Greetings!

Well, it FINALLY stopped snowing in DC... Maybe they should hold the Olympics there!  They're getting too much winter, while here in the Pacific Northwest, which will host the Olympics starting this weekend, is experiencing the warmest winter on record... literally!  The snow level will hover around 4000 feet... quite a bit above where they need it to be to help much, though.

Lots of pictures in today's Break... An Astronaut puts the new internet connection in the Space Station to good use, tweeting a bunch of pictures... The US Senate cancels its meeting on the impacts of Global Warming because of heavy snow... Record snowfall across the East... its costing us 100 million in time wasted every day the government is out of work... new 9/11 photos released by the New York Police Department.

Hope all is well with everyone!  Remember... its Friday Eve!

 

January 2009 was the warmest January on record... with an average (including the overnight lows) of 47 degrees.

That was about a half-degree warmer than the old record set in 2006. Seattle records go back to 1891.

Forecasters say the average daily high at Sea-Tac Airport was nearly 52 degrees, about 6 degrees above normal. The average low was the month was about 43, about 7 degrees above normal.

Bellingham also had its warmest January on record, averaging 45 degrees. And Olympia had its second-warmest January, averaging nearly 44 degrees.

The Weather Service says Spokane averaged 35 degrees. That's about 8 degrees above normal and the eighth-warmest in the past 130 years. Spokane had just 1.4 inches of snow. That's fourth-lowest. 

 

Do you get it?

 

 

Japanese Astronaut Soichi Hoguchi has been busy Tweeting!

From the International Space Station, the Astronaut is enjoying snapping pictures, and using his newly set up Internet Connection, tweeting them to the world... here are a few of the pictures he's taken...

 

Bahrain - A not quite completed display of excess

Summertime in Sydney, Australia

Winter in Bucharest, Romania

Near Aruba... one of the Antilles...

Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania... where the Glaciers are melting faster than fast... according to a "typo", anyway

A very wintry Sapporo Japan

Launch complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Orlando, Florida

Moscow, Russia

Here's looking at... Casablanca, Morocco

London, England

New Orleans, on the day that the Saints won the Super Bowl.

A line of thunderstorms in Canada

It looks like Mars, but its actually Richat Structure in Mauritania's Gres de Chinguetti Plateau, in Northwest Africa.

Oahu, Hawaii.. interesting, because he's Japanese... =]

Thunderclouds over Mexico

MORE:  From an email.

 

US Senate cancels hearing on Global Warming Impacts due to Record snow (and other Snowmageddon blurbs)

Funny stuff... but then isn't really usually funnier than fiction???
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=b3e826ad-802a-23ad-45b8-8fa00c661d62

Its official... Baltimore has had the snowiest winter on record this year:

Its still snowing...

More: http://www.wbaltv.com/blogometer/index.html

Wanna see more?

http://www.wbaltv.com/slideshow/weather/22507696/detail.html

100 Million a day!

In a town accustomed to starting new government programs to create jobs and spark economic activity, some Washington, D.C., area businesses are hailing the wintry mess of the past four days as a "shovel-ready" economic stimulus project in the making.

Office of Personnel Management chief John Berry, who decides when to close the federal government, has said each snow day costs taxpayers an estimated $100 million in work government employees don't do.

MORE:  http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/snow-storm-economics-winter-weather-stimulate-economy/story?id=9788401

 

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/snow.foot.chicago.2.1481078.html

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/Its-Officially-the-Snowiest-Winter-in-History-84065947.html

From the National Weather Service:

 

New 9/11 photos released

New York Police helicopter forces took some stunning pictures of the 9/11 attack and collapse... and they are amazing!

MORE:  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1249885/New-World-Trade-Center-9-11-aerial-images-ABC-News.html

 

This is awesome!

This is how you KNOW you live in Redneckville

New Motto?

Wouldn't the newspaper have noticed?

Now... that's going to hurt!

SOLD

Who's shooting who?

This tree got startled about something

Surprised its not more popular...

How does that work, I wonder?

A funny headline

Seems someone already is...

Sometimes translations are funny...

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