Arctic blast coming to Eastern US – likely to be the coldest opening to calendar spring in at least 50 years

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.

and

[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:

NCEP_GFS_ensMean_Mar24

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.

ECMWF_temp_anomaly_Mar27

He added:

Canadian ensemble system looks like other guidance at 7-days as well. This cake is baked. Arctic blast to end March

If Lake Michigan can open up a bit, then this cold could drop enormous amounts of Lake Effect snow on Lower Peninsula of Michigan.

Canadian_model_mar24

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March 18, 2014 2:55 pm

God is laughing at you.

Blondie
March 18, 2014 3:00 pm

Can’t wait to see the global-warming people’s response to this. Their twisted logic tends to be hilarious–i.e. it’s freezing cold because it’s warm (Note to self: during this summer’s inevitable heat wave, turn the heat up as high as it’ll go so the house will cool off . . .)

March 18, 2014 3:16 pm

This will be the start of the worst growing season of my life. Too cold for too long. I saw this in my youth, I’m 59…. but this….. THIS IS HORRIFIC !

ap
March 18, 2014 3:29 pm

Yup it has to be global warming causing all this cold. I have just paid the biggest heating bill I have ever paid. I shudder to think how much more it would be if we actually had global cooling!

Drew S
March 18, 2014 3:36 pm

What is Joe Bastardi talking about. On March 25 2013 in Philadelphia the high was 38 degrees. Temps are very similar to last year at this time.

brad milvian
March 18, 2014 3:51 pm

I feel a need to drive my SUV around the block a few times– we obviously need more CO2 than we have at present. The Earth Liberation Front should be burning down Prius dealerships, not Hummers.

TeaRunner
March 18, 2014 4:09 pm

Need to get Al Gore to go south and blow some of his hot air up north.

Jimbo
March 18, 2014 5:17 pm

Spring is arriving earlier and earlier. Snowfalls are just a thing of the past. The climate is certainly changing and this is why the debate is stretching out for such a long time, climate is generally accepted as 30 years or more of weather data. The world is cooling (slightly), but then that’s climate change, slowly but surely.

johnquepublique
March 18, 2014 5:22 pm

You don’t hear much from Al Gore and his band of pseudo-scientist much anymore, do ya’???

March 18, 2014 5:40 pm

No wonder why the believers, changed it from “Global Warming” to “Climate Change”!

chesley
March 18, 2014 6:12 pm

What about global warming?

dieter
March 18, 2014 6:28 pm

I hope all of those Obama/Dem voting NE’ers have snow all the way to June.

phlogiston
March 18, 2014 7:14 pm

Erwin Blonk says:
March 18, 2014 at 2:37 pm
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?

For introspective white-man-fortress Europe, Europe warming = global warming. So let the Germans Europeans go on happily believing in global warming, along with genetically modified food and nuclear power being deadly, fracking causing supervolcanoes, all materials apart from grass, mud and spit being artificial and dangerous and all their other comforting medieval superstitious beliefs.

March 18, 2014 7:39 pm

Damn that global warming!

George Brown
March 18, 2014 8:12 pm

It’s Bushes fault!

Bumbotsays
March 18, 2014 8:42 pm

If the temperatures were in Fahrenheit, the charts would make more sense to the average Person.

March 18, 2014 8:49 pm

The Great Lakes are going to break the old record and this in late March!! Whadyeknow AAAS (AAAdvancement of scammers):
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/18/to-aaas-what-we-know-earth-hasnt-warmed-significantly-in-over-a-decade-climate-models-failed-to-predict-this/

March 18, 2014 9:20 pm

Global warming (aka climate change) is the religion of the stupid.
http://www.zazzle.com/FirstPrinciples?rf=238518351914519699

charlesamiller
March 19, 2014 12:41 am

The only “deniers” are the Manmade Global Warming alarmists who deny that the Earth is COOLING.

Don
March 19, 2014 1:16 am

Why is chemical spraying that goes on daily across the US from rural to metro, never ever mentioned as a possible culprit? It’s hard for the land to warm up if clouds are artificially made and block out the sun every day. And for those that don’t seem to notice the constant daily spraying overhead and think this is some sort of normal occurrence, please visit Weather Modification Inc at their website, or check them out on youtube. And tesla was working on weather mod 100 years ago, you think it has never been figured out then I have some land in the pacific for sale.
[This isn’t a chemtrails post, is it? ~mod.]

Michelle Schammel
March 19, 2014 1:42 am

Nothing screams Weather Manipulation quite like this horrifying winter!! I don’t know about the rest of you but I for one am getting more than fed-up with being treated like a lab rat for the sick, twisted, mentally unstable idiots who think, for some strange reason, they control us! Maybe in their disgusting planning they forgot to count how many there is of us versus them! If they think they’re safe from Karma they didn’t think to far ahead!

tadchem
March 19, 2014 2:05 am

This article has been linked on Drudge.

JVJJ1244
March 19, 2014 2:13 am

Quick! Call Al-Buffoon and have him make another ramble/speech about it!!!

March 19, 2014 2:25 am

It was 44 here in Wasilla today. Jet Stream is pumping warm air up here from the South Pacific and has been for weeks now.

MrScott
March 19, 2014 4:44 am

Weather is a tricky thing, what used to be called microclimates should be called brokenclimates. We’re not headed into the ice ages we’re headed into the dark ages. The politicians downfall. When people remember they don’t believe any of the political climate crap. I’d love a warmer climate, bring it on.