MONSTER STORM APPROACHING THE USA ( THE STORM WILL COVER 3/4 OF THE NATION )

[indimuse]

Run time: 03:19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGiWd4Vjslw   Posted on YouTube: February 01, 2011 By YouTube Member: NYC812 Views on YouTube: 216   Posted on DU: February 01, 2011 By DU Member: indimuse Views on DU: 1383

 
wow! you better be prepared if you live in those areas! ;)

[Lochloosa]

1. I'm cool....

:evilgrin:

[Newest Reality]

2. Looks like a Snowpocalypse! Be safe people! Prepare. -NT

[jellen]

3. Most of these forecasts are severly over-blown.

I think they do it to get more viewers.

[Drale]

5. Weather is not something they "get" viewers with

weather is a science and if you said that they over-blow their forecast any meteorologist would not be to happy with you.

[kentauros]

7. Same thing happens during Hurricane Season.

They all stick their reporters out in hip-deep floodwaters as if it's like that everywhere and preach Fear! Fear! Fear!

Granted, some storms are worth listening to all the Fear! stories just to get an idea of severity and whether to evacuate or not, but most of their reporting has very little informative value.

Better to go online to NOAA, NWS, WeatherUnderground, and Stormpulse :)

[greiner3]

10. You mean like when Fox News lies about most anything;

That will advance their cause? I don't think this is the case at all. The weather forecasting has gotten so much more reliable within the last decade. I have been following the 14 day long range forecast. You would be amazed how accurate it is. If it misses, it misses mostly in the early fall and late spring. These are the times when the 'waves' of isobars are the most unreliable and a difference of 20 miles where the jet stream crosses can make huge differences in your local weather. For instance, in Central Ohio the snowfall last week was 5.7". Outside of Franklin County was half that amount. The difference? A bank of slow moving clouds that dumped an addition 1/2" of precipitation that turned into the additional 3" of snowfall.
So in conclusion, it would have to be a huge conspiracy to come to the conclusion of your post. There is NOAA and half dozen commercial weather companies making their own predictions. They, for the most part, gibe. To say that all these sources are conspiring to inflate serious weather forecasts just for an increased audience would be like the anti-Global Warming deniers saying the academic Scientists who put forward papers agreeing with Global Warming are doing it only for their own advancement and to get future funding. Hahaha, the joke's on us, right.

[kentauros]

4. "Approaching" the USA?

Umm, it's more than halfway across the continent already ;)

[ewagner]

6. Looks like

a snow day...or, possibly snow DAYS are likely for Chicago.

We're on the far northern edge and expect maybe flurries out of it...

I hate the way the Weather Channel has been "hyping" the storm. I think they've overdone the "snowmageeddon twenty-eleven" thing and people just aren't paying attention anymore.

I hope everyone prepares adequately and stays off the roads.....rent some movies, pop some popcorn, let the snow removal teams do their job..(get your car off the street if you can, it will help tremendously in the snow removal operations)

good luck

[Chisox08]

9. Snow days in Chicago!?

I don't think we had a snow day since 79. All streets and San. worker are on 72 hour call and the garbage trucks have snow plows already attached to them. Or at least the one that came through my alley today.

[mike_c]

8. sunny, warm, and precipitation free in beautiful norcal....

Don't even THINK about moving here, however. It only rains in winter and there's marijuana growing EVERYWHERE. You'd hate it here. Really.

Seriously though-- all ya'll in the rest of the country stay warm and safe!

[AtheistCrusader]

11. Go-go Mother Nature!

We could use a reminder.

[lib2DaBone]

12. Today's forcast for Florida

I couldn't resist. We have Rick Scott and Tea Baggers up the yin-yang.. but at least the weather is nice.
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Today2/1/2011 Hi: 79° Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s near the coast and around 80 inland. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
Lo: 60° Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s near the coast and around 60 inland. South winds 5 to 10 mph.

[rurallib]

13. started here (eastern Iowa) about 3 hours ago - so far light

Where I live is a transition area so we have a range of 8 to 16 inches.
Fortunately, most of our previous snow had melted. And doesn't look like we will get ice.
Got 3 different types of heat (corn, wood, natural gas) so at least one should work.

[RoccoR5955]

14. I think that this is a propaganda ploy, by climate change deniers

They want to talk this little more than average winter storm up. Here in the Hudson Valley of NY, we get our share of snow. I remember on Xmas 2001 or 2002 it snowed like 3 feet. I remember other storms where we got multiple feet. This storm does not seem to be up to that mark, but time will tell.

Why they are all of a sudden freaking out over a snowstorm, is beyond me. My only thought is that it is a ploy by climate change deniers, to say, "See all the snow that we got, how can there be global warming?" Then I will have to explain the definition of climate change to them for the nth time.

Get the hell over it, it's only snow, for cryin' out loud!