In this brief we talk Texas snow storms, Florida opening public schools, CDC changing guidelines again, and Teacher unions are a political party??? But first:
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According to CNN:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/15/weather/historic-cold-outbreak-statistics/index.html
A historic cold outbreak has led in the coldest air in decades across the United States, reaching all the way to the Rio Grande and bringing record amounts of snow and ice to the Deep South.
Here are some of the records that have been broken across the United States by the cold weather as well as some of the more interesting statistics recorded due to the extreme temperatures.
There was a 130-degree spread in temperatures across the US yesterday, from 90 degrees in Florida to 40 below zero in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
The outbreak is bringing the coldest air in decades to many locations across the central United States:
-Dallas dipped to 5 degrees, the coldest temperature the city has seen since 1989.
-Oklahoma City hit 6 degrees below zero, the city's coldest temperature since 1989, and the wind chill reached a record 29 degrees below zero.
-Austin and San Antonio in Texas both had single-digit temperatures for the first time since 1989.
-Corpus Christi, Texas, dipped down to 17 degrees, the coldest it's been there since 1989.
-Rapid City, South Dakota has had five consecutive nights of 12 degrees below zero. The last time this happened was in 1943.
-The wind chill dipped to 32 degrees below zero in Kansas City, Missouri, the lowest since 1989.
-Monday's high of 3 degrees below zero and a low of 21 degrees below zero was the coldest day in Omaha, Nebraska, in 25 years.
Ok, so it is cold. But I don’t remember rolling blackouts in Texas back in 1989. What happened?
Tucker on Texas Green New Deals
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-texas-green-new-deal-climate-catastrophe
Play Video til 48 second mark.
According to the Western Journal
https://www.westernjournal.com/polar-vortex-proving-exactly-green-energy-disaster-americas-power-grid/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=huckabee&fbclid=IwAR2VjK_692fbIQDH6Z_K81wGZ4zTb3eHj9U30zaCeTXMyepNN6osTXlL-5Y
In Texas, freezing temperatures and winter precipitation have caused some of the state’s wind turbines to seize up, costing 12,000 megawatts in power on an already taxed state grid, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
In addition, The Dallas Morning News reported that 2 million Texans did not have power Monday due to the stress on the state’s power supply and the necessary implementation of rolling blackouts.
The conservative think tank Center of the American Experiment has revealed that wind turbines in Minnesota and North Dakota built by Minnesota Power, Otter Tail Power and Xcel Energy will not only stop producing electricity but may also start consuming it.
In order to prevent damage to the motor, the turbines are heated to keep the components and their fluids from freezing. During the 2019 polar vortex, that safeguard drew 2 megawatts from the power grid.
Even for solar panels, which actually perform better in colder temperatures, the problem of ice and snow blocking out the light with no efficient way to clear each panel could render them useless.
Texans Forced To Cut Open Cattle With Lightsabers And Climb Inside For Warmth
https://babylonbee.com/news/texans-forced-to-cut-open-cattle-with-lightsabers-and-climb-inside-for-warmth
But hey kill the Keystone Pipeline project, put up more inefficient wind turbines
