Warm Weather Forces Iditarod Sled Dog Race Farther NorthThe snowy part of America is not the whole planet, folks. And hey, it's going to be in the 40s in Boston next week.
Much of the start of the world's most famous sled dog race is covered in barren gravel, forcing Iditarod organizers to move the start farther north where there is snow and ice.
A weather pattern that buried the eastern U.S. in snow has left Alaska fairly warm and relatively snow-free this winter....
The nearly 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race starts Saturday with a ceremonial run through Anchorage. But the official start two days later has been moved 225 miles north, over the Alaska Range, to Fairbanks to avoid the area that left many mushers bruised and bloodied last year. Iditarod officials said the conditions are worse this year....
Alaskans can thank the jet stream, which has been delivering warm air from the Pacific, said Dave Snider, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Anchorage.
It is "allowing a lot of cold air to flow out of the Arctic into the Midwest and the Eastern Seaboard, (but) we're locked into the warmer part of that pattern," he said.
Anchorage gets about 60 inches of snow in a normal year, but only about 20 inches have fallen this year....
Friday, March 06, 2015
BUT IT SNOWED SOMEWHERE RECENTLY, SO AL GORE IS FAT
Just want to point this out:
Steve, haven't you heard?
ReplyDeleteOf course not. T
HEY are keeping it a secret, hushing it up, gagging the folks at Fox so the word won't leak out, making sure we don't get the news:
The earth was tilted on its axis by all them libor-als occupying Wall Street a couple of years ago. As a consequence, of the tilt, Anchorage was rotated toward the south, while the East Coast of the United States twisted toward the north. In fact, True North is now the Prudential tower in Boston.
The good news is, after a couple of more years of this, there will be a new permanent habitat for the Polar Bears – on the ice floes we've been seeing on the Hudson River. The bad news is, this now makes Sarah Palin eligible to run for governor of Massachusetts. Also, by next year I'll be able to see Russia from my bathroom.
All because those damn left wingers are out demonstrating all day and night and can't stay home where they belong.
Yours very crankily,
The New York Crank
Go home, Duff, you're drunk.
ReplyDeleteAnd as I've said before, to you and others, I don't play requests. I choose what subjects are covered in this blog, not you. If you pound your pacifier on the high chair again and demand attention for some obsession of yours, I'll ban you.
And everyone knows that American Thinker is a site for people who are too stupid even for Breitbart.
Didn't they once yell "MUSH!" at the dog's?
ReplyDeleteNow, thy have to go further North to avoid the mush...
Goddbye, Duff. You're banned.
ReplyDeleteHi, Den-den. Still ass-hurt that nobody giives a shit about what you think?
ReplyDeleteDennis is still banned.
ReplyDeleteThanks for keeping the joint tidy, Steve. Your efforts are much appreciated. Your guests who know how to behave properly can and do get up some lively discussions without trashing the party, and I believe I can speak for others as well as myself and say we're grateful for all the effort you put into making this a good place to hang out.
ReplyDeleteI should have banned Duff earlier. Dennis will probably require a restraining order, or a wooden stake.
ReplyDelete46 celsius in Malaysia yesterday. That's 114 for you and me.
ReplyDeleteI vote for the wooden stake!
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