It may be a four-day work week for many, but the continuing weather—with temperatures dipping into single-digit territory—could make the next three days seem lengthy.
On Tuesday night, temperatures in the Lower Hudson Valley sank to 9 degrees, prompting meteorologists to declare the cold front the worst in recent years.
Students at Nanuet High School were evacuated for about 10 minutes Tuesday morning due to a fire alarm, but didn't take to the outdoor sports fields as usual.
Instead, children and teachers waited out the alarm indoors at the nearby middle school due to the gelid weather, according to Cheryl Tully, Administrative Assistant to the Superintendent.
Further south, authorities in Yonkers Tuesday closed Nepperhan Avenue mid-day for icicle removal.
A dusting of snow is expected Wednesday morning and early afternoon with a high of 20-degrees. Wednesday night, the temperature plunging down to ten, but wind chill factors may make it feel -2, according to the National Weather Service.
The warmest weather this week is expected to come Saturday afternoon, with a peak of about 25 degree—still a ways below freezing.
The freezing weather dovetails with a particularly strong flu season, which has officials in Westchester and White Plains administering free vaccinations later this week.
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You're confusing weather with climate. Although related climate change doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to be warm every day. But look around and you'll see the oceans rising, the droughts worsening and an overall shift in the climate. So today it's cold, tomorrow it will snow and then it will be sunny. That's weather, not climate.
As an insect-control scientist I'm very concerned that some clear-thinking genius convinces Fox news that insects are a scam and a hoax. And when I want climate science, armchair Joe from Westchester who's been down the harbor twice is the go to guy. Gosh it must make you clever to be clevererer than those no-nothing science guys. No one is pulling the wool over your eyes eh? Except for yourself.
And yes, ever since the industrial revolution (look up the dates) accelerated deforestation and atmospheric pollution, there's been the man-made consequences on the atmosphere, in addition to the global cycles. In fact, it would be an absolute bloody miracle if all that activity couldn't have affected the climate - unless some magician waved it all away?
"There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production – with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas – parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia – where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon..." http://denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm
You're good with numbers apparently.
Oh wait - there's no political belief conflict there - so no need to get into conspiracy theory alternative explanantions right? Like wackos do.
B) the past ten years was one of the warmest decades on record C) anyone who thinks the pollution we spew out isn't going to affect our environment has absolutely no business discussing climate change