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Communism and it's problematic ideology is about more than just a difference of economies. All the same, globalist puppets like Biden are working towards the "Chinese model" where the masses are controlled by the elite class. Similar was the former USSR. Moves that put others in control of our fate (OPEC+ for instance) are a step in that direction and anti-American.

Do you have any idea what this means? In lament terms, it basically solidifies the fact that the "cartel" group called OPEC now is in a perfect position to destroy any farther opportunities of keeping prices low. When Trump was in office he knew D**n well that whoever controls the oil supply, controls their nations national security and will drive gas prices low! Russia needs oil to be above $50/bbl to be profitable, the UAE needs it at $20 so they weren't terribly effected. This was a great play by Trump because Russia was loosing billions of dollars, esp in the nat gas play selling nat gas to Poland and other European countries. The U.S. is the worlds leading Oil exporter in crude and natural gas. Now, since Biden took into office, every single country is taking advantage of his idiotic moves in the oil/gas industry and likely future moves. All of us will see the fate of $80-100 barrel prices in oil bc of the fact that OPEC now will be in control. It's unbelievably sad and frustrating watching all of this play out. I cringe when I see our country being used and abused when we could still be producing enormous amounts of crude but not anymore. They say we have a 100 years worth of oil just in the Rockies alone. So much untapped potential.

63 now my forecasted HI for next tuesday.

I'm sorry, but if the current terminology is confusing to you then you're just dumb. "Plain language headlines", so does that mean an actual headline or just an announcement on the website or social media?

Once again, sw Iowa is another world compared to east-central Iowa. SW Iowa has already soared into the 60s again this morning while we are still in the 30s... about ten degrees behind yesterday's rise.

I didn't know what you were talking about, then I saw a tweet from NWS Hastings. How much simpler do we need to make things? My gosh. The dumbing down of America continues. If you can't figure out this terminology, you should probably pay more attention in English classes. I showed this to one of our English teachers and she thought it was a joke.

This morning's Euro is even colder over here Friday than it is today. The snow cover and east flow off the lakes is really hurting us.

This morning's Euro has mid 70s up to Omaha Tuesday. Wednesday it has a few spots approaching 80º. Other models are quicker with the front and would be much less warm in NE Wednesday.

12z GFS looks nothing like this (40s and a little rain) but I'll cash out on the 6z for a season finale

High of 69 in Lincoln today.....niiice.

Still have a few big piles around town and I snapped this pic when it was 70 this afternoon. It’s felt bizarre to have some very warm weather and turn around there’s still patches of snow.

I’m all for green energy and waste-to-energy. In fact, I’m in the process of sourcing funding for a hydrogen waste energy project here in the US. Trump was looking out for the best interests of America and not the global elite oil tycoons. If he was still in office, I can bet with confidence oil would not be trading at $60+ per barrel. The reason why there was a glut of oil in March/April of last year was because demand tanked due to the pandemic and the costs storing the oil was significantly more. Traders sold the oil at a loss so they wouldn’t carry the storage costs. That was an anomaly bc of the global lock downs. Sure, some businesses shut down when oil was priced low but it did not out weigh the benefits of low priced oil. The world will eventually shift towards green tech but it has to be done slowly and without governments forcing the issue, esp not how the “green new deal” would be implemented by AOC, Bernie and the rest of the Lib’s.

Imagine how disappointed I am. My racing jet skis burn about 7 gallons of premium fuel an hour. I think people who don't realize what Trump was doing are just going to say "just buy an electric car" without realizing there are semi trucks that get 2mpg delivering all their food and goods to them. At least I rode them a ton last year and took advantage of it. I think we will go back to those things costing me over $50/hr to run by the time you add the oil (it's a two stroke) and pay for premium gas.

Yes, today was much colder than yesterday... low 50s with no wind to low 40s and wind. Friday might have less wind, but it'll still be chilly. We don't really warm up again until Sunday.

I should have said "wintry" month instead of just cold. 2014, 2008, and 1982 all featured cold and snowstorms with deep snow OTG inn March. It's a shoulder season month but those 3 years it leaned more towards winter.

As stated he took it down. He takes it down at end of every winter season. Likes to focus on winter storms and then fish the rest of the season

The storm that hit So Cal yesterday tracked just enough far north that it missed the valley but hit the mountains with some meager amounts of snowfall (1-4"). Any moisture is good moisture in my book. The cool down in the 60's won't last because a nice ridge quickly pushes in and temps shoot up into the mid 80's Thu-Sun. The benefits of coming out here in the Spring time is the instantaneous transition into summer like weather. March weather can be volatile, however, and I'm anticipating some storms later next week to hopefully deliver moisture into the valley.

He took it down. Will be back next winter or potentially if a storm would develop in the next month.

Here blizzard blizzard

Look at Nebraska today.

Made it to 70 today!!!!

Once again, this is the time of year that I'm so jealous of Nebraska weather. It's always so much warmer than in eastern Iowa.

Currently 68.2 in my backyard. Might crack 70 today! 2 weeks ago, I dropped down to -24 and some spots in the area were -30. Only a 100 degree difference in 2 weeks!

Eastern IA seems to be the ideal place if you want to hold on to snow cover forever lol.

I'm kind of torn now. I am nearly in spring mode because I have flowers coming up already. One last blizzard would be kinda nice, but after the forecasted high of 60 on Tuesday.... Ugh

The snow-free region of southern/southwestern Iowa continues to easily soar into the 50s while the deep snow pack area east-central Iowa is stuck in the low 40s.

February stats from my backyard. Average low: 8.2 9.9 degrees below average Coldest low: -23.6 (2/16) Average high: 27.2 10.9 degrees below average Warmest high: 57.4 (2/27) Average temp: 17.7 10.4 degrees below average .89" of precip and 12.6" of snow. Total snowfall through the winter so far is 38.3" Had 1 winter storm warning, 2 wind chill warnings, 4 wind chill advisories, 4 winter weather advisories, 1 dense fog advisory, and 1 aerial flood watch for ice jams!! Also had 11 nights at or below zero for the low and one daily high below zero.

"Mid March Madness"...the pattern is to ramp up and turn very active post 10th and there is a decent signal among the EPS/GEFS members that some late season snows are on the table. I believe the pattern is ripe for nature to spin up a powerhouse storm by mid month if things line up just right from the Plains up into the Northwoods. There is going to be a lot of late season cold lurking across the U.S./Canadian border and early Spring warmth will likely provide the fuel to produce a juicy system right around the 15th or so. 00z EPS...

Done screwed this thread up!! Politics and great sandwiches. Thought this was a complaint thread. Too funny.

One of the perks of living up north is having to benefit from snow-on-snow events. It's very difficult to get them down here. The only winter in recent memory was the infamous 2013-14 season where it snowed almost every 2-3 days it seemed like. For the most part, they were 2-4", 3-6" events with a couple big ones around the New Year and in January. I agree, I don't care how they come so long we can generate a deep snow pack.

You forgot the N comes before the I. Whoops! I edited the quote for you so don't say I don't do charity.

Woah!

The midweek system is kinda turning to crap for Iowa. Instead of a strong, wound-up system, at least the GFS, GFSv16, and GDPS have trended toward a weak system with just some showers along a cold front, then the action behind it gets suppressed.

I have a website too and they never stop trying to log in via SSH. They've been spamming with me bulk emails to buy cheap masks in bulk for at least a year. It started before most people actually cared what Covid was. I actually used cloudflare to ban the entire country of China, but there's a lot of big services that depend on China so you can't without bad repercussions. They're always trying to scrape all my content, gain access to my servers, etc.