Bike Week: Bad economy, cold weather may mean it was Bike Weak -- OrlandoSentinel.com

However, a cold, rainy spell that started the next day chilled some of that early boom, said Steve Fritze, manager of the Iron Horse Saloon, an anchor for the U.S. Highway 1 stretch of biker bars in northern Ormond Beach.

"If we didn't have those cold nights, we would have had a great week. But I think the cold kept a lot of them out and away," Fritze said.

Famed Hurricane Forecaster William Gray Rips AMS, NASA's Hansen

“Hansen and his legion of environmental-political supporters (with no meteorological-climate background) have done monumental damage to an open and honest discussion of the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) question,” Gray wrote. “He and his fellow collaborators (and their media sycophantic followers) are responsible for the brainwashing of a large segment of the American public about a grossly exaggerated human-induced warming threat that does not exist.”
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Gray also wrote that the AMS had been commandeered by a number of global warming activists, hence the decision to bestow Hansen with the organization’s highest honor.

“We AMS members have allowed a small group of AMS administrators, climate modelers, and CO2 warming sympathizers to maneuver the internal workings of our society to support AGW policies irrespective of what our rank-and-file members might think,” Gray wrote. “This small organized group of AGW sympathizers has indeed hijacked our society.”

Springtime in Minnesota: Record-breaking cold

Arctic cold tracked in on the heels of a late-winter snowstorm pushed temperatures in St. Cloud to 15 below zero just before 7 a.m. today.
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...The old mark for the date, 12 below zero, was set in 1956, according to St. Cloud State University meteorologist Bob Weisman’s records.

The normal high for today is 35. The normal low is 17.

The National Weather Service says lows dropped to 28 below zero in International Falls, 27 below in Hibbing and 17 below in Alexandria and Grand Marais.