This week’s unusual heat may have come as a pleasant surprise for winter-weary East coasters, but a few days of tropical weather in February can wreak havoc on plants, animals and insects. Flowers may emerge before birds and bees arrive to pollinate them. Or worse, trees blossom early only to perish amid a late-winter frost. Weather reporters in New York, Washington and elsewhere catalogued early blooms on Wednesday.
A Siberian cold front has spread sub-zero temperatures across Europe, carpeting southern cities and palm-lined Mediterranean beaches with snow.
On Sunday, meanwhile, air temperatures at the North Pole — which won’t see the Sun until March — rose above freezing.
“In relative terms, that’s a 30 C (54 degrees Fahrenheit) temperature anomaly,†Robert Rohde, lead scientist at Berkeley Earth in Washington, tweeted.
At the Longyearbyen weather station on the Island of Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean, temperatures were 10 C above average over the last 30 days, according to Zack Labe, a climate modeller at the University of California Irvine.
At the same time, sea ice is covering the smallest area in the dead of winter since records began more than half a century ago.
JUST IN: Kroger says it is raising minimum age to 21 to purchase firearms and ammunition in all Fred Meyer locations that sell firearms.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 1, 2018
Quote by Raine:JUST IN: Kroger says it is raising minimum age to 21 to purchase firearms and ammunition in all Fred Meyer locations that sell firearms.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 1, 2018
Quote by Mondobubba:Quote by Raine:JUST IN: Kroger says it is raising minimum age to 21 to purchase firearms and ammunition in all Fred Meyer locations that sell firearms.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 1, 2018
So I got to Kroger and wondered are the guns next to the produce? Then I got to part about Fred Meyer.
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Weird times when I have to applaud the Koch brothers
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tRump administration helping Neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
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Morning, comrades.
Not sure if I'll be driving in the city tomorrow. We wouldn't normally suspend operations in just a rainstorm, but due to the onshore winds and astronomical high tides, the city is taking steps to try to prevent a recurrence of the flooding downtown that we had in the last big storm.
Atlantic Avenue on the waterfront, much of the Seaport district in Boston, and all of Logan Airport is no more than 20 feet above sea level. We'll see how this goes.
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— Blue Virginia (@bluevirginia) March 1, 2018
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Even tho this nor'easter seems like it's gonna be a whole lotta wind & rain, I can't help wondering if it may end up being a ton of snow.
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Oh man.
Kelly has got to be on the way out.
The last thing I wanted to do was walk away from one of the great honors of my life, being the Secretary of Homeland Security, but I did something wrong and God punished me I guess.
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Remember when it was Obama that was going to take everyone's guns?
Ah, what the hell....this is the portion on Trump's drug use from the Newsweek story that set off a war. Matt Mcallaster, soon fired under sex discrimination cloud, said he was 2 frightened to publish despite push by every other editor. I've left Newsweek. https://t.co/11ODJuYQVU
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) March 1, 2018
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Welp it looks like we're starting a trade war now. Starting next week 25% tarriffs on steel imports & 10% on aluminum.
The price of constructing houses, cars, appliances & almost all infrastructure is about to skyrocket.
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Welp it looks like we're starting a trade war now. Starting next week 25% tarriffs on steel imports & 10% on aluminum.
The price of constructing houses, cars, appliances & almost all infrastructure is about to skyrocket.
Hope Hicks white lies
— Max Burns (@themaxburns) March 1, 2018
Jared's clearance compromised
Trump is taking all the guns
Sessions' time is almost done
Kush lands sweet loans
NRA standing alone
Maybe God lets Oprah run
Mueller watching all the fun
WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE
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Think I'll read this tonite for my opener.Hope Hicks white lies
— Max Burns (@themaxburns) March 1, 2018
Jared's clearance compromised
Trump is taking all the guns
Sessions' time is almost done
Kush lands sweet loans
NRA standing alone
Maybe God lets Oprah run
Mueller watching all the fun
WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE
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Here's another article that's probably behind a stupid paywall...
Senate Intel Committee: Mark Warner's private texts investigating Russian interference were leaked deliberately by & under the direction of Devin Nunes.
Warner & Richard Burr are PISSED. So pissed they had a sit-down with Paul Ryan.
There is no way Nunes survives this arc of history without an Obstruction of Justice conviction.
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Here's another article that's probably behind a stupid paywall...
Senate Intel Committee: Mark Warner's private texts investigating Russian interference were leaked deliberately by & under the direction of Devin Nunes.
Warner & Richard Burr are PISSED. So pissed they had a sit-down with Paul Ryan.
There is no way Nunes survives this arc of history without an Obstruction of Justice conviction.
in
cog
ni
To functioning can I?
I already pay for WaPo, So I incog the grey lady.
The stock market REALLY doesn't like tariffs. pic.twitter.com/GRmrYkjABz
— Ben White (@morningmoneyben) March 1, 2018
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Here's another article that's probably behind a stupid paywall...
Senate Intel Committee: Mark Warner's private texts investigating Russian interference were leaked deliberately by & under the direction of Devin Nunes.
Warner & Richard Burr are PISSED. So pissed they had a sit-down with Paul Ryan.
There is no way Nunes survives this arc of history without an Obstruction of Justice conviction.
in
cog
ni
To functioning can I?
I already pay for WaPo, So I incog the grey lady.
Actually, incognito mode has stopped working for me on a few websites. It instead goes straight to the paywall, no free views or anything.
Quote by Raine:I canot be the only one that hasQuote by Scoopster:
Here's another article that's probably behind a stupid paywall...
Senate Intel Committee: Mark Warner's private texts investigating Russian interference were leaked deliberately by & under the direction of Devin Nunes.
Warner & Richard Burr are PISSED. So pissed they had a sit-down with Paul Ryan.
There is no way Nunes survives this arc of history without an Obstruction of Justice conviction.
in
cog
ni
To functioning can I?
I already pay for WaPo, So I incog the grey lady.
Quote by Scoopster:
Here's another article that's probably behind a stupid paywall...
Senate Intel Committee: Mark Warner's private texts investigating Russian interference were leaked deliberately by & under the direction of Devin Nunes.
Warner & Richard Burr are PISSED. So pissed they had a sit-down with Paul Ryan.
There is no way Nunes survives this arc of history without an Obstruction of Justice conviction.
Quote by Raine:That is weird. it still works for me.Quote by Scoopster:Quote by Raine:I canot be the only one that hasQuote by Scoopster:
Here's another article that's probably behind a stupid paywall...
Senate Intel Committee: Mark Warner's private texts investigating Russian interference were leaked deliberately by & under the direction of Devin Nunes.
Warner & Richard Burr are PISSED. So pissed they had a sit-down with Paul Ryan.
There is no way Nunes survives this arc of history without an Obstruction of Justice conviction.
in
cog
ni
To functioning can I?
I already pay for WaPo, So I incog the grey lady.
Actually, incognito mode has stopped working for me on a few websites. It instead goes straight to the paywall, no free views or anything.
I guess I am lucky.
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Here's another article that's probably behind a stupid paywall...
Senate Intel Committee: Mark Warner's private texts investigating Russian interference were leaked deliberately by & under the direction of Devin Nunes.
Warner & Richard Burr are PISSED. So pissed they had a sit-down with Paul Ryan.
There is no way Nunes survives this arc of history without an Obstruction of Justice conviction.
in
cog
ni
To functioning can I?
I already pay for WaPo, So I incog the grey lady.
Actually, incognito mode has stopped working for me on a few websites. It instead goes straight to the paywall, no free views or anything.
I guess I am lucky.
Yeah I that happens to me as well. I mentioned it yesterday. when I got a WaPo link after my paltry five articles a month. The paywall pop up comes up, and the URL redirects to the front page of the Post's site. I don't even have enough time to copy and past the URL into incognito. So, I have to WaPo site incognito and try and find the article. FU wapo!
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Here's another article that's probably behind a stupid paywall...
Senate Intel Committee: Mark Warner's private texts investigating Russian interference were leaked deliberately by & under the direction of Devin Nunes.
Warner & Richard Burr are PISSED. So pissed they had a sit-down with Paul Ryan.
There is no way Nunes survives this arc of history without an Obstruction of Justice conviction.
in
cog
ni
To functioning can I?
I already pay for WaPo, So I incog the grey lady.
Actually, incognito mode has stopped working for me on a few websites. It instead goes straight to the paywall, no free views or anything.
I guess I am lucky.
I don't even have enough time to copy and past the URL into incognito. So, I have to WaPo site incognito and try and find the article. FU wapo!
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Here's another article that's probably behind a stupid paywall...
Senate Intel Committee: Mark Warner's private texts investigating Russian interference were leaked deliberately by & under the direction of Devin Nunes.
Warner & Richard Burr are PISSED. So pissed they had a sit-down with Paul Ryan.
There is no way Nunes survives this arc of history without an Obstruction of Justice conviction.
in
cog
ni
To functioning can I?
I already pay for WaPo, So I incog the grey lady.
Actually, incognito mode has stopped working for me on a few websites. It instead goes straight to the paywall, no free views or anything.
I guess I am lucky.
I don't even have enough time to copy and past the URL into incognito. So, I have to WaPo site incognito and try and find the article. FU wapo!
Seriously? You don't have the time?
Jaysus... I right-click and select "Open in incognito window". That adds a whole micro-second to the process.
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Now, I suppose if I were enterprising, I could instead of clicking on the link as is the habit, I could click on the respond icon and copy and paste the URL and then dump it into an incognito window.
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I am also stupid. :head desk: Never thought about right clicking to open directly in an incognito window. :dunce:
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I am also stupid. :head desk: Never thought about right clicking to open directly in an incognito window. :dunce:
Christ, Mondo. WTF is your deal?
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I am also stupid. :head desk: Never thought about right clicking to open directly in an incognito window. :dunce: