Don’t worry, just a little bump - $70 is just around the corner. Short traders just keep making those margin calls, mortgage the house if you have to. Fortunes await you! PO is for pansies and doomers. At $70 short some more ..... it is going back to $22 .... the world is awash with oil ........ reality has nothing to do with it, its all in those charts!!!!!!!!!!
Joined: Sep 17, 2006 Posts: 623 Location: No man's land
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:12 pm Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
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Around the world, vast areas have been buried under some of the heaviest snowfalls in decades. Central and southern China, the United States, and Canada were hit hard by snowstorms. In China, snowfall was so heavy that over 100,000 houses collapsed under the weight of snow.
Jerusalem, Damascus, Amman, and northern Saudi Arabia report the heaviest falls in years and below-zero temperatures. In Afghanistan, snow and freezing weather killed 120 people. Even Baghdad had a snowstorm, the first in the memory of most residents.
AFP news reports icy temperatures have just swept through south China, stranding 180,000 people and leading to widespread power cuts just as the area was recovering from the worst weather in 50 years, the government said Monday. The latest cold snap has taken a severe toll in usually temperate Yunnan province, which has been struck by heavy snowfalls since Thursday, a government official from the provincial disaster relief office told AFP.
Twelve people have died there, state Xinhua news agency reported, and four remained missing as of Saturday.
An ongoing record-long spell of cold weather in Vietnam's northern region, which started on Jan. 14, has killed nearly 60,000 cattle, mainly bull and buffalo calves, local press reported Monday. By Feb. 17, the spell had killed a total of 59,962 cattle in the region, including 7,349 in the Ha Giang province, 6,400 in Lao Cai, and 5,571 in Bac Can province, said Hoang Kim Giao, director of the Animal Husbandry Department under the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, according to the Pioneer newspaper.
In Britain the temperatures plunged to -10 C in central England, according to the Express, which reports that experts say that February could end up as one of the coldest in Britain in the past 10 years with the freezing night-time conditions expected to stay around a frigid -8 C until at least the middle of the week. And the BBC reports that a bus company's efforts to cut global warming emissions have led to services being disrupted by cold weather.
Meanwhile Athens News reports that a raging snow storm that blanketed most of Greece over the weekend and continued into the early morning hours on Monday, plunging the country into sub-zero temperatures. The agency reported that public transport buses were at a standstill on Monday in the wider Athens area, while ships remained in ports, public services remained closed, and schools and courthouses in the more severely-stricken prefectures were also closed.
Scores of villages, mainly on the island of Crete, and in the prefectures of Evia, Argolida, Arcadia, Lakonia, Viotia, and the Cyclades islands were snowed in.
More than 100 villages were snowed-in on the island of Crete and temperatures in Athens dropped to -6 C before dawn, while the coldest temperatures were recorded in Kozani, Grevena, Kastoria and Florina, where they plunged to -12 C.
_________________ "It is no measure of health to be deemed sane in an insane society" J. Krishnamurti
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:02 pm Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
It's been a cold and snowy Winter here. I live in Madison, WI. We broke our snow record.. so far this season we've received over 77 inches of snow. Been cold too, lately below zero (F) at night.
Included some images I took from where I live downtown.
Lots of snow. I've been enjoying a 'Real Winter' {tm} for a change.
Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 6079 Location: Rural Virginia
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:17 pm Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
Thanks for the pics, Eric. I enjoyed them, and they took me back to snowier times in my own life.
Here spring is trying to get started, with buds swelling on a few plants.
Winter has become a non-event here. Totally. Basically, we now have an extended autumn that starts in November and ends in March. As I think back over the decades I've spent in and around Virginia, I'm puzzled over why there isn't more public commentary about this extraordinary transformation. _________________ "Actually, humans died out long ago."
---Abused, abandoned hunting dog
"Things have entered a stage where the only change that is possible is for things to get worse."
---Me and my brother
Joined: Apr 05, 2005 Posts: 1609 Location: Springsteen Country (NJ)
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:28 am Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
Heineken wrote:
Winter has become a non-event here. Totally. Basically, we now have an extended autumn that starts in November and ends in March. As I think back over the decades I've spent in and around Virginia, I'm puzzled over why there isn't more public commentary about this extraordinary transformation.
It's basically the same here in central New Jersey. We don't get much snow anymore, and we get a day or two of subfreezing weather at most, then it rebounds to 40 degrees plus (which is above average). Rather than being concerned, people are celebrating the warmth and asking for more. Typical comments include "Maybe now I won't have to move to Florida" or "I never liked the cold anyhow". It's like they don't have a clue, or don't want one.
I wonder how they'll feel when the people who live in the Atlantic beach towns are knocking at their doors looking for shelter from the constant floods? _________________ Joe P. United Political Debate
"Only when the last tree is cut; only when the last river is polluted; only when the last fish is caught; only then will they realize that you cannot eat money." - Cree Indian Proverb
Joined: Apr 28, 2005 Posts: 3370 Location: West shore Lake Eire, MI, USA
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:08 am Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
Here on the west shore of Lake Eire we have been rollercoastering all winter. Our summer extended into late November, when the leaves finally turned right before Thanksgiving. Then we started this lovely cycle of three above normal days followed by two days of intense 1975 level cold. We have been cycling ever since. For instance it was 36 on Saturday, 51 on Sunday, then dropped like a rock and has been 31, 21, and predicted 18 for today. Average for this time of year is a high of 34 as we get wound up for spring.
Flooding has been a major problem through Indiana, Ohio and southern Michigan this winter. We actually had the Fire Department have to evacuate some of our neighbors a half mile down the river from us when all the meltwater from last Sunday overtook that part of the neighborhood by surprise. Minor flooding
The last time we had a major flood here was the early 1980's, but right now the ground is totally saturated with melt water and rain from the warm days in the weather cycle we have been having. The river where my wife's granfather used to live in Indiana has been flooded around twice and one of her aunt's has flood damage in her home. Some of the communities in Ohio due south of here got it worse, I-75 was actually closed for a day back in January from flooding, which was a first ever type of event.
If the climate was normal we would have frozen ground and no flooding, if the weather was persistently warm we would have soil drainage and little flooding. The combination of heavy snow on saturated ground followed by rain is causing repeated flooding and it rather sucks. _________________ Oxygen: - An intensely habit-forming accumulative toxic substance. As little
as one breath is known to produce a life-long addiction to the gas, which addiction invariably ends in death.--Isaac Asimov
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:32 am Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
Here in Northern New England, winter's fat ass showed up at the end of November and hasn't budged.
I've not seen snow like this in twenty years.
I wish I could post a pic of the house. We have snow up to the roof in back.
No butt-ass cold this year, but continual seasonal icy cold. and snow, snow, snow.
Lately, the temp.'s been getting fickle and we get rain on top of snow.
Last week we had an ice storm and I ended up driving an ambulance in the middle of it.
Went sideways down the road.
I could write a book about it. _________________ "By the time individuals discover that remaining resources will not be adequate for the next generation, the next generation has already been born. " David Price
Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 6079 Location: Rural Virginia
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:20 am Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
According to the anomaly map posted on page 7 of this forum, even Maine has had an above-average-temperature winter, as has about two thirds of the area of the lower 48 states.
Once cold gets below a certain level and there's abundant snow, the normal human perception is that, hey, it's a cold winter (as indeed, from the human perspective, it is). But the reality---nature's reality as written in the long-terms trends and their impacts---may be quite different. _________________ "Actually, humans died out long ago."
---Abused, abandoned hunting dog
"Things have entered a stage where the only change that is possible is for things to get worse."
---Me and my brother
Joined: Mar 26, 2005 Posts: 3673 Location: over here
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:49 am Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
narcisses along with some other spring flowers are flowering here two months early in Nederland. _________________ "The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:26 am Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
I think in Lodon we have about 4 or 5 days of frost in the mornings. The past two weeks is the first time Ive had my jersey on when cycling in the morning, so the temps have been above 5C.
Im not native to Lonon but its been rather warm by my thinking. We are probibly going to have about 3 weeks worth of winter.
Give it a week and we will likely be in spring. However our weather can be very strongly influenced by wind direction, if the air is being pulled in from the South the weather is one hell of alot warmet than a notherly wind. That kinda cuts too the bone a bit.
Joined: Jan 30, 2008 Posts: 55 Location: St. Louis
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:24 pm Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
St. Louis is being pelted with a nasty combination of sleet, freezing rain, ice, and snow. We had some overnight, we're having some now until three in the afternoon, and another system coming out of the four corners tomorrow. I'm ready for spring.
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:43 am Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
It seems certain now that the current winter season , Dec-Feb, will be the warmest ever measured in the southeast of Sweden. And Stockholm measurements go back over 250 yrs.
Currently it is sunny, strong westerly winds, and temps at +8 C in Stockholm. Not a speck of ice or snow. Now should be the height of winter. This is at the 59th latitude, very close to the latitude of Anchorage, Alaska.
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It's supposed to snow on wednesday. 
It is February, after all.
