Unseasonably Cold Temps Continue

Much Of Country Still Cold Into April, Snow Near Great Lakes; Cleveland Games Moved

(CBS/AP)  It didn't feel like April in much of the country Monday morning, with unseasonably cold temperatures and, near the Great Lakes, snow.

The cold snap also put a chill on Easter Sunday services across the Southeast and much of the rest of the country, moving some events indoors and adding layers over spring frocks.

Even baseball had to take another time out — because of snow.

"Most of the country is still chillier than normal ... 10 to 15 degrees below normal," CBS News Early Show weatherman Dave Price said Monday. Up to 2 inches more snow was possible for the Great Lakes region.

This Easter Sunday the weather felt more like Christmas, reports CBS News correspondent Joie Chen. Even in the nation's capital, well-known for its fickle temperatures, the cold snap has been a stunner, coming at what ought to be the peak of its much loved cherry blossom season.

Across much of the eastern two-thirds of the nation, Easter celebrants swapped frills, bonnets and sandals for coats, scarves and heavy socks. Baseball fans huddled in blankets and, instead of spring planting, backyard gardeners were bundling their crops.

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  See pictures from last week's spring snowstorm in the Plains and New England

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Two weeks into spring, Easter morning temperatures were in the upper 30s along the Gulf Coast and in the single digits in northern Minnesota and the Dakotas. Atlanta had a low of 30 degrees, with a wind chill of 23, the National Weather Service said. The same reading hit New York City's Fifth Avenue, celebrated in song for the traditional Easter Parade of spring finery.

Despite the chill, nearly 1,000 people attended the annual sunrise service at Georgia's Stone Mountain Park, as a slight breeze whipped over the granite monument. The service usually attracts 10,000.

Later in the afternoon, about 5,000 people braved the wind and chill in Homer, a small town in the foothills of the north Georgia mountains that claims one of the nation's largest Easter egg hunts.

"We've had cold weather before, but this might have been the coldest," said Sandra Garrison, whose family hid more than 100,000 plastic eggs on their farm, continuing a 48-year tradition. "They had their coats on for sure."

Nashville, Tenn., bottomed out Sunday at 23 degrees, knocking one degree off the Easter Sunday record set March 24, 1940.

Children dug through snow with mittened hands to find Easter eggs scattered across the town square Saturday in hard-hit Chardon, east of Cleveland, where about 16 inches had fallen.

[rf35]

In New Mexico, I woke up Saturday to 2 inches of snow and some very confused birds. We've had a very unusual winter. Warmer than average much of the time, but with the most snow anyone here can remember. In January, we set a record with over a foot of snow...even the old-timers couldn't recall getting that much snow in one storm. I don't care whether it's El Nino, global warming, or whatever, I just want it to warm up already!

Of course this is, somehow, Bush's fault!

[processor2]

I live in North Carolina, and woke up Saturday morning at 7:30am with 3 inches of snow on the ground and a temperature of 22 degrees

Sure am looking forward to some "global warming" to help out with my heating bills.

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[obiquital]

This cold weather must be global warming's fault... no wait... nature still affects the weather far more than we do.

[liberalgirl]

HAH! This is why I love California...around 78 here! Too bad you couldn't enjoy it, dig that snow.

[bernieb14]

Coldest Easter ever recorded here in Northeast Florida.

GLOBAL WARMING AT WORK, HUH!! YEAH RIGHT!! NOTHING BUT HYPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[bernieb14]

vbnvbn

You too have caught on to what the hype is all about. It's all about the money!!

[bernieb14]

Where are all you global warming nut cases now? Cold got your tongue stuck to the flagpole?

[hawksprings]

Look at this article about chilling out over Global Warming, it's pretty good:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17997788/site/newsweek/

Too bad CBS can't run something like this, although I'm surprised it's on MSNBC...

[hspumanti]

Global warming is not just about temperature change. It's the effects of those changes to the stability of the climate. It affects wind and sea currents which can affect local climate temperatures in either direction. Take last years hurricane season which turned out to be a dud because of an unexpected el nino.

[bernieb14]

HawkSprings

Good article. I too am surprise MSNBC actually published it.

[bwessels]

It's amazing how many stupid people confuse anecdotal evidence with science. It's distressing how many of them comment here.

[bernieb14]

Isn't it amazing how all the global warming believers aren't commenting on this today? Usually the left wing nut cases are all over this blog site.

[processor2]

I live in North Carolina, and woke up on an April Saturday morning at 7:30am with 3 inches of snow on the ground & a temperature of 22 degrees

Sure am looking forward to some "global warming" to help out with my heating bills.

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[colonieny]

Global Warming.

How can we judge ?

[bernieb14]

"THE WORLD IS FLAT AND YOU'LL FALL OFF THE EDGE IF YOU SAIL TOO FAR"

Left wing nut case jargon 500 years ago!!

[MIpapaof4]

Just maybe that the United States is not part of the globe. As I see it, global warming would affect every one, where ever they may be. Here in the Unites States, it is much colder than normal. So where's the heat. All the hot air is confined to Washington D.C.

[silver9991]

Isn't it amazing how all the global warming believers aren't commenting on this today? Usually the left wing nut cases are all over this blog site.
Posted by bernieb14 at 12:03 PM : Apr 09, 2007

Maybe it's because this topic isn't about GLOBAL warming (or cooling, for that matter). It's not about climate, it's about a local weather perturbation.

[silver9991]

"THE WORLD IS FLAT AND YOU'LL FALL OFF THE EDGE IF YOU SAIL TOO FAR"

Left wing nut case jargon 500 years ago!!
Posted by bernieb14 at 12:30 PM : Apr 09, 2007

Sorry bernieb, but Copernicus and Galileo were the Radical Libs of their time.

[erasmus6]

I don't think I have seen this many no-minds gathered in one place before.

I feel sorry for your children and grandchildren. They are going to look back and think- "Why did I have such ignorant ****heads for parents?"

[processor2]

I live in North Carolina, and woke up on an April Saturday morning at 7:30am with 3 inches of snow on the ground & a temperature of 22 degrees

Sure am looking forward to some "global warming" to help out with my heating bills.

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[silver9991]

Look at this article about chilling out over Global Warming, it's pretty good:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17997
788/site/newsweek/

Too bad CBS can't run something like this, although I'm surprised it's on MSNBC...
Posted by HawkSprings at 11:19 AM : Apr 09, 2007


Thanks, HawkSprings. Finally I'm seeing some "hold the reins" on the global warming discussion that 1) has a writer who actually seems to know something about science and 2) doesn't have that deep-seated insecurity issue that makes him/her label anyone who disagrees with him/her a "Liberal" or whatever childish ammo is easy to hand.

"Looking back on the earth's climate history, it's apparent that there's no such thing as an optimal temperature%u2014a climate at which everything is just right."

They agree we ARE warming. One thing not delved into is the fact that the very northerly/southerly climes are being impacted the most, and with the increase in population they WILL be impacted. Rainfall patterns are impacted, and again there are a lot more people around. Bear in mind the Earth itself don't care, and will fluctuate anyway.

Again, thanks for the link. It's a good start for a conversation, if that's possible around here.

[bernieb14]

erasmus6

You're the only one on this blog without any sense from what I can tell.

[tucano2]

We have no idea what your story is about - it was eighty degrees here yesterday which is about 20 degrees ABOVE normal/ "Here" = 7,000 feet in Southern California mountains.

[hawksprings]

erasmus6, read this article, and then come back and post your thoughts on it:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17997788/site/newsweek/

[erasmus6]

didntinhale
How many more times are you going to repeat the same post on this site?
I will leave and let you dumb****s do what you dumb****s do best!-----live in denial!

[erasmus6]

Oh and one last thing. To the person that said something about HawkSprings not talking about the Liberals or whatever: Yeah Right! If I recall he usually does, that and Al Gore!

[processor2]

I live in North Carolina, and woke up on an April Saturday morning at 7:30am with 3 inches of snow on the ground & a temperature of 22 degrees

Sure am looking forward to some "global warming" to help out with my heating bills.

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[silver9991]

I think I'm going to just ignore didntinhale until he simply just learns how to spell "capitalistic". He spells it wrong so frequently it can't be a mere typo. (PS kid, I don't think anyone except you has brought up capitalism in this thread, perhaps seeing bogeymen where they don't exist.)

[erasmus6]

HawkSprings
Ok, I read the article. It says that the earth is always warming by a few tenths of a degree a year. What I see is this: Where I live it isn't a few tenths. Where I live the change in the weather hasn't been gradual. The temperature has been waaaaay warmer in the summer and this winter we have had rain to the extreme, flooding to the extreme and wind storms one after the other to the extreme.
We are going into other countries and burning down forests so we can raise more beef for our greedy stomachs. We are polluting our waters and air. Do you not think that there are consequences for this? Have you watched "An Inconvenient Truth?" They show graphs of the changes. It shows the ups and downs of the warming but it also shows the MAJOR spike in that warming now. Anyways the point is that even if you don't believe it, it doesn't hurt to try and clean up our messes does it?
We are talking about hundreds of scientists to a very few if any that disagree. I tend to believe the many and what I see with my own eyes.
The person who wrote that article was funded by the U.S. government, I rest my case. Bush does not want you to see the truth.

[erasmus6]

didntinhale
And as for you, even HawkSprings has more intelligence that you!

[erasmus6]

You remind me of my dad when he was in his eighties, he too repeated himself over and over and over...........

[erasmus6]

That's what happens when you start losing your mind, didntinhale

[erasmus6]

didntinhale
Of course you didn't print the part where you were slamming Canada first, did you. And what I was printing is not my view, I am repeating what I hear. Like when my daughter was going to Europe and was told to wear a Canadian flag pin because they all hate the Americans over there. I am afraid it is you that is Anti Canadian. And a liberal homophobe I am not. I think you are speaking of yourself. AND as for raving......

[processor2]

I live in North Carolina, and woke up on an April Saturday morning at 7:30am with 3 inches of snow on the ground & a temperature of 22 degrees

Sure am looking forward to some "global warming" to help out with my heating bills.

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[erasmus6]

didntinhale
Anyone with half a brain who reads your posts has to recognize that you are on the edge...

[erasmus6]

You are joking right? Protection and security?
Your country has done a bang up job so far of protecting your own never mind somebody elses country. No I have to say that your country will probably be the destruction of us both.

[erasmus6]

didninhale
I just got to thinking, I bet the people in Europe hate the Americans because they have met too many people like you. I feel sorry for your fellow Americans.

[erasmus6]

And of course all my posts have been AFTER you have slammed me and my country.
Yes it is truly sad that a country has to be judged by the ignorant few that they meet.

[hawksprings]

So when are we going to invade Canada anyway?
How does next Tuesday look? Should only take a few hours.

[erasmus6]

Yes, I doubt that you would lose any sleep, people without conscience rarely do.

[erasmus6]

I think that the American people should expel people like you from their country, you give them a bad name. Only please don't send them our way....or maybe you should!

[erasmus6]

As fun as this has been I really must go, I do have other things that I need to do. Reading the same thing over and over becomes very boring. It would be nice if there was some intelligent views for a change, but I can see that today it is the same old c-r-a-p, except for a few.

[teeus]

Wish this were more of a challenge =(
Posted by didntinhale

Here's a challenge for you--try responsing to posts without name calling, profanity or vulgarity.

Careful, now. Your head may explode.

[gaye5]

HawkSprings, unfortunately I cant get that link to come up on my computer, any other way of getting it???
I for one do not believe in this global warming propaganda. as I have said before, I believe that if it was so and IF we had learned men in government, that they would either know or be told that the answer to te CO problem is planting more trees, and as we need trees for our every day needs, then keep replacing trees start reclaim the desert with trees as Israel has done, plant where we dont use the ground, etc... trees give of oxygen, and obsorb WHAT, no it couldnt possibly be CO's...Oh dear what a simple answer...plant trees...

[gaye5]

Mark Twain once complained that a lie can make it half way around the world before the truth gets its boots on.
Climate-change activists and Democrats on Capitol Hill are gearing up to push the U.S. to limit so-called greenhouse gases, why when the cause is more than likely the sun which is going through a hot cycle...
I wonder if the reason that both our right winged governments are doing nothing about it is because they know that the cause is not humans????
Dr Sami Solanki, the director of the renowned Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Gottingen, Germany, who led the research, said: "The Sun has been at its strongest over the past 60 years and may now be affecting global temperatures.

Plus the earth changing its magnetic balance.. see August 01, 2002 - (date of web publication)
SATELLITES REVEAL A MYSTERY OF LARGE CHANGE IN EARTH'S GRAVITY FIELD

Even the DISTINGUISHED botanist David Bellamy has branded fears about global warning as "the biggest scam to hit the world".
Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says
Kate Ravilious for National Geographic News
February 28, 2007.............

[mainemade]

I Love Spring! The robins flying, the trees showing buds, and the 16 inch snowstorm right before Easter! It was great! No power for 36 hours, no phone for 24. It was fun driving to work on roads with 6 inches of snow on them and the trees snapping like twigs over head. But to a long lived Mainer...it's just one of the many beauties of living here. I know it happens and camping out in the living room is a great adventure.

[teeus]

"...lie can make it half way around the world..."

True enough, but you should have included your DISTINGUSHED Source in the liar group:

"...last week I telephoned the World Glacier Monitoring Service and read out Bellamy's letter... A few hours later, they sent me an email: "Despite his scientific reputation, he makes all the mistakes that are possible." He had cited data that was simply false, he had failed to provide references, he had completely misunderstood the scientific context and neglected current scientific literature. The latest studies show unequivocally that most of the world's glaciers are retreating... "

[sy2502]

The problem is that they will use this as an argument in favor of global warming, just that instead of calling it global warming, they will say "climate changes", so that either way it goes, cold or warm, they can still say "I told you so". The argument on global warming is going the same way of the cholesterol and low-fat diets: every day the so-called experts give a different interpretation of what they see, just because they can't admit that they really don't have a clue.

[erasmus6]

didntinhale
Still at it I see.
"I love getting alternate points of view."
What a pile of c-r-a-p, to you there is only one view, yours.

[mainemade]

30 Degrees? And they are complaining? That's a heatwave...bring it on!!