Arctic Blast

Well, despite what I said a few days back about people thinking some frigid air means global warming is bunk (and some surprising backlash from people I thought would think gw was real over the past few days) we have had one frosty night. When I got back around 1:30am this morning from seeing 'Avatar' in 3D at the IMAX with Brett, the temp gauge in my car read 18 degrees. This morning checking the news8 site, it apparently got down to 3 degrees (coldest in the state) at a gauge NW of Junction while records were broken in all locations with 17 at Mabry, 10 at ABIA and 6 at Waco. That's probably the coldest it's been since that cold snap just before Christmas in 1989 when I felt 0 degrees in Denton. I remember looking up at the crystal clear skies and being to see even more stars than normal as if the pollution had been frozen off or something. A warming trend is supposed to happen starting tomorrow but tomorrow morning promises another one in the teens. Once again, this is not completely unheard of here. In February of 1899 the biggest blue norther to hit Texas dropped Dallas to -8 (all time record), froze Galveston Bay and the front was recorded as far south as the Yucatan peninsula! Now that's an arctic blast!