Weather or Not

The Midwest ice storms that began during the weekend are being blamed for at least 23 deaths and zapping power to a million homes and businesses.

A state of emergency has been declared in Oklahoma, and today the ice is bedeviling parts of Iowa as the storm progress eastward.

Today the ice is bedeviling parts of Iowa, and schools were shut down in Des Moines. Here is the latest storm roundup from the Associated Press.

In addition, Reuters reports that ice has shut down operations at a key Oklahoma oil-delivery hub and that oil prices have jumped 2.6 percent to over $90 a barrel. Here is that article.

By the time the storm gets here, its effects should be benign. In fact it is forecast to take a path to our north and west, meaning we’ll be on the warm side and should get by with just some liquid rain.

Then things get interesting.