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News Flash: It's F***ing Cold!
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Jaya Saxena
Published Jan 5, 2010
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More ammo for American climate change illiterates: weather experts say this may be the coldest NYC winter in almost 30 years. "It'll be like the great winters of the '60s and '70s," meteorologist Joe Bastardi told the Daily News. Great. Exactly.
Bastardi says the next month could rival the blizzards of 1978, when the National Guard had to be called in to clean up the 31 inches of snow piled up in the city. We've already collected 12.6 inches this season, and temperatures have dipped as low at 16 degrees (according to our weather page, it's currently 29 with the wind chill making it feel like 19. Brrrr.)
However, cold temperatures could mean more than just a rise in hot chocolate sales for the city. Firefighters battling a house fire Monday in Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn, had a hard time when they found the hydrants frozen and had to string hoses together to reach hydrants farther away. Thankfully, Sen. Espada was in the Bronx at the time.
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