We’ve known that the USA is in for a bi-coastal blast of cold air, snow, and heavy rains, but this map by Jesse Farrell shows just have much of the contiguous USA have below freezing temperatures this morning.
Here is a summary of temperatures seen this morning by states:
- All States except Florida (80% of US Land) are less than 32°F
- 25 States (30% Land) Below 0 °F
- 6 States Below -20°F
Of course, though not seen in the map above, Alaska has subfreezing temperatures, and Hawaii has subfreezing temperatures on the mountain peaks of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea -not unusual for this time of year, but it is important not to exclude the 49th, and 50th states from any discussion about the USA.
Meanwhile, a once in a decade storm will hit California this weekend.
New topic?
Video of Sen. Cruz vs. Sierra Club mouthpiece:
https://youtu.be/VzCXwF39enc
I stumbled on this video of Sen. Cruz cross-examining Aaron Mair, Pres.(?) of Sierra Club in a Congressional Hearing. I think it’s a year or 3 back, and may have been ridicule-of-the-day at the time on WUWT; however, even if it was, it thoro’ly deserves a re-run. Sierra Club runs its defence almost entirely on the consensus of 97% of Scientific-opinion. Cruz, a Lawyer, runs rings around Aaron Mair and demolishes him — and Sierra Club — in the process.
Cruz — 10; sierra Club Nil!
Enjoy!
Oct 6, 2015.
Tks., Chimp … fairly current, then.
You’re welcome.
He started running for president on March 23, 2015, which campaign helped popularize his questioning of Mair.
OOOOPS! Something has gone awry here:
https://youtu.be/VzCXwF39enc?t=14
Sorry
I love this bit (2:30)….
Q. Are you familiar with the ‘pause’ ?
Huge great long pause, while Mair confers with his staff, because he has absolutely no idea about this subject whatsoever.
A. We rest our position….
The Sierra Club – buIIshitters anonymous.
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Ross King: GREAT VIDEO!! Thank you for sharing that.
Too bad Senator Cruz, with his impeccable command of the facts, calm, strong, demeanor, and exceptional speaking ability, isn’t slated to go around the United States, no make that the world, and debate the local AGW partisan on primetime TV.
Or, just do ONE debate with any AGWer, livestreamed to the world and then (with promotion of it in prime venues), available FOR FREE (paid for by those of us science realists willing to do so) via internet download and on DVD (at cost) (and also a hard copy transcript, for all those in all the “sorry, but you can’t have reliable energy, gotta save the planet, don’tcha know” countries).
He made it absolutely clear that:
Sierra Club is relying on NOTHING more than an appeal to the authority of “97%” which was long ago exposed as a FR@UD.
Oh, yeah, that and — the Union of Concerned Scientists! lolololol
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Wow. That was TERRIFIC!
97% of climate scientists have consensus that power windows suck in Winter.
l warned a week ago that N America was in for a “ice age” Arctic blast.
Just take a look at the current jet stream map to understand why.
l hope climate science is taking note, because this current jet stream pattern over the N Pacific and N America is the best “ice age” pattern l have seen in the 4 years l have been taking a interest in the subject.
This one is where a classic LGM weather pattern has paid us a visit.
Taxed,
An important difference of course being the lack of continental ice sheets over Canada and much of the USA, and fewer mountain glaciers. The ice sheets increased windiness in the same way that the howling katabatic winds falling off the Antarctic ice sheets do.
We need to take a good hard look at snow accumulation levels in the arctic this year. When I saw the remnants of hurricane Igor (2010) park itself between Baffin Island and Greenland I couldn’t believe what I was seeing since Atlantic hurricanes eventually track north-east back over the Atlantic. I had always assumed that the moisture for NA glaciation had come from the Pacific yet here was a delivery system direct to the Laurentide lobe coming from the tropical Atlantic.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rT334BMbTb4/TJjEvJeIzqI/AAAAAAAAACY/FtyIsJGMFNo/s1600/SuperStormPathAL1110W_NL_sm2.gif
It also may explain why Greenland heats up before every European climate minimum.
SC
lt was the Greenland blocking during late November of that year which first lead me to my ideas about the cause of the ice ages. As it would explain the swings in temps over Greenland during the ice age. lt would also explain the intense cold and snow over Europe. But importantly it also explains the cause of the heavy snowfall over N America. Because not only was it driving warm moist air into that area of the Arctic, This blocking would also cause any areas of low pressure over N America to stall. So leading to heavy snowfalls.
Sorry… Just noticed that was only a projection. It was a very successful projection however.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Igor
Chimp
Yes what am talking about hear is weather patterns, rather then events on the ground.
This pattern to me fits to what was going during the LGM like a glove.
Sorry – I did it again… ,,, more brutal cold hitting the USA. 47 of the Lower 48 below freezing.
Now I feel really, like, totally, I mean, y’know, bad… again!
I truly won’t do this again. Promise! Really, honestly, pinky-swear…
Except for all you warmist rat ba$tards – you deserve all this cold – I hope you freeze your nads off!
Best regards, Allan 🙂
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/02/12/record-cold-single-digit-to-subzero-valentines-day-expected-for-much-of-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-2144217
Sorry – I was having a really bad day when I wrote this last month.
I was tired of all the “”warmest year evah!!!” alarmist nonsense during an El Nino. So I called down the cold on you Eastern warmists…
Now I feel really, like, totally, I mean, y’know, bad.
I won’t do this again. Promise.
Apologies, Allan
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/01/22/friday-funny-probable-cause/comment-page-1/#comment-2126823
OK – enough!
I’ve had it with you Eastern warmists.
So in February, I’m calling down some brutally frigid winter weather on you.
Mark you calendars and get out your long woollies…
Minus 24 F in my neck of the woods this morning. Much difficulty getting a vehicle to work. I use synthetic oil in the engine which is pretty good but the manual transmission was nearly frozen solid.
Mark Twain dryly commented, “Everybody talks about the weather – but nobody does anything about it!”
Yes, everyone wants to do something about it, but no one wants to sacrifice any virgins.
Don’t know about your locale, around here virgins are rather hard to come by and we don’t like to waste’em.
But, but, but globall warmining! Just shy of 16:00 EDT and got 21 degrees, windchill kickin’ it on down to 16.
Precipitation-wise, here is what the west coast is looking at…
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2017/01/08/0300Z/wind/surface/level/overlay=precip_3hr/orthographic=-134.63,23.48,529/loc=177.393,75.614
Gaia is Angry, my brothers! She commands you to take all of your money and valuables and burn them forthwith, else she will never relent!!!
oops, she just told me only burn half of it, The rest of it you can give to her High Priests, they’ll take good care of it.
See how handy it was to change the Global Warming to Climate Change. It is very difficult to tell peoble that they freeze because of GW, but so much easier to say that it is Climate Change.
Even in Denmark we had a spell of climate change the other night, when it got -14C, and it is far from the normal around 0C.
This cold is of cause weather, but the 10C in december is a sure sign of climate change or GW.
But Europe is warm. No.
http://cdn.fmi.fi/weather-analysis/products/europe/2017010612_eu_analyysi_fi.png
Darn, there is ice-cold in Italy.
The reason why western europe has got away from the worst of it, is because the blocking has set up over central europe rather then northern europe. Which allows warmer air from the south to flow over western europe. Rather then cold air from the east.
It’s been creeping slowly westwards for weeks.
Snow storms with strong winds are affecting large parts of Europe. At least nine people were killed, major roads are blocked, numerous flights cancelled and many households are left without electricity.
jet-stream
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/500hPa/orthographic=-46.02,52.28,536
Moscow’s high for tomorrow forecast to be -25C (-13F).
Not much can do outdoors, a good day for a bit of cyber hacking. /sc
in belgium everything is frozen solid with temps reaching -16 on the ardens plateau. not unusual, but cold.
25 cm of snow and minus 22°Celsius here in the hills around Nuremberg, Southern Germany.
All weather events, cold, hot, wet, or dry, are caused by global warming. The science is settled.
Sarcasm isn’t easy to read.
Willhaas … you beat me to it!
I’ll merely add:
I’m just waiting for some alarmist mouthpiece to poke their head(s) over the edge of the sandbagged fortifications and claim: “The Cold Snap is caused by AGW” ….. go on! I dare you! Guardian” Huffery & Puffery? Beeb? CBC?
Lots of people here mistake weather and climate. Common mistake.
Javier,
However IMO we are experiencing another climatic shift, transitioning back to the regime of the 1940s to ’70s from the clement 1970s to 2000s. The average WX is worsening, ie getting colder. A super El Nino year has masked the trend, in evidence since the ’00s, IMO. By blowing off a lot of heat, the super El Nino may in fact reinforce this trend.
Hope I’m wrong, since cold kills.
Oh, I agree with you that the 60 year oscillation in temperatures very well described by Wyatt & Curry, 2013, is just churning along.
In principle I am not against discussing how cold it is outside in a blog built by a meteorologist, but that is meaningless in terms of climate.
There are very interesting articles trying to tie the number of winter blocking days to solar activity, like:
Barriopedro, D., García‐Herrera, R., & Huth, R. (2008). Solar modulation of Northern Hemisphere winter blocking. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 113(D14).
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2008JD009789/full
In my opinion the data is not yet good enough to conclude, but that is the way to go. If true it would make sense that we have such a high rate of winter blocking days in Europe in a period with very low solar activity.
On the contrary, trying to tie the present cold to low solar activity backfires, because short term temperatures do not correlate to solar activity changes. The correlation appears at the multidecade level.
Javier
When it comes to trying to understand climate, then the first place l start is with the weather.
Because how can there be a change in the climate without any change in the weather.
+10
-10 (not the brrrrrrrrr type)
In line with this cold wave here in North America the Siberian cold spot, as I call it, has moved to its furthest westward position of the winter over the last 5 days. It is easy to see where a slight change in surface wind flows would push that deep cold straight into the heart of Europe, and plunge Europe into minus temps.
The spot marked is where the edge of the cold front was 5 days ago…https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=temp/orthographic=159.95,72.58,302/loc=70.885,64.394
We’re expecting 4 to 8 inches of snow overnight. We don’t normally get this much snow in most winters (for the whole winter, let alone all at once), and definitely don’t get it this early in the winter.
Is there anything Gerbil Worming can’t do?
Not a problem thanks to the ‘heads you lose tails I win ‘ approach of climate ‘science’ this also proof of global warming . What you may ask is ‘disprove’, well that is good question and one oddly the AGE proponents can never answer.
Why point at short term cooling at local levels when you admit you need to observe the long term global picture ?
To provide some data to counter junk like this:
“The planet has a fever.” Al Gore
(youtube)
P.S. “WTH” have done just as well and been far less vile.
What’s ‘vile’ about the facts ?
So, Al Gore, what Doctor do you go to with your “planetary fever”? My observation is that you choose to go to the Quack, and purveyor of Snake-Oil.
The one you shd really be consulting, Al, is of the psychiatric variety of health-care professional.
Come-on, Al! You can afford it with all that Carbon Trading!
Over on the other side
http://www.caritas.org/2017/01/mongolia-faces-big-chill-as-arctic-winter-worsens/
Mongolia faces big chill as arctic winter worsens
By Caritas Internationalis|5 January 2017|Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Mongolia
This winter will likely see vast swathes of the Mongolian steppe hit by the extreme weather phenomenon known as a “dzud”. Fears are growing of a devastating humanitarian crisis.
I seem to remember a dzud last year in Mongolia, and at the bottom of the article, there was a confirmation of that – it says over a million livestock died last year. If that happens again this year, or for a few more years, an entire way of life could be wiped out – cold kills.
Is the power grid stable or are wind turbines already frozen stiff? Are there any sources that correlate temp with energy demand ans actual supply? I keep my fingers crossed for those who have to rely on electric heating.
“Where have all these CO2s gone, long time passing?” 🙂
Trust me. A very damaging freeze is now ongoing in the Florida Panhandle.
I think we have snow in all 50 states, this used to make news.
The only time I recall it making the news was when someone spent a lot of time collecting photos of snow from the single date that had 50-state snowcover. I don’t have the time.
It may indeed be that there was 50 state coverage on the 6th, as long as there was some snow to be gazed upon in Florida. From https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/snow-and-ice/snow-cover/us/20170101-20170107 is this frame:
http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/ims/ims_v3/ims_gif/ARCHIVE/USA/2017/ims2017006_usa.gif
The 7th has more in South Carolina, less in Mississippi and Alabama.
Hawaii got a lot of snow last month, and I think it still has plenty. The last time people from Mauna Kea went climbing around the summit to find the saddest snow patch that ever got nationwide attention.
See https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/13/49-states-covered-with-snow-1180-new-snowfall-records-set-in-the-usa-this-past-week-is-february-headed-for-record-snowfall/ for that year of 50 state photos.
Also, from the next year’s near repeat, see https://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/12/nearly-70-of-the-usa-is-covered-in-snow/
We have to be politically correct so as not to offend Alaska & Hawaii now?
Another failed NOOA forecast? Anybody recall this past post on WUWT in October?
“NOAA: La Niña likely for upcoming winter season – Drought expected to persist in California”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/10/20/noaa-la-nina-likely-for-upcoming-winter-season-drought-expected-to-persist-in-california/
Forecasters at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center issued the U.S. Winter Outlook today, saying that La Nina is expected to influence winter conditions this year. The Climate Prediction Center issued a La Nina watch this month, predicting the seasonal weather phenomenon is likely to develop in late fall or early winter. La Nina favors drier, warmer winters in the southern U.S and wetter, cooler conditions in the northern U.S. If La Nina conditions materialize, forecasters say it should be weak and potentially short-lived.