Yisroel Pensack: ‘Global Warming’ Rears Its Pretty White Face over the U.S. East Coast

Just in time to punctuate the ending of the much-hyped global conference on climate change in Copenhagen, the Great Weatherman in the Sky sent a season’s greetings reality check message to the eastern United States, including the nation’s capital.

The New York Times reports that “Records Fall as Snow Blankets East Coast”:

It came up the coast on the last weekend of autumn, a ghostly apparition of midwinter, roaring into the solitude of cities and countrysides from the Carolinas to Cape Cod with blizzardlike ferocity. It closed airports, roads and malls and recreated Whittier’s snowbound American landscape for 60 million people.

By the time the two-day blow churned to oblivion in the Atlantic on Sunday, a dozen states had been buried…two feet of snow lay across Eastern Long Island and parts of Virginia, West Virginia and New Jersey, and nearly that much in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Rhode Island.

Records fell in Washington (16.4 inches), Baltimore (20.5 inches) and Upton, N.Y., the Suffolk County site of a National Weather Service center (26.3 inches). The heaviest snowfall was in Wintergreen, Va., which had 30 inches…

On Sunday, airports reopened and flights resumed, although thousands of travelers remained stranded in a backup of schedules that was expected to last for days. Plows cleared most of the major highways and many streets, children and adults frolicked in enchanted parks, and life struggled toward normalcy as residents began to dig out of what, for many, was the biggest snowstorm in years. Federal offices in Washington were to remain closed on Monday…

The storm, which walloped the Mid-Atlantic states and the nation’s capital on Saturday and moved across the metropolitan area and the Northeast on Sunday, shut down many airports in the region. While the major New York area ones — Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark Liberty International — remained open, it was just a technicality; blizzard-like conditions forced airlines to cancel 750 flights.