar vortex'

Posted by Mullah Richard 2024-01-12 16:39|| 2024-01-12 16:39|| Front Page Top

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