There’s a cold wind blowing for Valentine’s Day, and it blows from the Arctic.
h/t to Tom Tasselmyer
Dr. Ryan Maue says it’s going to be one for the century old record books:
https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/698209658436198400
and…
https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/697429360630861824
February is usually pretty brutal – I remember quite a few in which the wind blew incessantly for 2 weeks with temps in the single digits and lows well below zero. Pipes freezing were a constant concern. Of course those who are afraid of global warming obviously have no such memories and never had to deal with such issues, or they’d gladly welcome warmer winters.
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February is usually pretty brutal – I remember quite a few in which the wind blew incessantly for 2 weeks with temps in the single digits and lows well below zero. Pipes freezing were a constant concern. Of course those who are afraid of global warming obviously have no such memories and never had to deal with such issues, or they’d gladly welcome warmer winters.
Current temperature (C).
http://oi65.tinypic.com/msev5e.jpg
Don’t worry about the cold Ontarians, your wind farms will save the day
http://www.windontario.ca/
I’m in the U.S., nc, but that was well worth the read. Thanks for the link.
The decrease in solar activity visible in the form of waves in the atmosphere.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat-trop/gif_files/time_pres_WAVE1_MEAN_JFM_NH_2016.png
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat-trop/gif_files/time_pres_TEMP_MEAN_JFM_NH_2016.png
http://www.solen.info/solar/images/cycles23_24.png
Polar vortex (10 mba).
http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/10hPa/orthographic=-65.56,59.17,300
Jump pressure in the stratosphere.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat-trop/gif_files/time_pres_HGT_ANOM_JFM_NH_2016.png
The approaching storm geomagnetic 15-16 February causing even greater turmoil in the weather.
http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/animations/enlil/latest.jpg
If it had been warmer than usual, would we have been correctly pointing out that weather is not climate?
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Catastrophic man-made Global Warming update…
Mind you, in ten years time these temperatures will have to be retrospectively corrected downwards to keep the illusionary warming alive.
Have you ever wondered way the Eskimo can live so far north: Because they eat lots and lots of Saturated Fat. Montreal will go down to -28c tonight ;University of Cape Town deputy vice chancellor and law professor Danie Visser calls emeritus professor Tim Noakes a “force in the world”. Day 5 Bhoopchand was powerless to stop Noakes in full sail as he waded into these vested interests worldwide, showing how they are embedded in academia, have bought off top scientists and academics, sponsor dietitians’ associations – including the Association for Dietetics in SA (ADSA), whose former president http://www.biznews.com/low-carb-healthy-fat-science/2016/02/13/tim-noakes-i-wont-practise-medicine-of-failure-banting-lchf/ Please read.
Ferengi CGW Rule:
Hot is good for business. Cold is good for business.
P.S. It has been much colder than usual in South Colorado this winter, almost very day, for two months. We were very tired of cold, especially early in the morning. Only recently, during the last week, weather “normalized.”
Cheer up folks! If the cold goes south then surely the warmth must move north. The Arctic is warming, obviously, and the models are correct.
Any temperature measurements up north available?
I don’t think we’re going to break any records in central PA, either for lows or for highs, though both will be much closer to the record mins than the maxes. Still be nasty though.
It is cold here in the Bahamas also. It was cool in January but Feb has been horrid, 59 to 62 at night, high sixties to low 70’s in the day. Remember we do not have heat. The weather is hurting restaurants because it is too cold to sit outside. I may have to move further south though my friend in Mexico is screaming because of the cold. I think my other friend in Nicaragua is okay. Not hearing any screaming from Canada. I think they are all frozen.
Barrie, ONTARIO
EXTREME COLD WARNING IN EFFECT
SNOW SQUALL WARNING IN EFFECT
Current Conditions
-30°C
Observed at:
Lake Simcoe Regional Airport
Date:
9:00 AM EST Saturday 13 February 2016
Pressure:
102.8 kPa
Tendency:
rising
Temperature:
-29.5°C
Dewpoint:
-35.6°C
Humidity:
56%
Wind:
NNW 18 gust 31 km/h
Wind Chill:
-42
Great day to fish for ice!!
If there’s any more global warming we’re going to freeze to death!
A good cold snap still reminds me of the 1977-78 winter in Ohio. Got cold in November, single digits in December and snow piling up, occasioned by multiple episodes of “-20’s with 20’s” that continued through February. Sat in a utility control room one night, watching electrical demand spike to unanticipated heights when phone calls came in from generating units that the coal stockpiles had frozen and dozers couldn’t keep up. A widespread outage could have killed hundreds.
Ask anyone who has experienced such extremes and they’ll vote heatwave everytime.
All just in time for Valentine Day. It is so cold that my brass monkey named John has experienced a sex reassignment and will now have to be named Jane.
But CO2 has absolute control of climate-weather, natural climate-weather variations only exist in skeptics minds. With these high levels of CO2 the models say we shouldn’t even now what cold-climate-weather is.
BwaaaaHaaaahaaaaHaaa
Mark from the Midwest, stop with the NYC bashing. 🙂 Some of us know how to dress, and we don’t show all our secrets to outsiders.
Yes, I have little “ladyboots” with stiletto heels and minimal tread, a fashionable coat, and lightweight gloves, which I wear when I can, which is most of the time. And I *also *have thick-soled insulated boots and mittens and a proper zip up parka for the actually cold days.
“we don’t show all our secrets to outsiders.” Would that be Victoria Secrets? 😉
More Global Warming Arctic blast to hit Britain TONIGHT with up to six inches of snow and temperatures of -4C predicted to bring misery to the roads
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3445398/Arctic-blast-hit-Britain-TONIGHT-six-inches-snow-temperatures-4C-predicted-bring-misery-roads.html#ixzz4048E1Pab
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Arctic air getting closer to the UK.
http://pl.sat24.com/pl/scan
It’s the Daily Mail, therefore is must be complete nonsense. There are a few light snow showers forecast for Eastern England. It will be cold, especially at night with frost. Daytime temps are likely to be 4-6 c , Positively balmy weather compared to what they get in North America. Remember this though, we all know the Daily Mail and Express routinely lie about the weather. If they are so comfortable lying in this subject, how reliable are the rest of it’s news stories?
Why is it that “record breaking” lows are not evidence for global cooling while “record” highs are self evident proof of global warming?
ToddF
February 13, 2016 at 8:25 am
Have you not heard yet, science is settled in that one, the climate or weather OR WHATEVER…..all is AGW,……. “record breaking” lows or highs or neither,,,,, no record breaking or even “no records” at all, warming or cooling and even neither…..everything and enything left right up or down or nether or whatever and ever after is indisputably confirming AGW these days as all that happens at present and ever after is due to it……..the AGW….
If you don’t believe this….please try and ask any scientist…….97% chance there you have for a confirmation… it is not a joke……….or is it! 🙂
cheers
Please stop! My dog is depressed and my cat is already pregnant.
For the same reason as this cold snap in the US is being cited as evidence against warming. Swings and roundabouts.
Here in Glen Rock, Pa. it’s a balmy 5 degrees F. I like it when it gets this cold, it helps to kill the ticks and chiggers. Unfortunately, all the snow we had lately is insulating the little buggers from the bitter cold.