Last time they met ... NIU vs Alabama ... Sept. 20, 2003

Nature phokking with hyoooomans (cont'd)

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I got yer End Times right here

San Diego...Storm...Rain...Whaaaaaa?...End Times??

Storm headed this way is no turkey
If the storm bearing down on the county lives up to its billing, it could bring some of the heaviest local rain in more than 3½ years. Rain should begin this evening but heaviest showers are expected after midnight.
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paying the price for Wright and Pfleger

"Most of the rain we're seeing [early Friday morning] will stay off to the north, from Rockford through portions of Wisconsin," said Tim Halbach, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Romeoville. "The main show is going to be later this afternoon."

That's when warm southerly winds were expected to whip up thunderstorms that could bring drenching rains, hail and possibly tornadoes, Halbach said. "Pretty much everything can be expected," he said.

the End Times are surely here

Cincinnati 0
San Diego 0
Delay 5th

anudder crappy week ahead...

Forecast for San Diego, California: 139 PM PST MON FEB 18 2008

TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY	SATURDAY	SUNDAY
Chance Of Rain	Chance Of Frogs	Chance Of Locusts	Chance Of Flying Monkeys	Chance Of Rapture	Chance Of Chance
Hi: 59°F Lo: 46°F	Hi: 59°F Lo: 46°F	Hi: 60°F Lo: 46°F	Hi: 60°F Lo: 46°F	Hi: 61°F Lo: 47°F	Hi: 61°F Lo: 46°F
Pop: 20%	Pop: 40%

formidable moisture (cont'd)

News item: A major storm lifts into the Midwest Sunday with a cocktail of precipitation. The moisture available to it will be formidable. It could be one of the wettest weather systems to traverse the nation's Heartland this winter. The Chicago area may be subject to the system's full range of precipitation (frogs? ed.). Early forecast trends suggest the metro area could sit astride the storm's so-called "rain/snow line".

speaking of end times...

Currently in the eye of the storm...

Winter is a cruel mistress.

Guess what Smiff had to walk home in tonight? No, not flying monkeys but POURING RAIN. Well, i did hear that rain was in "the forecast," but yesterday when they predicted SLEET and it was sunny all day. So i left the umbrella at home. Not only were my feet wet, but every inch of me was soaked through to the bone! Since they got one right for the first time in months (on July 8th they said it would be sunny), the local weather mafia, led by the brain-dead John Coleman, were seen partying into the night, bar-hopping through the Gaslamp. Well, party on, frauds! You'll got yours (look for my forthcoming class action suit), much like the Bush Administration. After BushCo., there is no group more incompetant or infested with rampant corruption than weather "forecasters."

a hair malfunction might be all that stands in the way

Senate joins House in passing transit bill

(AP) — The General Assembly on Thursday approved Gov. Rod Blagojevich's changes to legislation that will prevent deep service cuts at Chicago-area transit systems. The measure passed the House 61-47 Thursday and the Senate 32-19.

no End to these Times

what the End Times will look like: a preview

Godspeed, Smiffy

"A few small mud flows and some falling rocks have been reported on backcountry roads, including state routes 79, 76 and Lake Wohlford Road," according to a survivor.

speaking of disasters

5-day totallyphokkedcast

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Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	Mon
Partly Cloudy	Rain	Rain	Chance of Rain	Chance of T-storms/End-times
65° | 49°	63° | 50°	62° | 52°	58° | 47°	57° | 43°

Snow in Chicago? Whatever...

Latest News - Updated 1:00 pm

JOHN GASTALDO / Union-Tribune
Batten down the hatches, again
A second round of rain expected over the next few days again raises the risk of flooding in areas burned in October's fires. The approaching storm should hammer the county with timing eerily similar to last week's storm.
How dry we were; now, another storm near / Weather blog
Surfers, onlookers stoked by monster waves
Big wave photo gallery / Swami's video / O.B. video
Local surf forecasts / Pollution risk closes some beaches

Forecast: Hail, Thunderstorms, BULL$#IT

5-day forecast

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Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
Clear	Partly Cloudy	Rain	Chance of T-storms	Chance of Rain
69° 52°	64° 51°	58° 51°	56° 44°	58° 44°

Check out dis hyoooge pile of you-know-what:
Four days out, and they're listing a 70 percent chance of rain Friday afternoon... Forecaster Stan Wasowski...said the storm could, might, maybe bring the coast--drum roll please--3 to 5 inches.[He'll be here all week.--ed.]...The storm is just southeast of Kamchatka now...We'll see. In this year of the missed forecast, the models could be off again. "I don't see how they (the models) could all be wrong," Wasowski said. "If all of them are wrong, that would be fascinating."[and SHOCKING!--ed.]...we could get quite a bit of rain, and that might not be all. The National Weather Service is also tossing in the possibility of hail, thunderstorms and snow at 4,500 feet or lower...and flying monkeys.

is this precise enough for you, SMIFF?

Messy winter storm bears down on Chicago

Of the estimated 1.22" water equivalent precipitation the approaching storm may produce here later Saturday and Sunday, temperature profiles of the atmosphere above Chicago as it passes suggest around 17% may falls as ice pellets or some snow, 33% is to fall as freezing rain and 50% is to fall as rain.

Skilly's got nuttin' on Stan Wasowki

How's this for non-committal weather speak:

The weather service has raised the odds on rain Friday and Saturday, but NWS forecaster Stan Wasowski said we basically won't know what we're gonna get until we get it. Computer forecast models just don't know what to do with closed lows to our south. The rain chance for San Diego and most of the county on Saturday morning is now listed at 50 percent.
"Everything is still within the realm of possibility," he said. "We could get three-quarters of an inch, or we could get nothing at all.
"The wild card is the trough moving down the coast. The farther west the trough goes, the better for us - if you're rooting for rain. If it's way out there, it would allow that closed low to pull in moisture from the southwest. But if the trough takes an inland route, the low will lose its moisture source."

Everything huh? Okay den, i will be prepared for rain, snow, hail, sleet, gusts, tornados, tsunamis, a nor'easter, a sout'wester, locusts, frogs, dogs and cats living together, wild cards and every other thing that could possibly happen.

Ok then, but the real question is: Why Does God Hate Georgia?

Why is God smiting Georgia? Too much peach cobbler? Bobby Cox? The way Max Cleland was treated? I say, let 'em crash.

Georgia’s ‘unorthodox’ response to a drought
By: Steve Benen @ 5:17 AM - PST
Georgia is in the midst of an awful drought, so Gov. Sonny Perdue (R) has decided to, well, just take a look.
What to do when the rain won’t come? If you’re Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, you pray. The governor will host a prayer service next week to ask for relief from the drought gripping the Southeast. “The only solution is rain, and the only place we get that is from a higher power,” Perdue spokesman Bert Brantley said on Wednesday.
It’s the 21st century. I just thought I’d mention that.
The governor’s rain-prayer service is scheduled for Tuesday outside the state Capitol. If weather.com is right, they’ll have to move it inside — the forecast is for rain.

good news for end-timers looking for bad news (you know who you are) (K-Mad)

Seems a bit more pressing than climate change...

Where are the honey bees?

There’s some doubt as to whether Einstein ever actually said that if honey bees died out, mankind only had four years left to live. But no matter the authorship, the truth is that we are very dependent upon bees for our food product and agricultural industry. And bees are dying, at a dangerously fast pace. By some estimates, a full 1/3 of the bee population has died off, in a phenomenon known as “Colony Collapse Disorder“:

(A) mystery malady, dubbed “Colony Collapse Disorder,” is sweeping through the apiaries, leaving many hives almost completely devoid of adult bees, which appear to abandon their hives and disappear. Apiculturists are looking at a number of potential culprits, from bad weather to bad corn syrup to genetically modified corn to pesticides to miticides, and many suspect the problem is compounded by the presence of the varroa mite, which weakens colonies so that invading pathogens pack a particularly destructive punch. (Scientists suspect the 2005 die-off was exacerbated by a viral event.) While Miller’s bees have not, so far, been affected by the colony collapse, beekeepers in 24 states have reported losses as high as 80 and even 90 percent, and many of the afflicted bees have been in the almonds, rubbing shoulders with Miller’s relatively healthy ones.

60 Minutes’ Steve Kroft looks at the phenomenon with the apiarist credited for sounding the alarm, David Hackenberg. Full transcripts and video available at their website.