“If you don’t like the weather in St. Louis, then wait 5 minutes.” - So to answer the question, no this is not the strangest weather I have seen. I remember a few years back on Thanksgiving where it was near 80 degrees and in one gush of wind it dropped into the 40’s, and it was snowing by nightfall.

As for you global warming people. It does exist, but it isn’t because of people or cars. it is natural evolution of Earth. It happens every 10,000 years. DO THE RESEARCH!!!!! AND STOP LISTENING TO HOLLYWOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Weird? Yes, if you are looking at the past ten years or so. Unheard of? Not at all. I remember when we used to get slammed on a regular basis, couldn’t even get rid of what was already on the ground when we’d get hit again. (Yes, that was when I was a kid and had to walk ten miles to school….) If there’s any difference, it’s that those Winters Of Yore got cold and stayed cold, not this all-over-the-place phenomena. That’s one of the reasons why what fell out of the sky tended to stick around for awhile. I guess what really seems odd is how the storm track keeps tracking right over us, with St Louis as Ground Zero.

One thing to bear in mind with the Global Warming scenario. That just means that the average world temperature will be higher. Because of this occuring and the resultant shift in global weather patterns, winters in the eastern half of the US will be colder and snowier. (St Louis sits in the grey border zone. One year St Louis could get the eastern weather and the next the western weather.) Despite our “breaks” like this weekend, the overall figures for this past winter are right on track. Most of the US has been colder than usual, while the world at large has been warmer. Of course, severe weather outbreaks at any time of year are also on tap in the Global Warming arena. In other words, there is no “normal” anymore.

This has been the most obnoxious winter since I moved to MO in Fall 1996. I feel like I’ve only seen the sun about once or twice a week. I’ve also used my snow shovel more in one winter than in the previous 3. Maybe we just go spoiled by the previous nice winters, but this is by far the most school closings that I’ve ever seen in one winter.

On a side note, MODOT cannot plow worth a darn, which is why I am not looking forward to this next storm. I live off Lindbergh (a state maintained route), and the surrounding county-maintained roads are 5 times better to drive on than the state maintained routes. But that’s probably because I live in South County, and it seems like MODOT sends their trucks to plow for the rich people in West County and along the I-64 corridor. On average, on my commute from Collinsville (on I-55), I’ll see at least 5 IDOT trucks, 1 MODOT truck, and 2 St. Louis County trucks.

Blame it on Ralph Nader. He’s responsible for all the imbalances.

Hahah… I’m laughing at all the people who belive in global warming. I am a proud Republican and I always knew Fox News was the only information I needed, because it’s TRUE. All those intellectual types with PhD’s are wrong, because it’s cold outside. Common sense is more important than education, why read all those books when you can look out the window? I only have a GED but even I can tell that global warming is a crock. Hail Jesus and remember to vote for the white dude in the election.

The nation has gotten more snow this year then it has gotten in the last 50 years.Wake up Al Gore and start shoveling!!!

I would tell the polar bears the caps aren’t melting if they could UNDERSTAND HUMAN LANGUAGE, but they’re not capable at this time. Maybe Algore should use his own hot air to power hot air balloons to travel the world while promoting his “research”, but I sense he’ll keep telling us we need to change our lives while he continues his life of carbon-footprinting excess. Better yet, maybe could go to the caps, learn to commune with the native polar bears and become a permanent resident there (either cap will be fine, provided he doesn’t come back).

It is global warming. Anyone else think all the factories in China, spewing smoke 24/7 doesn’t harm our earth’s atmosphere? If you watched Nat Geo you would have seen the history of our planet is that it will be getting warmer, then colder and freeze, then our planet will be dead, never will any life form return to it..We, as people will be long gone before Earth becomes a dead planet…by man is moving us faster and faster to the end…We are not taking care of this house we call Earth. The ocean tides have already started to get higher than ever before, the ice is melting in Antiarticia and the North Pole…We as mankind don’t have to worry about aliens coming from another planet,, we are to busy destroying our planet ourselves.

Who the hell had their air conditioning going on Saturday? I hope that’s a typo.

What about all that snow and sleet the media told us to prepare for last Thursday? That was….uneventful.