Looks like the south is in for a long stretch of global warming this winter.

God is not pleased with the loss to the Spartans.

GooberMcFly: A light dusting cancels schools? Is this where we northerners make fun of the southerners?

I think we do that all the time.

Joe Stalin, Georgia's most famous son, is probably rolling over in his grave masoleum.

Quick, get a FOX News Channel producer out there to put Al Gore's book in a snowbank!

Like a Japanese cowboy.

Meh, it's North Georgia. They should be used to it, just not so much to have tire chains or anything like that.

about 6 years ago i went down south to tour some civil war battle fields. it was amusing because going into the trip it was very cold and was snowing. the people in Tennessee just went bonkers when it snowed.
to be fair, it was the first few days of april. it was 85 the rest of the trip.

Meanwhile Minnesota has arrived in January with just a one third inch of ice on the ground.

/sucks

GooberMcFly: A light dusting cancels schools? Is this where we northerners make fun of the southerners?

Did we need a reason?

It is colder than a well diggers butt in the ATL today.

- It is so cold Even those real housewives folks have put on some clothes
- It is so cold the bling is freezing to wanna be rap stars
- It is so cold the Atlanta Public schools had to stop the cheating on standardized test because the erasers were freezing

LrdPhoenix: Meh, it's North Georgia. They should be used to it, just not so much to have tire chains or anything like that.

Hell, I live in upstate NY, in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains, and I've never used tire chains. Good set of snow tires, or all-season radials, on a front-wheel-drive car, and just slow the fark down, and you'll be fine.

LrdPhoenix: Meh, it's North Georgia. They should be used to it, just not so much to have tire chains or anything like that.

Lives in Atlanta.....owns tire chains for both my cars. They are so cheap and easy to put on nowadays that its silly not to have them.

\ Also has a house in WNC, where snowfall can sometimes be measured in feet
\\ I can make beer runs while every is stuck at home all sober and whatnot.

Finally , they're getting some much needed water.

Well, at least the weather is now appropriate for the brothers to wear their "Michelin Man" puffy jackets that they start wearing in September.

Last night driving from DC to Nashville we hit a snow flurry shower in TN on imterstate 40. About a quarter inch accumulation, and then it was like the zombie apocolypse had arrived. Every 2 miles there was a major accident with multiple emergency vehicles on site, in between those were cars laying rolled over in ditches that no one had arrived to yet, and we even saw a life flight copter land on the east bound lanes for a semi that slid off an over pass - with all the mayhem, flashing lights, smashed cars, I actually passed the time by pretending I was in a disaster movie fleeing a city that had just been over run by something -

Helped pass the time... until I realized t was from a TRACE amount of snow then I became angry

beta_plus: Looks like the south is in for a long stretch of global warming this winter.

Fun fact, the temperature reaches 10-15 degrees F frequently in the south in the Winter. What it generally doesn't do is precipitate at the same time (cold air is drier air). Global Warming which only increases temperature by a few degrees (30 degrees is still cold enough to snow) can actually cause more snow in many areas as it increases the humidity.

bravian: Meanwhile Minnesota has arrived in January with just a one third inch of ice on the ground.

/sucks

Same thing just a little north in Winnipeg, its maybe snowed 4 times all season. Ice is still good though so it doesn't matter too much.

I guess my conservative friends in Texas will point to this and conveniently forget that nearly every day this past summer had record setting heat.

I really don't know enough to argue either way about global warming/climate change, I just find it funny that most conservatives I know won't argue about it until the first snow of the winter.

If you don't treat your roads before the snow starts, even a quarter to a half inch can be a problem as the snow will melt and then freeze onto the roadway. See, us Northerners figured this out a long time ago.

i bet all the bread and milk is gone off the shelves

GooberMcFly: A light dusting cancels schools? Is this where we northerners make fun of the southerners?

always , got a half foot of snow here in Ohio and we still have school. Bunch of babies down south

Freakin Rican: i bet all the bread and milk is gone off the shelves

I know. "Holy crap, a storm, we need bread and milk!!!!!"

Cold and windy here in Tampa, pray for me

bravian: GooberMcFly: A light dusting cancels schools? Is this where we northerners make fun of the southerners?

Did we need a reason?

You sure you want your pie hole to get you into that kind of trouble? Link (new window)

TravisBickle62: Cold and windy here in Tampa, pray for me

Because of the weather, or because you live in Tampa?

Same as jsteiner78. Except it was SC. I grew up in the Great White North, so driving on ice and snow was how we spent our Summer vacations. Well, Spring break maybe. Anyway, we lost count at around fifty cars in the roadside ditch. We even had to help a cop get his car out of a ditch and gave him lessons on how to drive in a "low friction environment."

Lived in New Jersey a few years later. Their philosophy about driving in inclement weather is: Go faster. The cops are going to be busy pulling bodies out of wrecks, so there's less chance of getting a ticket.

Jake Havechek: If you don't treat your roads before the snow starts, even a quarter to a half inch can be a problem as the snow will melt and then freeze onto the roadway. See, us Northerners figured this out a long time ago.

But you're not prepared for two weeks straight of 100 degree weather.

/everyone up North has salt, everyone down South has air conditioning. Go figure.

bravian: Meanwhile Minnesota has arrived in January with just a one third inch of ice on the ground.

/sucks

Last snow in Boston was October. A few flakes on Christmas, but that was it.

/been in the 40s a lot more than normal

JohnCarter: - It is so cold the bling is freezing to wanna be rap stars

Well, good. Maybe they won't shoot each other over a piece of candy.

Record setting warm spell in Calgary, Alberta. We had a brown Christmas (no snow - brown grass) for the first time in about 10 years. January is usually the coldest month (should be around -15 degC) and tomorrow (Wed) we're looking at setting a record high of +15 degC (something like potato in degF)

Yet here in MA its been in the 40s and 50s for weeks...

Mr High and Mighty: I guess my conservative friends in Texas will point to this and conveniently forget that nearly every day this past summer had record setting heat.

I really don't know enough to argue either way about global warming/climate change, I just find it funny that most conservatives I know won't argue about it until the first snow of the winter.

The record heat was due to God punishing us for ***insert your favored liberal conspiracy of choice that actually follows a convention of Jesus***.

It is all because of climate change. You see, the atmosphere is heating up, causing it to get colder and then it snows in places that sometimes get snow. Where's jonblowjob when I need his help??

bravian: Meanwhile Minnesota has arrived in January with just a one third inch of ice on the ground.

/sucks

If by 'sucks' you mean the greatest winter ever!, then yeah.

We earned it after last year (three feet on the ground and cold).

Blah blah no infrastructure for salting and plowing blah blah.

Forgot to mention that the national weather service predicted that this was going to be the coldest winter on record....

No it's not.

Lots of people use this as an excust to stay out of work too. Gonna have an inbred baby boom come October.

Freakin Rican: i bet all the bread and milk is gone off the shelves

No. That would be RI.
Down south, they'd be a fixing ta git down ta da store and make sure all the bread and mild ain't done gone off the shelves.

blanchae: Forgot to mention that the national weather service predicted that this was going to be the coldest winter on record....

For those of you who need to see this quoted - there it is...

And it all melts by noon.

MindStalker: beta_plus: Looks like the south is in for a long stretch of global warming this winter.

Fun fact, the temperature reaches 10-15 degrees F frequently in the south in the Winter. What it generally doesn't do is precipitate at the same time (cold air is drier air). Global Warming which only increases temperature by a few degrees (30 degrees is still cold enough to snow) can actually cause more snow in many areas as it increases the humidity.

Fun Fact. That argument makes sense around the Great Lakes, but we're talking about Georgia here. Plus, you made up global warming in order to secure federal research grants while engaging in fraud.