Another massive cold wave headed for Eastern US next week to put temperature 20 degrees below normal
Senior WeatherBell Meteorologist Joe Bastardi commented:
I am 58.. never seen anything close to this for late March.
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[The] pattern next week has as much extreme potential for the time of the year as I can find. Coldest opening to calender spring in 50 yrs at least.
Weather forecast models such as the ECMWF and NCEP, both of which have had good track records this year in identifying polar vortex outbreaks in advance, are now forecasting a massive cold blast for the beginning of spring. See maps:
Dr. Ryan Maue commented on this forecast from ECMWF:
ECMWF 12z (WMO-Essential) 850-hPa temperature + wind streams. Final 10-day outcome after 2nd Arctic blast. Brutal.
He added:
Canadian ensemble system looks like other guidance at 7-days as well. This cake is baked. Arctic blast to end March
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If Lake Michigan can open up a bit, then this cold could drop enormous amounts of Lake Effect snow on Lower Peninsula of Michigan.
bushbunny says:
March 17, 2014 at 10:25 pm
Bruiser, minus 92C, this must be a record low. It’s not even winter there yet? Poor little King Penquins.
I doubt whether many penguins climb the 4,000m to get there though!
Hans Erren
Just checked Amsterdam temps for NOV, DEC 2013 and JAN 2014…out of 90 days one was above 10C. You guys must be tough because that sure looks like winter to me!
Friday March 30th is obviously time to hold an early spring Senate debate with the windows open and the heating off, to discuss the perils of global warming. This could be followed by a lunch outside in shirt sleeves for those that remain unconvinced of the runaway warming.
Reblogged this on gottadobetterthanthis and commented:
Global warming does not cause cold springs. It is time for the enviro-fundies and alarmists to admit the consensus is wrong. Cold kills. Warmer is better.
John Coleman says:
March 18, 2014 at 1:16 am
Not only all that, but it is extremely rare (i.e. abnormal) for the high and low of a temperate continental site to exactly match that average. In many cases during the winter it’s more likely for one of those to be 5 degrees below average if we’re in a NW air flow or 5 degrees below average if we’re in a SW air flow.
BTW, no subzero day today. It only got down to 6F, bummer.
Due to this winters’ extreme cold, with many snowstorms traveling much further south than usual, which looks to continue into Spring, outbreaks of severe cognitive dissonance from the True Believers is very likely. Chanting their Warmist mantras over and over, and repeated visits to “science” sites like SkS and RC may help keep their heads from going off like mini-hiroshimas, but only temporarily.
It will be a travesty.
WE had similar in England in 2013. March, April and May were way colder than average. I didn’t plant main crop potatoes until June 9th, which is ridiculous for SE England.
No sign yet that this year will be similar: all the fruit trees, vegetables and flowers are weeks ahead.
An arctic blast could kill a lot of them very effectively, of course…….
Winter’s icy grip is threatening our (U.S.) national pastime!
White Sox: No easy task preparing U.S. Cellular for opener http://www.csnchicago.com/white-sox/white-sox-no-easy-task-preparing-us-cellular-opener
The grounds crew is busily trying to thaw out the field in time for the March 31 Opening Day game between the White Sox and the Twins. (Why in the world Major League Baseball insists on having cold-weather teams play home games so early in the season is beyond me. Though they did schedule my beloved Yankees to open up in Houston . . . thanks, MLB!)
Ric Werme says:
March 18, 2014 at 4:36 am
John Coleman says:
March 18, 2014 at 1:16 am
Most people will take “average” to be “mean.” Or something more fuzzy. When the NWS reports a temperature relative to “normal” it is clear what is meant, or should be. If you tell me a temperature is above or below average I will not know if you have given me an anecdotal report or if you have used a station record of 22 years, or 65 years, or . . .
Your “average” is not defined.
So every time you write “average” you will have to define it.
No thanks.
Maue needs to climb down out of his ivory tower and present his data in a more comprehensible fashion. He could start by using the F scale rather then the C scale for temperature. If he won’t, …. on him.
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jim Steele says:
March 17, 2014 at 5:21 pm
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Jim, seems like last year (IIRC). Lots of cold air, but little moist, humid air in the Gulf coastal areas to spawn violent weather.
The Gore effect is taking place. The more the leftist democratic commies promote their AGW/CO2 scam the colder it gets. And that’s the truth.
Have you noticed that all global warming seems to be local?
From article, “Senior WeatherBell Meteorologist Joe Bastardi commented:
I am 58.. never seen anything close to this for late March.”
So, is what this senior meteorologist saying is that this whole weather perspective is to be started at his date of birth?
I’d be curious to know how many climate changes the Earth HAS gone through already over the course of the Earth’s existence and how man and his technology contributed to those as well.
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Carboniferous_climate.html
I’m 50 and at least here in Western NY this winter is very much the same as when I was growing up. My family would go to Florida every Easter vacation, it was nice leaving the snow and 30 degree temps for a couple weeks but it was just as nice to return and catch the last of the April skiing.
To Gerry’s post from yesterday: The term “calendar spring” refers to the actual calendar day that spring begins (i.e. spring equinox). Meteorologists have been using the term “meterological spring” to refer to the psychological beginning (or climactic change of season) of spring (usually March 1). Hence, the specific usage in the title. FYI.
what I have to say about this never-ending nightmare of a winter consists mainly of four-letter words…
And yet, the WHACK JOBS at the UN released a doom ‘n gloom prediction for the WORLD as a result of ‘climate change’:
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/official-prophecy-of-doom-global-warming-will-cause-widespread-conflict-displace-millions-of-people-and-devastate-the-global-economy-9198171.html
WHO are these people and can they just go away?
At this point I think I would pay Al Gore money to warm the planet instead of cool it.
I’m sick of this global warming freezing my arse off
Clearly due to global warming, climate change and the carbon dioxide emitting evils including all breathing mammals on the planet… don’t bring up the fact that plant life needs carbon dioxide to live. The debate is over.
If all coal, oil and natural gas on the planet is burned, it will only be putting CO2 back to where it was originally. It is just starting over. The earth plant life will be happy. Let’s work to making the earth happy.
Okay shouldn’t we start calling this “global cooling” and not “global warming”? Yeah, yeah, “climate change” is the new term – but we all know there’s really nothing new here since climate change is essential and cyclical and natural. So what happened to the dying polar bears and the other critters? What bunk!
Thank God for Global Warming. Think how cold it would be without it.
Meanwhile over here in my corner of Europe: warmest winter since weather has been recorded. First known winter without a day averaging below freezing. March has broken as series of high temperature records. Climate skeptics are silent on the matter.
Y’all were saying?