How bad is this winter? So bad that the New York Times has an entire editorial entitled "This Winter Has Gotten Old," which includes the phrase, "We are depressed. But as the comic strip "Garfield" once put it..." (This paragraph could also have begun, "How bad is the New York Times editorial board?")
New York City Murder Freeze Thaws with Queens Shooting Victim's Death
A 28-year-old Queens man died yesterday from gunshot wounds he sustained on Friday, the New York Times reports. So ends New York City's longest stretch without a new homicide—12 days—since the police department began tracking such data in 1994.
How to Have Good Winter Sex
I heard a rumor that you like sex. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. Sex, when it’s good, consensual, and really randy, is great. That said, our attitudes toward sex change according to the season.
Two Idiots Brave the Arctic Blast for Drug Deal That Gets Caught on TV
As winter's frostbitten hand bitch-slaps the east coast with flurries, two men emerge from the frozen tundra in Worcester, Ma. to make what appears to be a drug deal as a very enthusiastic reporter tells everyone: snow day!
Should Massachusetts secede from Eastern Time to get away from its soul-killing 4:11 p.m. sunsets? Yes, of course it should. As should New York.
More Snow Is Coming
Hey, I hope you had a nice weekend with all the trappings of springtime preparations at your disposal: baseball season's beginning, St. Patrick's Day sloppiness, maybe a pair of shorts! Did you wear shorts? Well, guess what—it's over.
Insane Images From Yesterday's 104-Car Pileup in Denver
A snowstorm in Colorado yesterday caused a string of accidents on I-25 in Denver involving 104 cars. 1 person died and 30 others were hospitalized in what is the latest in a string of massive accidents this winter.
Does Snow Make a City Cleaner?
Now is the time for "Hey, Science"—America's primary source of scientific education—in which we enlist real live scientific experts to answer your most most interesting and/ or inane scientific questions. Today: does snow make a city cleaner, or dirtier?
"Philly the Snowy Owl" Dies, As a Snowy Owl Invasion Is Reconsidered
When the huge invasion of snowy owls began this winter, was it wrong for us to feel delight? These beautiful raptors from the arctic tundra do not often show up on the American East Coast, after all. But the sheer number of snowy owls should have been a warning, both to the owls themselves and to our sense of wonder.
Snowy Owl That "Enchanted" Washington DC Hit By Washington DC Bus
This strange and savage American winter has produced many oddities, and the appearance of Snowy Owls from the Arctic Circle has been the only delight in a season of ice and gloom. And then a Washington DC bus struck a beloved white owl a block away from the White House Rose Garden.
[Ice forms as waves crash along the Lake Michigan shore on Monday in Chicago. Below-zero highs have returned to many parts of the Midwest, bringing wind chills ranging from the negative teens to 40s, school cancellations and sighs of resignation from residents who are weary of bundling up. Image via Kiichiro Sato/AP.]
I Am in the Polar Vortex. Here's What to Expect.
Greetings from the Polar Vortex! No, that's not the name of your favorite new dubstep band. It's the terrifying swirl of arctic winter currently occupying the Midwest and poised to consume the rest of you poor bastards.
It's Gonna Be So Fucking Cold in the Midwest Tonight
Above you see the low temperature forecasts across the country for Sunday night. If you live in the Midwest you might want to turn on your oven and then lay across your stove.
Don't Go Outside Today
Unless you live in Florida, in which case you've got your own problems. The map you see above is Saturday's wind chill forecasts for the entire country via AccuWeather. Much of the Northern and Midwestern parts of the country will be experiencing temperatures that feel like they are between -20 and -40 degrees. The…
Appreciate This Beautiful Freezing Snow Nightmare While You Can
It seems there's a bit of inclement weather on the East Coast, and also around the Great Lakes and the Midwest and (who knows?) maybe even Texas and the South. Please enjoy your blizzards and Winter Wonderland, because snow and cold are beautiful things, and one day you can tell your starving children living…
Travel Is For the Birds: Let's All Just Stay Put This Christmas
Thousands of canceled flights and endless dreary delays awaited Americans who attempted to travel by passenger jet during this never-ending arctic monster storm, proving once again that none of us have any common sense at all. Why do we bother? Because we have been brainwashed to accept daylong episodes of…
Four homeless people have died of hypothermia during this week's frigid weather in San Francisco.
A Chilly Apocalypse: How California Is Surviving the "Cold Snap"
From the Rocky Mountains to the East Coast, America is struggling with ice storms and blizzards and general misery. The winter weather has been especially tough on Californians. Many of us don't own gloves, or forgot where we put them several years ago after we got home from Mammoth or Tahoe. Few of us have those…
News Anchor Delivers the Ultimate Takedown of Snow-Covered Patio Photos
There are worthy rants and there are unworthy rants. And then there's whatever Colorado news anchor Kyle Clark was doing during yesterday's 4 PM newscast.
