A major storm system is set to bring “potentially catastrophic” winter weather across the southern U.S. this weekend, bringing snow, freezing rain and ice pellets to a substantial swath of the country.
It could be the “storm that defines the entire winter,” according to some meteorologists.
Overall, nearly 30 states could feel the effects from New Mexico all the way to New York starting Friday.
The National Weather Service warns that not only will this be a significant storm event but that there will be dangerously cold temperatures both before and after it passes — and in places that aren’t accustomed to such frigid conditions.
But there’s still “a lot of uncertainty,” David Nadler, a warning co-ordination meteorologist with the NWS in Peachtree City, Ga., said in a special briefing Wednesday afternoon.
I think the most frustrating part of living in the modern world is that we can’t trust the news at all.
Climate change is real. It is man-made. It is causing extreme weather events. People are suffering and dying as a result of our lack of ecological regulations. These are newsworthy facts, alarming and important. This storm system is evidence to support those conclusions.
None of those are included in this article.
Instead, we get click-bait fear-mongering. We get hyperbolic dramatization. The author desperately wants you to read the article, but they don’t want you to learn anything. They want to be an authority on the situation, but they want to hedge their predictions because anything can happen (or not happen) and they don’t want to look foolish.
It’s like if you lived in an apartment building, and it was on fire, and instead of an alarm or instructions telling you to vacate or call the fire department, you get an advertisement for air freshener because the smoke might really smell bad, and you should panic buy at any price because stores will run out of air freshener because all your neighbors are going to want to be prepared. Warning, inconvenience approaches! Spend some money just in case things get bad.
we can’t trust the news at all
It’s always been like this. There’s news for the rich, and news for the poors. Most “news” exists solely to serve the interests of the ruling class.
True but there’s nothing relevant about man made climate change here, this is a warning of an impending weather event. You can see it on your weather app.
Did you even read the article? Go buy some food and emergency supplies for the weekend.
Snowstorms were even worse before accelerated climate change and it was still news if a bad one was on the horizon.
The core of their message is “we need to address the reason these storms are becoming more dangerous” and you don’t think that’s relevant?
Snowstorms were even worse before accelerated climate change
Please source this claim or kindly stay silent instead of spreading misinformation.
Besides living here and observing less snow over my own lifetime you too could have simply looked up this long known fact
https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/snowfall-trends-2024
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If climate change was only about snowfall, sure. But from your own source:
https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-services/billion-dollar-disasters
Since 1980, half of all (CPI-adjusted) damage costs from “major weather events” (defined as weather events incurring more than 1 billion in CPI-adjusted damages) have occurred in the last 10 years. Many of which are winter storms.
So yeah, you may have seen trends in snowfall. But the instability of weather systems is increasing due to climate change, and this storm is at least partially a consequence of that.
Your observations are anecdotal so they don’t count. Also that’s not what that study says.
Kindly read it. It also identifies many other studies confirming less snow.
Do show me your research supporting a different conclusion
I did in fact read it. That’s how I know it doesn’t say what you think it says.
- Nearly two-thirds (64%) of locations now get less snow than they did in the early 1970s. Another 731 locations (36%) have seen snowfall increase.
Sure some places are getting less snow but also some places are getting more snow.
Well as you clearly just wrote most places are getting less snow as the earth warms and there will be less freezing weather generally
So what are you trying to say?
If you’re not used to winter driving conditions, keep your speed to about half of the posted speed limit, AND allow about double the normal distance for any braking you have to do. Give yourself a little over twice the normal amount of time it’d take you to drive somewhere.
This is generous, and will generally keep you safe on the road even if you’re unaccustomed to the conditions. Ice can still cause (sometimes unavoidable) problems even with these extra allowances, but if you’re going slowly and giving the extra distance, any accidents will be at low speed and very minor.
And consider not driving at all if it isn’t important- especially if you don’t have all-weather tires
