Yesterday morning, in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, we got about 6-7 inches of Snow in the back yard. We know this because of steps which are 7 inches, etc. A tape measure showed 4 and 5/8 inches several hours before it stopped snowing. This was not a drift, as it was accumulation on an elevated deck for a swimming pool. The most it has ever snowed in this area in my mother's lifetime is about 1.5 inches.

In the past, the 3 times that it ever even snowed enough to accumulate at all, the snow was totally melted by the endof the same day. Right now, we still have about 2-4 inches of ice on the ground for as far as the eye can see, except roads and concrete sidewalks, which seem to melt much faster.


I have to wonder if some of it is still going to be around tomorrow when I wake up, at least in the shaded areas where the sun has a poor angle to hit it.

Ice is still on the ground 2 full days later. Never seen anythinglike it here! Isn't even winter yet!

Australia had it's hottest weather (47.C) for a long time. Global warming doesn't mean that everywhere will heat up evenly. Warming moving gulf streams about can actually make places cooler if a coast loses it. Though this year wasn't as hot overall as the last several years (thanks to a sun without sunspots), it was still one of the hottest years ever worldwide. Had the sun being it's normal self, it could have been a mild winter all round and even hotter in Australia.

What benefit would weather scientists have in lying about global warming (other than Bush's tame poodles that is)? They accept it as fact and Obama wants to do something about it.