Updates
January 13, 2013: the Hollywood elite filing into the auditorium for the Golden Globes Awards are complaining about the cold temperatures. Frozen Globes, as Drudge says.
January 13, 2013: epic cold spell in southern California continues; farmers hit hard. Headline in LA Times. Not unusual for cold snaps this time of year, but "they" say this was one of the colder ones.
January 12, 2013: temperatures could hit record lows in southern California tonight. That forecast for a one- to two-degree rise in global temperature over the next century looks more and more shaky. But look at this: it's only been a few years since it was this cold (2007). [By the way, the Grapevine -- I-5 -- was closed for an epic 17 hours the other night due to the weather.]
January 11, 2013: Wow, don't even talk to me about global warming tonight. Epic cold snap in southern California could threaten citrus crops.
An Arctic air mass sent temperatures plunging across California, forcing the 17-hour closure of a key interstate highway through the mountains north of Los Angeles and threatening citrus crops in the state's vast central valleys, authorities said on Friday.
Temperatures throughout the state fell by as much as 20 degrees Fahrenheit (11 degrees Celsius) below normal, allowing snow to accumulate at elevations as low as 1,500 feet, the National Weather Service reported.
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Link here to DailyMail.Jerusalem hit by worst snowstorm for TWENTY YEARS as eight inches fall across Holy City.Looks like they are having fun; great photos.
- unusually heavy snowfall as temperatures dip below freezing
- Dome of the Rock and Western Wall bathed in white blanket
- Prime Minister Natanyahu gets in on the fun with family snowball fight
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Meanwhile in sunny southern California, the portion of I-5 known as the Grapevine has been closed due to snow.
The California Highway Patrol has shut down Interstate 5 through the Grapevine because of snow as Southern California was hit by a cold front.
The announcement came at 4 p.m., with the CHP saying the northbound lanes were closed at Parker Road. The southbound lanes were closed at Grapevine Road.
The Grapevine was closed earlier this morning because of snow and ice.
A cold front from Canada settled in Southern California on Thursday, bringing snow flurries and low temperatures that forecasters said should stick around for days.Forecasts for that one- to two-degree increase in global temperature over the next century continue to look more and more shaky.
The video below was posted a couple of weeks ago, during an earlier winter storm:
What a great country.
"China’s inflation accelerated more than forecast to a seven-month high as the nation’s coldest winter in 28 years pushed up vegetable prices, a pickup that may limit room for easing to support an economic recovery.
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"The price of cabbage, a winter staple for Chinese households, jumped 9.3 percent in the last week of December from a week earlier, according to Ministry of Commerce data from 36 Chinese cities.
Snow had left about 180,000 head of livestock dead in northern China by Jan. 4, while icy weather in the subtropical Guangxi region damaged 8,310 hectares of crops, according to the official Xinhua News Agency."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-11/china-dec-inflation-2-5-exceeding-economists-est-.html
Ice in China may lower oil prices in the Bakken, obviously a global warming effect.
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DeleteTo everyone: I mentioned to another reader that I have been posting too many non-Bakken stories lately. I apologize to the serious readers of the Bakken blog.
The increase in non-Bakken posts is indicative of the frustration I have with some issues (global warming, unemployment, the economy, the debt) ...
... and on the other hand, it's indicative of the thrill I have seeing stories about successful companies like Starbucks, Honda, Apple, ....
... so if you come here for the Bakken, there is more than enough to keep you busy (see sidebar). The non-Bakken stories are clearly marked "non-Bakken" or by their subject line, obvious that they are non-Bakken and easy to skip.
Now, back to the blog.
Oh, by the way, once the earnings season starts, I will be so busy it will be hard to find time to post non-Bakken stories. The note from CVX saying 4Q12 earnings will be "notably" improved over the previous quarter was particularly interesting.