California Has "Epic" Cold Snap

Poor California.  At one point she was the Golden State in so many ways!  Riches, weather, mountains, oceans, incredible cities, incredible innovations, the destination of dreams to so many.

Today she is one of the most bankrupt (financially and spiritually?) states in the union.

Just a few days ago we did a post on the drought of children facing the state.  Over the years we have done many posts on California and the problems she has. 

It even seems the weather has turned against her with epic droughts, epic heat, epic floods and epic wild fires all in the past few years.

Today we have an epic cold snap.

Golden to frozen: California faces epic cold snap

SAN DIEGO -- California was going from cold to colder Friday as a chill expected to bring the biggest mercury dips in years descended on much of the state.

While the coldest spots of the Bay Area could drop into the high 20s -- meaning a frost warning and precautions for those with tropical outdoor plants -- forecasters with the National Weather Service said Friday evening that they do not anticipate wet weather that would add to problems.

The lowest temperatures in the area are forecast for Morgan Hill, Concord and Livermore, all of which may dip into the 20s through the weekend. Temperatures in Walnut Creek are anticipated to drop to 30 degrees, while San Jose and Fremont should be a few degrees warmer as the Peninsula and Oakland remain in the mid-30s.

Forecaster Steve Anderson said temperatures in the Bay Area will start warming up after Monday, and "should be back to the normal for this time of the year by Thursday."

That normal is a high of 55 to 60 degrees, with overnight lows in the low 40s, Anderson said.

In Southern California, the Grapevine section of Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles was partially reopened Friday after being closed by snow as a cold snap sent temperatures plummeting throughout the state.

The CHP began escorting southbound cars through the Grapevine section of the major north-south route after a 16-hour shutdown that prompted hundreds of truckers and other motorists to pull over and spend the night by the side of the road.

"There must have been 1,000 Mack trucks lined up," Heidi Blood, 40, said early Friday.

Here;  http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_22355309/golden-frozen-california-faces-epic-cold-snap

Of course I'm not a scientist and don't understand the first thing about what methane and carbon can do when released into the atmosphere.  But the scientists DO clearly tell us that burning fossil fuels warms the planet...and mayhem will result.  In fact they just told us that 2012 shattered the record for average temperatures on planet earth.

I wonder if this confuses them when these record cold snaps and record snowfalls come along with such frequency?  Did you see they were having snowball fights in Jerusalem a few days ago?

"Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish." says the Lord.   Isaiah 29:14