Global Warming! What Global Warming? Winter Storm Xyler Will Spread Snow Across The Northern Tier Three Days Before May -- April 27, 2019

Link here to weather.com. So it must be true.

It may be late April, but Winter Storm Xyler will make you forget that it is spring in the Midwest this weekend as it is expected to bring some unusually heavy late season snowfall.

Snow, yes, that white stuff that we'd all rather forget about this time of the year, is on the way from the Dakotas to upstate New York. In some areas this could be one of the heaviest snowfalls so late in the season.

Cooler temperatures are also on the way from the northern Rockies into the northern Plains and Great Lakes as a pattern change will usher in another round of below-average temperatures.

Snow is falling in parts of South Dakota, Minnesota and northern Iowa as of Saturday morning. Rain and snow will continue sliding eastward into Saturday afternoon.

Yes, I know it's weather, but at some point, one thousand years of weather starts to become climate. 

Here in north Texas a beautiful Saturday, but then starting tomorrow, winter returns for a full week. I kid you not. Winter all next week here in north Texas. Not cold enough for snow, but it will feel like it.

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Didn't Get The Memo

It's now agreed, he's probably the dullest knife in the 20-knife drawer. Further validation if more is needed: he didn't get the memo that he would be speaking on a Friday night at a "commuter" college.

I don't know if folks remember, but no one in college shows up for a "talk" on Friday night, certainly not at a "commuter" college. For ESL readers, a "commuter college" is a college in which students do not live on campus but commute back and forth to school, to and from home or work. By Friday, 2:00 p.m., the commuter college campus is dead. As in "empty," not literally strewn with lifeless bodies.

But there he goes, where no politician has gone before. Beto, the Irishman, shows up at a commuter college on a Friday night to give a "speech."

Turnout? According to The Daily Caller, a couple dozen, which is a(n) euphemism for somewhere between eighteen and twenty-three but not twenty-four or more. Twenty-four or more would be "two dozen" or for Hillary, a "standing room only" crowd.

A "couple" allows one wiggle room on the downside.

The breakdown of the "couple dozen":

• Beto
• six in Beto's personal entourage, though he says he travels alone
• four campus security officers, all unarmed
• three political science professors
• four political science professors' interns
• two journalists (one from The Daily Caller; one photo-journalist)
• three students