Fracking -- It's Going To Be A Busy June -- February 14, 2015

Four things to look forward to:

• price of oil claws its way back to something better than it is now
• the end of winter
• the end of spring road restrictions
• the return of the swallows to San Juan Capistrano

Oh, and, fracking in June. Five things to look forward to.

Even with the slump in oil prices, it looks as if North Dakota will continue to add a minimum of 150 new wells each month between now and June. It looks like about half of all new wells go to DRL status (waiting completion/fracking) after they reach total depth. In best of times, the was a backlog of 250 to 450 wells waiting to be fracked.

Now, because of ...

• new conditioning rules
• new flaring rules
• low price of oil

... the backlog of wells waiting to be fracked has gone to 750. It's hard to believe that number won't be higher when we see the February data (to be released in the April Director's Cut).

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Mt Kennedy

For the Kennedy clan who were so concerned their children and grandchildren would never see snow again, this is Mt Kennedy, on the MIT campus in Cambridge (across the Charles River from Boston) and just down (up?) the street (within walking distance of) Harvard University. 

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Meanwhile, Back At Grand Central Station

NYC braces for coldest day in ... drum roll ... two decades.

An arctic cold front packing dangerous winds of up to 60 mph could make it feel like it’s 20 below zero by Sunday — the coldest wind-chill factor since 1993’s “Storm of the Century,” forecasters warned.

“You better snuggle up,” AccuWeather meteorologist Tom Kines said, noting the arctic blast will blow through after another snowstorm slams the already hard-hit Northeast this weekend.

The blizzard to the north will skirt the city Saturday into early Sunday but could leave up to 3 inches of snow on the ground in the metro area.

Saturday’s high will be about 35 with a low of 17, but by Sunday morning conditions will be downright dangerous.
The thermometer will plummet to 6 degrees or lower.

Rumor has it these thermometers, because they are not "official UN thermometers" will not become part of the Official Global Warming Data Bank.