Summary
A historic winter storm swept through southern U.S. cities, bringing record-breaking snowfall and widespread disruptions.
Memphis, Tennessee, experienced 7.5 inches (19 cm) of snow, the city’s largest single-day snowfall in 40 years. Atlanta, Georgia, recorded 2.1 inches (5.3 cm), the most in seven years. Other areas were hit even harder, with Arkansas receiving up to 14 inches (35.6 cm), Oklahoma up to 12 inches (30.5 cm), Texas up to 10 inches (25.4 cm), and northern Alabama around 5 inches (12.7 cm).
The storm caused significant travel chaos, with over 300 flight cancellations in Georgia and icy road warnings issued in Tennessee, Texas, and other states.
As the storm moves northward, sub-zero wind chills are expected to grip parts of the U.S. next week.
I used to live in the south. Even in an area heavily populated by northerners, folks DID NOT know how to drive in the slightest bit of snow. I just left home early and laughed.
I also found it amusing when I first heard “snowflake” used as an insult, and have chucked internally each time since. In the south, snowflakes are hated, but more than that, they’re feared, and bringers of “chaos” if you refuse to learn how to interact harmoniously with them. Using “snowflake” as an insult says much more about the speaker than it does about you. I am proud to be a snowflake!
A lot of the problem here isn’t snow, or people not knowing how to drive in it. It’s that when it does snow, the temperature tends to barely be freezing. Then the snow starts to melt the next day only for all of the melt to become ice that night.
So mUcH fOr GlObAl WaRmInG.
That’s a big reason why Global Warming is not a good name. Climate change or climate disruption is much better at conveying that the climate is changing in an abnormal way, instead of just warming up.
The planet is warming though, so the term is not without merit. We have headlines every day about 1.5C of warming. The problem has always been that the earth’s systems are too complicated for regular folks and they don’t understand that a more energetic system can produce all sorts of anomalies in any given location. There’s no magical term that will resonate with denialists anyway so why bother trying?
It’s one less argument for them to use. Just think of all these morons conflating weather and climate, and denying climate change because “snow in my garden”.
Words and language have a massive power over people’s minds, might as well use them in a way to reduce confusion.
“They used to call it global warming…”
Yeah it was hot as fuck until december totally normal
I don’t really pay attention to the whole climate thing. But I have a co worker that always screams about global warming when it’s hot, but when it’s cold it’s just weather
Cool story bro
Global average temperature sets a new record high about every year. It’s definitely warming which causes all sorts of strange aftereffects like extreme weather changes both hot and cold in localized areas.
Republicans will cut funding because it’s the States fault, right?
is it journalistic malpractice to not so much as mention climate change in an article about this topic?
It’s not good, but I can see why. If they did they’d be flooded with denialist comments, and I understand not wanting that. I don’t agree though, should absolutely be mentioned no matter the denialist idiots.
People won’t like facts so let’s not publish facts?
Sorry, but fuck that. Facts, always.
But snow isn’t warm!
Hear me out: What if we take the fires in LA and put them in the South?
Get a sharpie and draw them over there.
