We’re supposed to get an ice/slush storm early tomorrow morning, three inches for rush hour traffic.
I can’t tell you the havoc this is wreaking on our local municipal budgets. We’ve now had, I think, three times more snow than average — and it’s only the first week of February. Sure, sometimes they get FEMA reimbursement, but they have to declare a state of emergency to be eligible.
Meanwhile, California is baking without needed rain. Oy.
The two situations, California drought and the most-of-the-US deep winter are directly related. Interesting graphic showing that here: http://earth.nullschool.net/#2014/01/30/0000Z/wind/isobaric/10hPa/orthographic=-82.04,33.38,356
Rome is in flames as the whole world keeps on burning fossil fuels. A fact that the oil and coal companies will never admit.