Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?
It snowed two weeks ago in New York. Since then, the temperature has barely risen above freezing – a temperature science naturally dictates is necessary to melt snow and ice.
But science isn’t enough for some US political critics, however, who have instead blamed Zohran Mamdani, New York’s new socialist mayor, for the snow not having melted and still clogging up some of the city’s streets.
The New York Post, the rightwing tabloid and a frequent Mamdani critic, has led the charge. This week the newspaper claimed that “slushy streets” were “ruining travel for everyone”.
Lol, they copied the groundhog day from Pennsylvania in Wiarton, Ontario, an area farther north. So the whole “if he sees his shadow, it means six more weeks of winter, otherwise spring comes at a normal time” is actually worse than our normal spring time (though many years in the past few decades have been exceptions to this). Like if it warmed up by mid-March, that would be an early spring.
Worst part is that I noticed this on my own. Like I’m probably not the first, but it’s not like the usual BS where people might repeat it but are also quick to say it’s inaccurate, my experience is that the groundhog gets brought up, I’ll mention that even the “bad case” sounds way better than reality, then people stop and think before agreeing that yes, it is that way. I’m hoping it’s because they weren’t taking it seriously in the first place.