Snowstorm squelches climate change protest - Salt Lake Tribune

A downtown protest of the climate change talks in Copenhagen became a victim of Wednesday's snowstorm.

"Not many people showed up because of the blizzard conditions," said organizer Clea Major, an international studies student at the University of Utah.

It didn't take long for the six friends to pack up a bullhorn and posters they'd planned to use for their "scream-in," an outlet for their frustration about the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks earlier this month to curb the pollution blamed for climate change.
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She called Wednesday evening's effort a success and possibly the first in a series. As for the snow, it's not entirely new; a protest she attended last year in Washington, D.C., suffered a similar fate.

"There is always the irony element," Major said.

More snowfall is expected - Salt Lake Tribune

Snow accumulated in much of northern Utah. Alta reported 16 inches, Solitude 10, Park City 8 and Snowbasin 10 between Tuesday and Wednesday.

With the powder piling up, the Utah Avalanche Center issued an advisory warning of increased danger, thanks to the snowfall, winds and a "very fragile and weak" base.

[From Obama's home town]: Stroger Hospital offers cold weather safety tips - chicagotribune.com

CHICAGO - Doctors at Chicago's Stroger Hospital say precautions are necessary as cold winter weather brings below-zero wind chills into Illinois.

The National Weather Service has forecast wind chills as low as zero to 10 degrees below zero on Thursday and Friday in the Chicago area. Doctors at Stroger Hospital say such low temperatures can be dangerous, causing frostbite and hypothermia.

Frostbite does and don'ts : News : KHQA

Later this week, temperatures will plummet into the teens during the day...and into the single and negative digits at night.

That means it's important to be on the lookout for signs and symptoms of frostnip and frostbite.

Weather raises concerns about winter kill in wheat

Unseasonably cold temperatures earlier this month raised wheat growers' concerns about potential cold damage to cereal crops.

Area cereal crop experts, Mary K. Corp and Larry Lutcher, Oregon State University extension agronomists, say the effects of the recent cold temperatures on the winter wheat crop will show up as black or a dark shade of purple on wimpy leaves.