As we begin 2014, it will usher in record cold temperatures. Next week looks quite cold as this forecast for Tuesday shows.
Image from Dr. Ryan Maue, WeatherBell
International Falls, MN set a new record with -42ºF.
RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
504 AM CST THU JAN 02 2014
...RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE SET AT INTERNATIONAL FALLS MN...THE TEMPERATURE WAS -42 DEGREES AT 5 AM IN INTERNATIONAL FALLS MN.
THIS TEMPERATURE BREAKS THE OLD RECORD LOW FOR THIS DATE OF -37
DEGREES...WHICH WAS SET IN 2010. THE TEMPERATURE WILL LIKELY FALL
FURTHER THIS MORNING.
The International Falls, MN Airport had a record of 8 days with a temperature of less than -30 F in December. This breaks the old record of 7 days. The coldest temperature was -37 on the morning of the 30th. The high temperature for the month was 34 degrees on the 27th.
Many other cities are feeling the cold blast:
![01_01_2014_MinT_WindChill_Image[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/01_01_2014_mint_windchill_image1.jpg?quality=83)
Compilation from NWS, Duluth.
More on the way for much of the nation, this map shows the probability of temperatures below -20ºC (-4ºF):
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As of 7AM Central Time, Embarrass had dropped to -46 F.
2014 is setting out to be another inconvenient year for the CAGW crowd.
This brings to mind a question to add to Bob Tisdale’s list. For 25 . . . years we’ve been promised . . . global warming. Where . . . is it? I want a refund. Profanity free, but can be added for effect. -35C this morning. “Normal” minimum is -17C. Wind chill is cheating and isn’t included in that.
Forgot to mention. Record low was -32C in 1981. Sudbury, Ontario.
Anthony, please note that the Probability of -20°C temps is at 850-hPa.
Yep, it’s kick-ass cold out there and here in Buffalo it’s still above zero … 10°F (-12°C) … and it’s set to get colder … and windy. And after two “mild” winters (last winter saw 52″ of snow versus the normal of more than 90″), we’re on track to experience normal snowfall … can’t set around and wait for it to melt this winter like the past two years. Well, I’m all thawed out — back into the freezer …
Embarass, MN? How ever did that town get its name? 🙂
Looks like the Farmers’ Almanac was right. Bitter Cold this year.
Anthony, what altitude is that probability graph for?
This needs to be named, like Super Freeze Polar Bear.
The Ash Lake MN-DOT station is reporting -37 with a -30 wind chill. That can’t be, data entry/reporting problem. No big deal – either way it’s cold.
Minus Effing eleven effing F in Plattsburgh NY. The aircraft are mostly functioning except for the odd electrical gremlin.
-47 in Babbitt and Embarrass this morning. -44 at Crane Lake and Orr. -42 at International Falls
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/287664/
Quit whining. This is weather not climate and besides, the “climate change” caused by all of your excessive use of cabon fuels is predicted to cause extremes in weather; hot, cold, wind, calm, wet, dry, it does’nt matter. Just ask Algore. You’ll find him in his 24,000 sq ft home or in his jet, flying high above all the rest of us.
Weather Report – Crystal, ND [4 letter f*** word alert]
yep – Deep incursions of arctic air into the continental interiors and yet the global temperatures are still relatively unaffected. The quiet sun causes changes in weather patterns.
Despite all of this, I will bet one hundred and eleventy billion dollars that both the december and january global temperatures come in at least 0.4 above “average”
2014 is setting out to be another inconvenient year for the CAGW crowd.
That presupposes that a) the weather and temperature will be honestly reported and b) that reality will somehow penetrate the overly thick skulls of the CAGW crowd. I would opine that no evidence exists for the latter supposition.
Embarrass isn’t the only good town name in northern Minnesota….there is also a Fertile, MN and a Climax, MN. Years ago there was a headline in a local newspaper that read something to the effect of “Fertile Woman Dies in Climax” True story.
What’s precipitation look like. We’re likely to get another month where data sets wildly disagree. I precip is up, some satellite data may catch warming from latent heat release while the very near surface sees a drop.
It is actually colder down in Minnesota than it is up at the North Pole, as all the cold air was exported. Therefore, if you are an Alarmist, you know where to look. Point at the Pole, and exclaim, “Temperatures at the North Pole are five degrees above normal! O woe is me! O deep despair!”
Warmed up to -24C here,NWT Canada, positively balmy after two weeks in the -40s.
An interesting feature of that temperature map is the “warmer” temperatures over the Great Lakes. That is because the lakes are mostly open water, and giving up heat like crazy. This will cause the lakes to start to freeze over. If they freeze over then the air passing over them is no longer warmed, and the lands in the lee of the lakes get much colder. That includes the big east coast cities.
Caleb says: @ur momisugly January 2, 2014 at 9:22 am …
And do not forget all that Lake Effect Snow dumped on the Southern Tier. Lake-effect snow hammering points east and south of metro Buffalo headed farther south… 4 to 6 inches in the Southtowns and the Southern Tier.
I DO NOT miss shoveling all that snow!
Don’t know, but when you’re freezing your a** off, leaving a letter or two out is probably an expediency worth the embarrassment. Better to turn the other cheek.
I just spent the longest 14 days of my life in Rochester, Minnesota when the thermometers seemed stuck below 20 for all but two days. Nighttime temps were 20 below almost every night. Driving south from Minneapolis, it was so cold that my rental car wouldn’t stream de-icer til we got out and broke off the build-up. I used to think Colorado was cold.
Colorado’s state record low temperature is −61 °F set in Maybell, in northwestern Colorado, on Feb. 1, 1985, according to 7NEWS Chief Meteorologist Mike Nelson. According to records kept by the National Weather Service, Denver has hit -20 or colder 29 times since records were kept in 1872.
Thought I’d died and gone to heaven to be back in Colorado were temps were in the 30’s and 40’s.
Regards for the new year.