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Some Idaho school kids enjoy an early snow day

11:52 AM MDT on Wednesday, October 7, 2009





Schools caught off guard WOW: Check out photos of the snow

BELLEVUE -- Just one week ago, we were bracing for a "cool down" from the 80s to the 60s.

Now, it's getting downright wintry. And in some parts of our viewing area, snow is piling up.

This may be one for the record books, not only how early this heavy fall snowstorm is, but the fact that it appears to have created the earliest snow day in the history of the Blaine County School District.

We got dumped on last night, you can see that by looking around here. We weren't quite ready for it. It did cause us some issues in the school district," Lonnie Barber, Blaine County Superintendent.

Not just the school district, but throughout the county. At least 3,500 Idaho Power customers in the Wood River Valley were without electricty today. Utility officials blame heavy wet snow for knocking out power in Bellevue and Hailey. Outages were also reported in Fairfield and Carey.

Since the trees haven't had time to shed their leaves, the snow accumulated and burdened the branches to their breaking point. Many of which landed on power lines.

After about an hour and a half, the Blaine County superintendent said it was time to call it a day for those at Bellevue Elementary School -- the only school left in the dark.

"At about 9:30 this morning we mobilized and started making calls. We didn't want students in the cold, very quick response. Within minutes parents had picked up all but 18 kids, an hour later, all students were at home. Unfortunately we lost one day of school, but only in one of our schools. This is the only school that had the power outage," said Barber.

And, as luck would have it the power got restored just as the last few students were reunited with their parents.



Evelyn

Sigh ...

Local does not equal global.

Sigh...................it's happening other places too Jan. Global warming is a myth, advocated by green [money that is]. There's lots to be made from sitting ducks like you who run out and buy the light bulbs that are loaded with mercury and cost three times the price of a regular light bulb.

Evelyn

but cold means not warmer.....

we have already had frost several weeks ago here in Washington.....that is real early...and not a sign of any warming.....

Sigh...................it's happening other places too Jan.

So? Local does not equal global no matter what the locality. Global warming does not and never has meant that there wouldn't be plenty of extreme weather events, both warm and cold. It's the average temperature that is very gradually increasing. There are plenty of anomalously warm local events too and when I see someone trying to associate them to global warming I say the same thing: local does not equal global.


Global warming is a myth, advocated by green [money that is]. There's lots to be made from sitting ducks like you who run out and buy the light bulbs that are loaded with mercury and cost three times the price of a regular light bulb.

No. Global warming is a scientific theory which has developed over the last three and a half decades into an extremely robust theory - supported by a vast and diverse body of research. I was a personal witness to the beginnings of the development of that theory. I knew many of the lead researchers of the 70's and 80's personally and had many, many discussions with them about their work. I know from that personal observation of those dedicated and serious scientists as well as my close following of the development of the science just how completely divorced from reality your crazy view of it is.

but cold means not warmer.....

The average can be warmer even if some locations are cooler. Is this really so hard to grasp? Have you never seen a weather report that has record cold in one location whilst simultaneously having record heat in another? I assure you - it happens all the time.


we have already had frost several weeks ago here in Washington.....that is real early...and not a sign of any warming.....

Local does not equal global.

global does not equal local

weather does not equal climate

 

correct

 

 

even when the left uses examples to submit their global warming claims

 

(spalding and the arctic)

even when the left uses examples to submit their global warming claims

Indeed. As I said above.



(spalding and the arctic)

Now that's a different issue. If he is talking about local weather in Alaska, then I would agree. But the Arctic as a whole has warmed quite dramatically over the past couple of decades and this concentration of warming in the Arctic was predicted by global warming theory before it was observed. The difference here is that we're talking about a strong regional anomaly which has persisted over a very long time and which was predicted by the theory. That's quite a different thing from your local weather over a time span of a couple weeks or months or even years.

(spalding and the arctic)

Now that's a different issue. If he is talking about local weather in Alaska, then I would agree. But the Arctic as a whole has warmed quite dramatically over the past couple of decades and this concentration of warming in the Arctic was predicted by global warming theory before it was observed. The difference here is that we're talking about a strong regional anomaly which has persisted over a very long time and which was predicted by the theory. That's quite a different thing from your local weather over a time span of a couple weeks or months or even years.

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I wasn't talking about local weather.  It is a phenomena that is well documented throughout the Arctic.  Hell, the Canadian government is talking about how to regulate traffic through the NorthWest Passage...  A route that has never been open enough to sail through until the last 3 or 4 years.

gillis, just pay attention to the real science.  Not the biased crap that you hope will take it's place.

Jim..