Cold Is Weather; Heat Is the Wrath of the Climate Gods - Brendan O’Neill - Planet Gore on National Review Online

The greens who criticize people simply for asking probing questions about snowy weather events employ dastardly double standards. It is okay for them to interpret every hot summer and occasional flood as evidence that eco–Judgement Day is on its way, but it is not okay for anyone else to say: “Hey, it’s snowing. Maybe the warming of the planet isn’t happening as fast as we thought.” The real problem is not “national idiocy” but the way in which the environmentalist powers-that-be are resurrecting, in secular, pseudo-scientific lingo, the old religious idea that freak weather is punishment for mankind’s follies, and arguing that we must all lower our horizons and change our lifestyles if we don’t want to die in a flood or be burnt to a crisp in a bush fire.

Houston expected to dip below 20 degrees | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

The Arctic blast that has gripped the Houston region and much of the state is expected to send temperatures to 20 degrees or below tonight for much of the region.

The National Weather Service predicts readings to drop to between 17 and 20 degrees over the western two-thirds of Harris County, northern Liberty County, all of Fort Bend County and points north. The record for the date is 19, last tied in 1996.

Dead man found in Heights likely victim of exposure

Billings police officers early today found the body of a man who apparently died from exposure in the cold.
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The temperature was 9 degrees with a wind chill factor of minus 30 degrees.

Google Applies to Become Power Marketer - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

The Internet search company, which consumes vast amounts of electricity to run the computers in its data centers, created a subsidiary last month called Google Energy.

Meadville Tribune - Fair barn's collapse not first time for Cover-All

At least five others built by Cover-All or a related company, Summit Structures LLC, have collapsed since 2002 — three of which were due to heavy snow on their roofs, according to the Associated Press.

Cow muck saves farmer from snow death   | News | Farmers Guardian

A THICK layer of cow muck saved a Scottish farmer from certain death yesterday after the roof of his barn, weighed down with several feet of snow, collapsed on top of him.

Despite record cold, likely rain and slight shot at snow, officials put a wildfire watch in effect for this weekend. | Ocala.com | Star-Banner | Ocala, FL

Floridians this week have wrapped themselves in heavy coats, stocked up on space heaters and winterized their gardens and homes. Now it looks like North Central Florida could get another taste of a real winter - snow.

Residents from St. Augustine south to Leesburg may wake up Saturday morning to snow flurries, thanks to successive cold fronts that have chilled the state to the bone and set record lows from the Panhandle to the Space Coast, meteorologists say.

On Thursday morning, Ocala set a record low at 21 degrees, far below the previous record of 28 set in 1928, according to the National Weather Service in Jacksonville. Record lows also were set in Orlando, Gainesville, Melbourne and Vero Beach.