It’s COLD!

Not everywhere, of course.  Here in Tucson it’s been near normal with some days above and some below.  Today should be about 70 which is a good 6 or 7 degrees above normal.  However, it’s been cold and snowy enough so far this Winter that nearby Mt. Lemmon is having another good ski season!  With last weekends storm they say they now have enough snow at Ski Valley to last until Spring.

In other parts of the country it has been extreme snow.  So much snow that avalanches are causing problems for some ski areas and even some deaths.  Here is that story.

On the “Glabal Warming” front, it’s quite the opposite.  Alaska, known for it’s cold in the Winter is having an unusual bitter cold arctic outbreak.  Here’s an article from AP on Yahoo! News.

Alaskans are accustomed to subzero temperatures but the prolonged conditions have folks wondering what’s going on with winter less than a month old.

How cold is it?

Johnson lives in Stevens Village, where residents have endured close to two weeks of temperatures pushing 60 below zero.

In Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city, residents are used to lows of about 10-degree temperatures in January — not 19 below zero, which is what folks awoke to Wednesday morning.

Temperatures finally settled to about 10 below at midday, but that was cold enough to cancel races in the U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships.

More evidence that its the Sun that causing all of this cooling.  As it continues to be less active, we on Earth continue to cool.  This article from the Daily Mail in England outlines how scientists are concerned about less solar wind.  The solar wind protects the inner solar system from Cosmic Rays.  Weaker solar wind means more danger for astronauts.  It also makes sense that a quieter Sun means less solar radiation.  It follows that that would cause the Earth to cool!

I’m still hoping that folks would see that light. I believe many of them are. We need to contact our representatives in Washington and stop the plans to tax CO2. What a waste of money, especially when the country is going broke! We really need to be developing our energy resources yesterday so that we can keep warm in the chilly decades to come!

Astronauts returning to the moon could be threatened by cosmic rays as a result of the sun becoming less active, scientists have said.

The sun’s ability to shield the solar system from harmful radiation could falter in the early 2020s, research from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology claimed.

It’s cold in space and it’s getting colder down here too.