by Judith Curry
In Atlanta right now, we have about 2″ of snow, overlain by freezing rain, a classical “winter mix.” The whole city is pretty much closed down (including Georgia Tech). This is a fairly wimpy storm relative to what I used to encounter in Boulder or Chicago, but dealing with weather is relative to what you have adapted to. Madhav Khandekar from India posts at Pielke Sr.:
For last two weeks or about most of north and central India are witnessing cold wintry weather; some places in Kashmir and the Himalayan foothills have low temperatures at -5C to -20C! This is cold for India, since most houses are not insulated, not heated (except some small room heaters in north India) . . .
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