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Baby it's cold outside ..... - ketchim - 02-19-2015
Bitterly cold air from Siberia has brought dangerously frigid and likely record-setting temperatures
to the eastern half of the US and Canada ::LOL::
Re: Siberia sends Greetings to North America ! - ketchim - 02-19-2015
Icicles form on the White House
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Re: Siberia sends Greetings to North America ! - ketchim - 02-19-2015
Bitter temperatures have also partially frozen Niagara Falls
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Re: Siberia sends Greetings to North America ! - ketchim - 02-19-2015
The new and improved " COLD War "
Lets call a Truce : Detente !
de·tente dÄˈtänt noun
the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.
Re: Siberia sends Greetings to North America ! - ketchim - 02-19-2015
The term is often used in reference to the general easing of the geo-political tensions
between the Soviet Union and the United States which began in 1969,
as a foreign policy of U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford called détente;
a "thawing out" or "un-freezing"
Re: Siberia sends Greetings to North America ! - Captain - 02-19-2015
[size=16px][color=rgb(51, 51, 51)]ONG KONG (MarketWatch) — In an unusual move, China’s national weather service is warning that its forecasting may lose some precision due to Russia’s economic problems, including a depreciation in the ruble.[/color][/size]
[size=16px][color=rgb(51, 51, 51)]Our weather forecasts might be less accurate due to the recent fall in Russian ruble,†China’s National Meteorological Center (NMC) said on its official Weibo microblogging account late last week.[/color][/size]
[size=16px][color=rgb(51, 51, 51)]The NMC explained that it relies on Russian meteorologists to provide data that “serve as a reference†for its own prognostications, as weather from China’s northern neighbor has a big impact on what happens in China.[/color][/size]
[size=16px][color=rgb(51, 51, 51)]In fact, the reaction was large enough to merit another statement from the weather agency late Monday night: The criticism “was truly undeserved,†the NMC wrote. “We admit we sometimes can be inaccurate, and that’s why we don’t have to look for an irrelevant excuse that you wouldn’t even be able to believe.â€[/color][/size]
[size=16px][color=rgb(51, 51, 51)]The weakened ruble and other economic problems afflicting Russia has caused Moscow to roll back spending on its weather forecasting, and this “decrease in funding has caused a lack of meteorological observation data, affecting our data forecasts,†the NMC said.[/color][/size]
[size=16px][color=rgb(51, 51, 51)]For whatever it’s worth, the NMC’s Tuesday forecast for Beijing called for a high of 12 degrees Celsius (about 54 degrees Fahrenheit) and a low of minus 2 Celsius (about 28 Fahrenheit), identical to what the U.S. website Weather Underground predicted.[/color][/size]
Re: Siberia sends Greetings to North America ! - mapoui - 02-19-2015
sno armageddon in deh wiyah. deh looking fuh excuse.........?
Re: Siberia sends Greetings to North America ! - ketchim - 02-19-2015
Vlad Putin seh dat is fuh sanctions on ukraine :-[
White House pipes will soon Buss !
Re: Siberia sends Greetings to North America ! - ketchim - 02-19-2015
RAF jets escorted two Russian aircraft near the UK coast at Cornwall on Wednesday,
the MoD says - as the defence secretary warns of Russia's threat to Baltic states.
Re: Siberia sends Greetings to North America ! - ketchim - 02-19-2015
The two Russian Bear bombers were "escorted" by RAF jets :-[
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