Snow falls in UAE

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RAS AL KHAIMAH - Snow covered the Jebel Jais area for only the second time in recorded history yesterday.

So rare was the event that one lifelong resident said the local dialect had no word for it.

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Major Saeed Rashid al Yamahi, a helicopter pilot and the manager of the Air Wing of RAK Police, said the snow covered an area of five kilometres and was 10cm deep.

“The sight up there this morning was totally unbelievable, with the snow-capped mountain and the entire area covered with fresh, dazzling white snow,” Major al Yamahi said.

“The snowfall started at 3pm Friday, and heavy snowing began at 8pm and continued till midnight, covering the entire area in a thick blanket of snow. Much of the snow was still there even when we flew back from the mountain this afternoon. It is still freezing cold up there and there are chances that it might snow again tonight.”

http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090125...010/enewsletter

[Ban Hammer 13,573]

steven will be by shortly to explain this away as global warming.

[Scott & Lai 12]

steven will be by shortly to explain this away as global warming.

"Climate Change", Charles, "Climate Change" So, the first time in recorded history that this happened, was it a planetary disaster?

Edited January 25, 2009 by Scott & Lai

[Uncle Wally 2]

A fellow Drudge Report reader, I presume.

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Climate change? Is that like the 4 seasons?

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A fellow Drudge Report reader, I presume.

Of course.

[Uncle Wally 2]

A fellow Drudge Report reader, I presume.

Of course.

I love watching the mainstream press lambaste Matt Drudge for being a 'right wing nut, not a real journalist'.

Then I like watching them 'break' stories that Drudge had on the top of his site three days earlier, stories they lacked the balls to touch when they first broke.

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A fellow Drudge Report reader, I presume.

Of course.

I love watching the mainstream press lambaste Matt Drudge for being a 'right wing nut, not a real journalist'.

Then I like watching them 'break' stories that Drudge had on the top of his site three days earlier, stories they lacked the balls to touch when they first broke.

So it's safe to say you like Matt's balls?

[Uncle Wally 2]

A fellow Drudge Report reader, I presume.

Of course.

I love watching the mainstream press lambaste Matt Drudge for being a 'right wing nut, not a real journalist'.

Then I like watching them 'break' stories that Drudge had on the top of his site three days earlier, stories they lacked the balls to touch when they first broke.

So it's safe to say you like Matt's balls?

Oh, I'm swinging from Matt's balls.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Climate change? Is that like the 4 seasons?

In Minnesota the state mandated the use of 2% biodiesel in all school buses, to fight global warming. They live in Minnesota, you would think they would be in FAVOR of global warming! Anyway, the biodiesel turns to gel at below 10 degress F. And, guess what...it gets below 10F in Minnesota! (because global warming hasn't arrived yet) so this left hundreds of children freezing at bus stops, doing the difficult part of fighting global warming. Now, a state with a logical legislature would have convened a meeting and decided that they had their head up their A** and rescinded the law. No reason to do so in Minnesota. They moved the buses to indoor, heated, garages and/or leave the engines idling all night!!!!!!! Thank GOD for the save the earth crowd in the Minnesota legislature.

And an expedition to the South Pole (it is mid-summer there now) in order to document the "devastating effects" of climate change was turned back when temperatures fell to -70F and the crew of the expedition had not brought proper equipment for the record low summer temperatures.

[Teacher Mark 53]

Climate change? Is that like the 4 seasons?

In Minnesota the state mandated the use of 2% biodiesel in all school buses, to fight global warming. They live in Minnesota, you would think they would be in FAVOR of global warming! Anyway, the biodiesel turns to gel at below 10 degress F. And, guess what...it gets below 10F in Minnesota! (because global warming hasn't arrived yet) so this left hundreds of children freezing at bus stops, doing the difficult part of fighting global warming. Now, a state with a logical legislature would have convened a meeting and decided that they had their head up their A** and rescinded the law. No reason to do so in Minnesota. They moved the buses to indoor, heated, garages and/or leave the engines idling all night!!!!!!! Thank GOD for the save the earth crowd in the Minnesota legislature.

And an expedition to the South Pole (it is mid-summer there now) in order to document the "devastating effects" of climate change was turned back when temperatures fell to -70F and the crew of the expedition had not brought proper equipment for the record low summer temperatures.

Laboratory Analysis Report

To whom it may concern,

We received a filter plugging complaint on the morning of January 16. Bloomington Bus Company reported that a number of buses in their fleet had experienced filter plugging issues and stalled buses. They stated that they had experienced these filter issues the night before where the buses would start but would only run for a small period of time before plugging filters. MEG Corp employees were sent to retrieve samples from the bus fleet. When they arrived it was found that 12 of 109 buses were experiencing problems, all of the buses experiencing problems were Thomas- MVPEF Flatnose busses with Caterpillar 3126 engines (of the 109 busses 20 were this model, none of the other 89 bus models had problems). These models of busses, unlike the conventional models in which the filter is attached to the engine and therefore receives heat, house the filter away from the engine and in essence keep the filter always at ambient temperatures. A sample was pulled from the supply tank and appeared to be clear and bright, water concentration came out to be 35 parts per million, which is a normal concentration for #2 diesel, and had cloud of -10 ºF. A sample of fuel was extracted from the one of the buses on the lot. This fuel was cloudy (as to be expected for -25 degrees F), but still poured and showed no visible precipitate. The water concentration for this sample was found to be 28 ppm, with a cloud of 0º F, also normal for a ULSD #2.

There were three Filters that were collected from buses that were experiencing filter issues. When one of the filters was cut open the element was packed full of a wax substance. This substance was extracted from the filter and allowed to warm to room temperature, in where it became a liquid and would go into solution. This is common problem when the filters have been plugged with paraffin wax. When temperatures drop it is common for paraffin wax from the ULSD #2 fuel to drop out of solution causing filters to plug. This paraffin substance (commonly mistaken as glycerin), can cause filter plugging issues if it gets too cold or no Wax-Anti settling agent is added. (It was apparent that the substance on the filters was not a glycerin substance as elements of glycerin require upwards and over 100 degrees F in order to go back into solution, and this substance re-solvated at room temperature) It is our determination that paraffin wax dropout is the reason for the bus filters plugging.

We found that whatever was plugging the filters was not biodiesel, but a substance found in petroleum. We contacted the fuel supplier to determine if they had other customers having fuel related issues. The fuel supplier, which supplies 15 school districts with over 1000 buses in total, said that The Bloomington based Bus company was the only fleet that was experiencing filter plugging issues.

http://nbb.grassroots.com/resources/BloomingtonBusReport.pdf

Regardless, it is stupid to be running any mix of Bio Diesel in that type of weather.

My only experience with Bio Diesel was this summer. "The Warped Tour" made us run our semi's on it. We did have to change the fuel filters often, even in warm/hot weather.

Edited January 26, 2009 by Joe Six-Pack

[Uncle Wally 2]

FACT: Global warming is a bunch of #######.

FACT: Writing "FACT:" at the front of a sentence makes the content of that sentence true.

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steven will be by shortly to explain this away as global warming.

The science isn't important. Only how you feel about it.

[Uncle Wally 2]

Here's a great 2-minute documentary on global warming:

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steven will be by shortly to explain this away as global warming.

"Climate Change", Charles, "Climate Change" So, the first time in recorded history that this happened, was it a planetary disaster?

Extreme weather patterns have already caused disasters in many places throughout the world. The climate scientists have been telling us this....some just refuse to pull their fingers out of their ears.