what about the shropshire slasher?

Dunno what a Manitoba Mauler is, but I think I'll stay off the roads...

DfTR

OMFG i laughed so hard i'm crying.... too funny.

in before dude wait what cat

Ohhh it's like an Alberta Clipper...

/huh!?

I would be more worried about the Saskatchewan UFIA, myself.

Dead for Tax Reasons: what about the shropshire slasher?

Excellent Looney Tunes reference. I salute you.

(I'm also interested in how/why this was greenlit so fast.)

Sweet. Whatever it is, it'll just miss me.

"So what is this 'clipper system' that I reference? It's one of those little Canadian exports that's we tend to dislike during the winter months because it's usually associated with colder weather. It's a low pressure system, born on the Prairie Provinces east of the Canadian Rockies. The average clipper just "clips" the lower 48 by diving southeastward into the Dakotas and Minnesota before sliding into the Great Lakes. It's typically a fast moving system, and can produce snow, but amounts are usually light because it's hundreds of miles from a moisture source like the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic. It can produce heavy, lake effect snows across the Great Lakes as it pulls cold, arctic air over the warmer waters of the lakes.

Once in awhile, a clipper will cross the Appalachians and turn into a dreaded Nor'easter. It was a weak clipper that created the New England blizzard of 1978.

You'll typically hear me refer to a clipper as an Alberta Clipper, of course named for the province of its origination. But there is also the dreaded Manitoba Mauler as well as the Saskatchawan Screamer. Either of the three will make you grab for your heavy coat."

Even after all that I still don't know what the hell one is.
It's just bad, bad, bad, bad weather, folks.

As it turns out (according to http://www.crh.noaa.gov/sgf/?n=winter_checklist_paper) a Manitoba MAuler is similar to a Alberta Clipper or a Saskatchewan Screamer.

Didn't the Hulkster run wild on that Manitoba Mauler in Wrestlemania VII?

CornFedIowan: (I'm also interested in how/why this was greenlit so fast.)

1) It apparently was submitted and greenlit at the same time.

2) It's a weather forecast for Louisville, KY.

You figure out the rest.

That sounds like a serial killer or something.

But them I remembered that it's from Canada, where everyone is too polite ot be serial killers.

Mediocre-Photoshops-Incorporated: 2) It's a weather forecast for Louisville, KY.

You figure out the rest.

Hmmm.....still don't get it...

;)

Oh OK this explains it

http://www.wxrisk.com/SECS/clipperRules.htm

My First Fark Account: Alberta Clipper

I refuse to believe anything interesting can come out of Alberta.

Madison County, KY here. PLEASE let this be true. I haven't fired my SKS in months.

/Kidding I think.

they are MOST dangerous since the ONLY way a s/w can dive to the East Coast is to take on a negative tilt.

okay as soon as someone explains this to me i'll panic

I rember watching him get pounded by Andre the Giant in a steel cage match when I was a kid.

Manitoba Mauler.. interesting

I've lived in Manitoba most of my life and never heard of this expression.

It's quite annoying to think that American's blame all their cold weather on Canada. "Cold front moving in from Canada" you know what, it comes from the damn Arctic. Deal with it. We do. As if it's somehow our fault. Darn those Canadians for letting terrorists and cold weather cross into our freedom loving borders. Socialist Commie bastards!

That said its only -20 outside right now. Not too bad, and its almost February already.

Manitoba Maulers.. not a bad name for a hockey team.

CornFedIowan: (I'm also interested in how/why this was greenlit so fast.)

The admins appear to have been drunk for the past couple of days. It's really the only explanation.

Or perhaps the NOAA sponsored this link...

Dead for Tax Reasons: Occupation?

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We had -40 a week ago, you Americans never get the really cold weather.

(1 hour North of Grand Forks)

I love winter weather. Very jealous of you folks north of the US. Please send some snow my way.

I guess it similar to this...

ManitobaSnowplow


NSFW, or diners...

So basically it's going to be cold for awhile. Big deal.

/works in Louisville

tiiger: We had -40 a week ago

What's that in fahrenheit?

/obscure?

ftp1020

if it were kelvin, then i'd be worried

insane_idoru: But them I remembered that it's from Canada, where everyone is too polite ot be serial killers.

But.But. Canaduh has many serial killers..They all dress alike and have this strange yellow stripe down each pant leg and continuously harrass the general innocent public.

/But the pineapple express. Thats a paddling.

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!!

Canadians, you act like I should be surprised that an entire country north of Buffalo is colder than most of the continental United States.

tiiger
We had -40 a week ago, you Americans never get the really cold weather.

You are forgetting Alaska is part of the US. Last time I looked, it was damn cold in Fairbanks mid-winter...

My First Fark Account: As it turns out (according to http://www.crh.noaa.gov/sgf/?n=winter_checklist_paper) a Manitoba MAuler is similar to a Alberta Clipper or a Saskatchewan Screamer.

Well, those sound like roller coasters.

ftp1020

Not obscure, but still funny.

Had a professor referring to something as 100,000 (or maybe 100,000,000) degrees or something like that (very high temp). Someone asked if that was Celcius or Kelvin. His response "Kelv...Celc...um, ..... IT DOESNT MATTER!"

I remember when the Manitoba Mauler beat The Iron Sheik in that table match at Wrestlemania IV.

What the hell does that even mean?

I once had a Saskatchewan Screamer at a bar. I think it involved rum and vodka mixed with a half-and-half of Labatt's and Molson.

I_Approve_Of_This_Message: I once had a Saskatchewan Screamer at a bar.

I had her long before she even got to the bar. I bet she didn't mention that.

Since moving to the UK, I miss real winter weather. We had 2cm of snow the other day and EVERYBODY PANICKED

WTF?

/lives in Manitoba, never heard of it

Manitoba Snowplow

A sexual act in which you are giving a girl butsecks and then push her arms out from under her and hump her across the floor.

/classy
//...and fun.

2007-01-28 04:12:48 PM tiiger

We had -40 a week ago, you Americans never get the really cold weather.

(1 hour North of Grand Forks)

North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin can get pretty chilly. I've seen -40F a few times in northern MN. I remember one time in particular. I bought a car from my grandfather in Bemidji MN and being young, stupid, and impatient, I decided to pick it up in mid-January. The car had been in storage for 10 years so there was some work to do. As it turned out, the highs for the couple of days I was there were -30's.

I ended up spending an entire day getting her running ('66 Buick). It needed all the usual after sitting for 10 years. New belts and hoses, turning the engine manually to move some oil, oil in the spark plug holes etc and lots of starter fluid. It was a 9am-4pm endeavor, all outside.

I was fine with it, and so was my 70 something grandfather who stood out there with me the whole time and never even shivered. (he was a logger in his youth)

Never mind that...Just keep a lookout for the Winnipeg Whore

I am in Louisville, I guess I better click teh link.

ftp1020: tiiger: We had -40 a week ago

What's that in fahrenheit?

Fry: Is that in Farenheit or Celsius?
Professor Farnsworth: First one, then the other.

/welcome back, Futurama

This any relation to a Cleveland Steamer?

Is that anything like a Cleveland Steamer?

/in Lexington
//colder than a witch's t*tty right now

Someone from Taylor County here. Does this mean we'll finally get some farking snow?

EVERYBODY PANIC REJOICE.