Daily Archives: January 22, 2010

Impressive snow totals are coming in across the West and Southwest. Key to remember though: This is a "high altitude" snow. Meaning, most significant accumulations have occurred above 5500ft MSL and major metro areas are below this altitude. Various snow reports, as of this morning: Flagstaff Airport, AZ…                    28 inches Big Bear Lake, CA…                          [...]

Industrial machinery, pharmaceuticals, toys, food – all are famous (at times, infamous) imports to the United States from China. Due to the strong jet stream winds over the central North Pacific, you can now add one more import: Smog. Last week, YWB blogged about the rate of energy consumption in China due to the extreme [...]