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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:18 AM

Prince George, B.C. – So what’s up with the weather? 
Environment Canada’s Jim Steele says while Prince George was close to breaking an overnight cold record, it fell short “The old record for March 10th was -33.3 set back in 1956, and we were -32.9.” In Mackenzie, the temperature dropped to -37 overnight.
“It’s not that we haven’t been in this territory before” says Steele, “It’s just that we don’t want to go there” Steele points to some previously cold March temps; in 2002, and again in 2003, temps dipped from -20 to -30 and on the 8th of March in 2003 it was -30.6. In 1976, there was one day in March the temperature plunged to -34.7.  The coldest March day on record was March 24th in 1955 when it was -37.8!
Steele says we are victims of two cold bodies of water “There are colder than normal waters near the equator and colder than normal temperatures in the gulf of Alaska so it has more to do with ocean patterns than anything else.” Steele says its like the stock market  “It’s all over the map.”
The good news?   “It’s a beautiful sunny day today and tomorrow. The high tomorrow will be -11 and Thursday will see a high of -3 so that will almost seem balmy compared to this morning’s cold”.
For the long term, Steele says it looks like April and May will be “on the edge of colder than normal temperatures.”

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Comment Posted by: duffer on March 10 2009 11:38 AM
Isn't this global warming wonderful? I'm sitting here beside the pool with my shorts on. (Wishful thinking). We should bring Al Gore up here and hear the spin he would put on it.
Comment Posted by: hammmy on March 10 2009 12:11 PM
If it was 33 above right now then I would be worried!
Comment Posted by: gus on March 10 2009 1:00 PM
Its GLOBAL warming. The average daily temperature of the entire globe. Local fluctuations will vary from place to place and time to time.

Notice how nice and clear and crisp the air is today, with the spring sun radiating down it feels warmer that it is when in the sun.

VERY enjoyable. Wish more of the winter would have been like this.

Of course, get too much of this still air and the pollution starts to collect again.
Comment Posted by: Harbinger on March 10 2009 2:19 PM
If "local fluctuations will vary from place to place and time to time". Isn't that just "natural " weather patterns then? Why do I have to pay a tax on that? What a scam!
Comment Posted by: Howrd_B_Stern on March 10 2009 2:22 PM
I don't think global warming has to do primarily with just temperatures.

Is it "normal" to see a temperature fluctuation of 36 degrees C in a 24 hour period that they are predicting for later this week? How about the fact that the majority of our snowfall fell in very few days?

Those are the questions I want answered.
Comment Posted by: gus on March 10 2009 2:31 PM
A friend of mine told me she was going to ask God to test this City's snow removal capability.

I thought she was kidding.

Then we got these massive snowfalls on several occassions with virtually no melting.

So I am thinking, this gal has pull in high places.
Comment Posted by: gus on March 10 2009 2:36 PM
As far as GLOBAL warming. It is difficult to believe in Global warming if one believes the earth is flat.
Comment Posted by: duffer on March 10 2009 3:59 PM
The world is flat. Haven't you notice when people leave town they never come back. By the way, "global warming" has been going on since the beginning of time or hasn't anyone noticed before? We used to be in an ice age at one time did we not? What a bunch of crap this money making scare tactic is.
Comment Posted by: rvuser on March 10 2009 4:30 PM
So how are all you guys going to vote in the next election? For the gang who imposed the carbon tax or the gang that's suggesting a cap & trade scheme?

Maybe we can convince everyone that c02 is not the culprit if in fact there is a culprit.
Comment Posted by: acrider54 on March 10 2009 5:14 PM
Yeah and in 1956 there must have been global warming as well when it was +15 in Prince George. Thanks Gordon Campbell and crew for the Carbon Tax. Idiots.
Comment Posted by: Harbinger on March 10 2009 5:15 PM
Maybe if every one stopped exhaling CO2 maybe the earth will cool down. Is it warm out or is it me?
Comment Posted by: socredible on March 10 2009 8:24 PM
Why do I only have a choice between a 'carbon tax' or a 'cap and trade scheme' when I don't want EITHER? Two groups that want to be "our" representatives, or so they say. But they're both out to govern to get what THEY want, not what WE want. And however it's done, what has taxing us to do with stopping global warming anyways? Doesn't that just get us all heated up over what we're told we have to pay, and make it worse?
Comment Posted by: Lamb on March 10 2009 8:47 PM
Well whatever it is we are all in it together whatever our beliefs are.
Comment Posted by: Loki on March 11 2009 10:20 AM
if it was 33 above, then the bitching would be, "oh my god it's so hot!"

Its just friggin' weather, dress for it.
Comment Posted by: acrider54 on March 11 2009 4:17 PM
I like 33 above -33 sucks
Comment Posted by: Harbinger on March 12 2009 2:26 PM
More Global Warming to shovel today. March 12