Friday, January 23, 2009

Plains Weather Courtesy of Venus, Saturn, and Uranus

The Weather Alternative's long-range forecast for Jan 22-24 is shaping up just fine. The forecast was posted on January 6th and stated that the conjunction of Venus and Uranus and the opposition of Venus and Saturn would bring cold, and rainy or snowy weather. Aspects between Mars, Uranus and Saturn would add windy or breezy conditions.
The cold is settling in over the Plains as fresh arctic air has driven temperatures down by 50 degrees or more in some areas since yesterday. Snow is knifing across the central Plains and heavy snow has hit Nebraska.
As far as windy conditions go, the National Weather Service has issued wind chill advisories like the following for Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Texas.
...WIND CHILL ADVISORY NORTHWEST AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA TODAY...
...A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTH TEXAS THROUGH 9AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING...
.A FRESH ARCTIC BLAST IS SPREADING INTO SOUTHERN WISCONSIN ...RESULTING IN BITTERLY COLD AIR TEMPERATURES BELOW ZERO BY EARLY SATURDAY MORNING.
Where do we draw the line?
Mom spanks kids on plane, gets charged with terrorism
Reporting from Los Angeles and Oklahoma City -- Tamera Jo Freeman was on a Frontier Airlines flight to Denver in 2007 when her two children began to quarrel over the window shade and then spilled a Bloody Mary into her lap.

She spanked each of them on the thigh with three swats. It was a small incident, but one that in the heightened anxiety after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks would eventually have enormous ramifications for Freeman and her children.

The incident aboard the Frontier flight ultimately led to Freeman's arrest and conviction for a federal felony defined as an act of terrorism under the Patriot Act, the controversial federal law enacted after the 2001 attacks in New York and Washington. ...

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