New England got a severe blast of arctic air this weekend. Wind chills dragged already cold temps into dangerous territory. It got so cold that parts of Maine expected temperatures not reached in forty years.
NPRs headline reads, “Parts of Maine are experiencing the coldest temperatures in 40 years.”
Wicked cold in New England. Temperatures fell last night between 10 to 20 degrees below zero in much of Maine. Strong winds made it feel much colder. As Murray Carpenter reports from Maine Public Radio, the weather is leading to cancellations and warnings.
The National Weather Service was predicting some of the coldest windchill temperatures in decades for much of Maine.
I had to click on that headline because it’s NPR. National Pravda Radio, Nancy Pelosi Radio, pick your favorite; it’s all the same. Whenever possible, fit the approved narrative into the reporting but not this time. The conversation was around cold cancelations or outdoor activities delayed by the risk these temps present. And not even a tittle about your SUV being to blame.
So I looked around, and they had a second story titled, “Arctic chill brings record low temperatures to the Northeast.”
In New Hampshire, the peak of Mount Washington on Friday night hit minus 47 degrees Fahrenheit, tying with the lowest temperature ever recorded at the station atop the state’s highest mountain — known for its extreme weather — first set in 1934, a year after recordings began, according to the Mount Washington Observatory.
The Mount Washington summit’s windchill — how cold the temperature feels — recorded an all-time record low of minus 108 degrees, said the National Weather Service. The reading was so extreme, the agency said, that it created errors in its software. The National Weather Service’s office in Maine said the windchill temperature sets a U.S. record.
There is no mention of irresponsible western lifestyles in this piece, which has me wondering. Did I miss a memo? Did someone at NPR decide that tying extreme cold to their warming lies made them look like dopes?
Getting wet is a sign of dryness!
New Hampshire’s Local Chapter, NHPR, had several stories parroting the same. Record cold, stay inside, locations of warming centers for the “unhoused” (that’s a new one for me), and no Climate Cult hijinks.
I’m not holding my breath, but we give credit where due. Thank you for focusing on the story and the impacts and the resources and leaving your bankrupting little fake-green crusade out of it.
As for ‘Unhoused?” I’m picturing a gargantuan peeling the roof off a home, picking the people out, and setting them in some downtown tent city (instead of eating them as they did in the movie).
No house for you. Talk about sanitizing a problem.
