SouthEast-MidAtlantic Snow/Ice storm January 28-29, 2014 (clouds, pressure, days, towns)
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It IS a joke. People got stuck on the road for 17 hours because of 2 inches of snow? Gotta be the first time. Last time it happened in Chicago, and it was 2 feet of snow.
We had a similar ice storm a few weeks ago too, and it impacted the entire city of 2.8M, and 10,000 people were out of power because of it. But we handled it. Nobody got stuck in their cars for hours and no kids were unable to get back home.
What happens in Atlanta is simply stupid. People simply can't drive on snowy/icy roads? Well, better give back their driver's license.
I am sick of "but people there are not used to this kind of condition" argument. We are human beings, and we adapt to the nature - it is not some gigantic earthquake or hurricane. It is just 2 inches of freaking snow and everyone just freaked out. totally pathetic.
Ok then don't complain the next time Chicago has a heatwave then. Come on, it's just 90 degrees, I mean why is it such big news? We get to 105 for months here in TX. 90 degrees is nothing.
Umm I live in Texas and we can have months of 100+ degrees, no place in the Northeast/Midwest can see that kind of sustained heat.
100 degrees in Chicago is a heatwave and makes news. 100 degrees in Austin is a standard summer day.
Texas isn't the only place in the south. And is Austin as humid as Chicago? If not, I imagine Chicago's 95+ degree days feel more oppressive, although they'd be less common.
But my point was that some Midwestern/Northeastern cities, such as St. Louis & Newark (NJ), have average annual maximums in the 100's, and are higher than the average annual maximums in southern cities such as Atlanta, Memphis, Nashville, Charlotte, etc. which means that 100 degree days in parts of the Midwest/Northeast can occur just as often (if not more often) as they do in much of the South.
"One of the better HIGH-RES pictures from the ice storm in the South. Have seen a lot of low-res video captures and Instagrams but not a lot of high-res photos."
65 degrees in Austin today, up to 75 tomorrow, all signs of winter gone now!
For now. Winters that have a cold pattern tend to stay cold, just as the same for warmer winters. I have a gut feeling we aren't done with arctic cold penetrating far south just yet.
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