"Teh worst weather disaster EVAR!"

[ilovemycomputer90]

Originally Posted by Gnutella

Yeah, everything's global warming's fault. Just a few weeks ago when it was warm in the eastern United States for a few days, I seriously remember a woman saying, "The weather has really changed. I don't remember it being in the 70s in January." That's because your memory sucks and you forgot all about January 1989. Here are the years in which each daily record high temperature in January occurred in Athens, GA:

1985, 1952, 1952, 1955, 1950, 1899, 1950, 2008, 1930, 1937, 1949, 1949, 1931, 1937, 1932, 1952, 1928, 1928, 1949, 1927, 1933, 1927, 1927, 1927, 1943, 1950, 1950, 1911, 2002, 1975, 1975.

The lowest of January's record highs? 72° on January 8, 2008. The highestest? 80° on January 12, 1949 and January 30, 1975. Yeah, warm weather in January has never happened before. (Hey, wasn't "global cooling" the big threat to civilization in 1975?)

Oh yeah, the 76° day on January 1, 1985? That occurred less than three weeks before a historic cold wave in the eastern United States that set an all-time record low temperature for the state of Georgia! Was Mother Nature flipping out then, or did people back then just accept that the weather can change?

I agree, very annoying.

[susancruzs]

I agree, calm, straight forward a much better way to go about it. Our local Fox station in Green Bay names our storms, too and I ignore it. I generally watch the local ABC station instead.

I've lived through some big storms in the Chicago area and liked it before all the media outlets! In 1967, the Chicago area had 2 feet of snow and the area was pretty well paralyzed for several days.

Since I moved to Wisc., there were hundreds of cars/trucks stranded by Madison one year, there was some national coverage but not a ton. It was a serious situation but got handled without too much major hooplah.