Annals of the Former Warmer World XI
Al Gore could not be reached for comment.
Arctic air roared into New York before dawn, sending Tuesday’s springlike temperatures plummeting. Buffalo went from 53 degrees at 3 a.m. Wednesday to 15 degrees by noon. Classes were canceled at most area schools.
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In Washington state, an avalanche trapped two cars and forced the closure of the westbound lane of snowy Interstate 90, the state’s main east-west thoroughfare, at Snoqualmie Pass. No one was injured in the avalanche, which occurred just hours after the road was reopened following its longest weather closure since 2002.
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In Chicago, rush-hour commuters scurried to work through the bitter cold.
“I’m actually looking forward to work,” said Tom Gilmartin.
A 74-year-old man whose truck ran into a ditch was found frozen on a neighbor’s porch Wednesday, just short of the doorbell, said police in Kankakee County, Illinois.
Two major highways in southern Minnesota reopened early Wednesday as wind died down and snow stopped falling, but the state remained in a deep freeze, with the temperature dipping to minus 27 in the northeast.
Maybe the threatened polar bears should just move from the North Pole to Bemidji.