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Deadly chill means parts of U.S. colder than Mars

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The temperature is lower than that of the surface of Mars every year in the US and Canada. It gets to -40, -45 every winter in Fairbanks, Yellowknife, Barrow, Nunavut....

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who discovered this ? give him/her a Nobel prize.......

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Lazy comparison, and anyway so what? not like it is a comparison anyone can relate to. From Wikipedia:

Of all the planets in the Solar System, the seasons of Mars are the most Earth-like, due to the similar tilts of the two planets' rotational axes. The lengths of the Martian seasons are about twice those of Earth's, as Mars' greater distance from the Sun leads to the Martian year being about two Earth years long. Martian surface temperatures vary from lows of about −143 °C (at the winter polar caps)[8] to highs of up to 35 °C (in equatorial summer).[9] The wide range in temperatures is due to the thin atmosphere which cannot store much solar heat, the low atmospheric pressure, and the low thermal inertia of Martian soil.[149] The planet is also 1.52 times as far from the Sun as Earth, resulting in just 43% of the amount of sunlight.[150]

would have made more sense to say it is colder than Antarctica or something

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would have made more sense to say it is colder than Antarctica or something

I actually read yesterday that some parts of the US have been colder than the north pole during this cold snap.

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Reminds of scenes from "Day After Tomorrow".

Get the popcorn ready!

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They were actually making that comparison on the Japanese news yesterday morning!

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Pandabelle: You're given examples of cities in the far north, Minnesota, Toronto, and places in Indiana, etc., are not, hence it is abnormal. It happens, but it's rare.

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Can you imagine that happing here in japan with the kind of housing with no insulation here.

how many people will freeze to dead?

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I'm thinking that there will be a tax in the future for the global warming in Mars because it was Bush's fault.

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What does Al Global Warming Gore have to say about this?

"Mars is warmer, but we have better restaurants"

Nyuk nyuk nyuk!

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"Mars is warmer, but we have better restaurants" True, but Earthgirls are easy, according to the comedy of the same name.

Just wait a bit before this wimpy solar maximum ends and the minimum begins. We could be in for a few "Valley Forge " winters if the sunspot activity subsides to near zero, as in the Mini Ice Age.

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Watching Japanese news, they said it was minus 40c in - Mississippi! Even my wife said "heh?!" (They misnamed the location name twice.) I assured her they must have mistaken it for Michigan, a place with far fewer alligators.

Just wait a bit before this wimpy solar maximum ends and the minimum begins.

Right - then wait a half decade for the cycle to reverse itself. Solar cycles have virtually no effect on Earth's climate.

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When I was a college student in the US we had some pretty cold winters, but no-one made much of a fuss about them. There may be some truth in the old saying, 'Ignorance if bliss'.

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All I know is that I do not ENVY any of my cousins living out there in CHICAGO, etc...heck no!! I do not even like the cold here in Tokyo, but from what I am reading about Chicago, etc..heck no, now that is just CRAZY COLD!! No thanks!!

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The Mars Rover has been sending back daily temperature readings from its tour of the Red Planet ranging from -25 to -31 degrees Celsius (-13 and -24 degrees Fahrenheit).

Quite normal winter in Russia (some regions)

Mars Mars

Venus..

Galaxy

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" Solar cycles have virtually no effect on Earth's climate."

Wrong.

http://m.space.com/19280-solar-activity-earth-climate.html

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/08jan_sunclimate/

Unless you consider the folks at NASA as kooks and tinfoil hatters...

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I've read that it was so cold in Kentucky than an escaped prisoner turned himself in after spending a night because of the cold reception he had outside.

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great for a gridex 2 exercise.

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Maybe they could put congress outside in their skivvies until they pass a bipartisan budget. At least it would give the homeless people something to laugh at.

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It is sure cold here in America! My swimming pool has frozen over!

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Why is only the US mentioned in the headline? The same situation is occurring in Canada. Ah...The infatuation with America.

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Because Canada is suppose to be freezing in the winter.

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@YuriOtani,

A number of States are just colder than usual. That`s all. Are you telling me that Minnesota, Michigan, NY, Vermont etc are never cold? Another uneducated thought coming from non Canadians. Everyone thinks the weather in the US is like Florida or Hawaii. Wrong! Just as cold and just as snowy.

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