4:54 PM 01/28/2019 | Energy
Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor
Nearly 90 percent of the continental U.S. will experience below-freezing temperatures over the next five days as Arctic air moves south, according to forecasts.
The “polar vortex” event will have 89 percent of the continental U.S. with below freezing weather, meteorologist Ryan Maue said. In fact, all of the lower-48 are forecast to experience freezing weather, including Florida.
The National Weather Service (NWS) is warning of “extreme and dangerous” cold weather across the Great Plains and Great Lakes where wind chill could dip as low as -60 degrees Fahrenheit. NWS expects temperature “lows in the -30s and -40s” Wednesday through Thursday.
CNN reports that 75 percent of the U.S. population, more than 220 million people, could see below-freezing temperatures in the coming days. Frigid weather is expected to shatter dozens of temperature records throughout the eastern half of the country.
Temperatures across the region are expected to be as low as -40 degrees, and Chicago could break an all-time record low of -27 degrees Celsius set back in 1985, according to Maue. (RELATED: Kamala Harris Makes Misleading Climate Change Claim In Her First Campaign Speech. Why Isn’t The Media Correcting Her?)
https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/1089994196591800325
Farther north, Ennadai Lake in the Canadian Arctic could see wind chill as low -81 degrees Fahrenheit, NWS reported.
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Such a witch, but She keeps you on your toes in Chicago…
“A 30 percent chance of snow showers, mainly after 11am. Patchy blowing snow after noon. Partly sunny and cold, with a temperature rising to near 1 by noon, then falling to around -3 during the remainder of the day. Wind chill values as low as -26. Breezy, with a west wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.”
We should take bets on how much of a positive anomaly GISS will show for US Jan. temps
Jet stream forecast for tomorrow.
We need the good, old fashioned global warming, not the namby-pamby kind now that hides in the ocean at the first opportunity.
Watch the NCDC numbers. I’ll bet the Great Lakes region is once again declared “about average” no matter how cold it stays, much like in recent years with record ice extents.
Since urban areas like Chicago have grown in size since cold records set, could there be an increase in heat island effect making it harder to hit those past cold records?
No, they always make sure the stations are moved to new location with lots of grass, mostly on greens, fairways or other well trimmed places. /SARC
It is all well documented, but the official Chicago temperature station was moved from Midway airport (1942-1980) to O’Hare airport (current).
Thus it moved further away from the possible influences of Lake Michigan.
Aren’t these “polar vortexes” the same phenomena that we used to call Alberta Clippers?
You have to distinguish between the stratospheric polar vortex and its impact on the troposphere.
http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/products/clisys/STRAT/gif/zu_nh.gif
Sarcasm of course.
What you are seeing is the success of Emperor Justine’s Tax on pollution,what we mere mortals,call the carbon tax.
The Canadian Carbon Tax has been so successful that continental temperatures have plummeted in just one month.
Because the tax was grossly over done,due to the greed of Canadian Bureaucrats,the cooling will be excessive,overflowing into the Eastern USA.
Be sure to thank a Liberal,when you find yourself freezing in the dark.
In review,the above is a factual as most our government press releases with respect to global warming, or as they call it climate change.
This is interesting:
“Leading climate scientists and meteorologists are banking on a new strategy for talking about climate change: Take the politics out of it. That means avoiding the phrase “climate change,” so loaded with partisan connotations as it is.”
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/27/climate-change-politics-224295?fbclid=IwAR2SBCBynWSXFaHlyUc7MIC_ApTGPsIyDETTnSt2Mfr7nd0H7_5EvrpJs6I
Andrew
Very low solar activity.
Be careful. They will descend on you with the no-correlation rant.
This is going to be a nightmare for the homeless. I very much hope they’ll make it.
In Melbourne Australia the temperature today will be about 100 degrees F, so on average the world is doing just fine. But tomorrow it’s forecast to be only 70F, so I hope you folks warm up soon.
Moscow and Beijing have reportedly joined forces to carry out heating experiments above Europe and modify an important layer of the atmosphere for a possible military application, according to Chinese scientists.
https://www.newsweek.com/china-russia-modified-atmosphere-europe-military-application-1262349
Geophysical phenomena during an ionospheric
modification experiment at Tromsø, Norway
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/file/index/docid/316449/filename/angeo-16-1212-1998.pdf
We are having a moderately cold winter out here at 7200 feet above sea level, but have not gone below -20F yet. I am very glad to not have to contend with this blast from the arctic. Combined with our elevation we could easily break our all-time record of -50F (set in Jan. 1963 ).
And in Australia and New Zealand we’re having a heat wave!
More importantly “Stuff” an online rag will no longer discuss or allow posts that question CC.
Science loses again
Kind of fits in here, but even if it doesn’t I have to share this website:
http://www.hint.fm/wind
Just wait until April when the Green Blob will be telling us that January 2019 was one of the 10 hottest Januarys EVAH!
Flows more and more cold air from Canada.
So the Inuit and other Eskimo and indigenous peoples managed to survive temperatures like this EVERY WINTER but this “hiccup” that is styled as a “polar vortex” is throwing our modern civilization into a tizzy, if one believes the news. Oops that’s the problem, believing the news.
It’s WINTER for dog’s sake (I am so considerate of the left) and this is what sometimes happens. No big deal. Just don’t stay out too long unless you are prepared (some assume people are unable to prepare themselves for the cold unless they have a government minder), and whatever you do, don’t you eat the yellow snow…
In Winnipeg, where much of the polar vortex is flowing over, today’s (Jan. 29) high was -33C=-27F with a wind chill of -49C=-45F. I put a 2-liter bottle of Dr. Pepper out on my back steps, and within a half-hour it was 75% completely frozen. Since mid-January, 14 of the last 15 days have seen below-normal temperatures. Normal highs are -13C=+8F, and there’s no sign of anything close to a spring warm up. So where’s the global warming? Weren’t the alarmists telling us a few years ago that snow would soon be a thing of the past? The problem is that the stuff I was shoveling yesterday wasn’t mashed potatoes.
I find the Fahrenheit temperature scale very confusing particularly for low temperatures but for some strange reason the high Fahrenheit temperatures still mean something to me. The Celsius and Fahrenheit scale are equal at minus 40 but we had recently where I live in the UK a low temperature of minus 20 degrees Celsius but this is minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit which is a long way from minus 25 degrees Fahrenheit but minus 25 degrees Fahrenheit is 32 degrees Celsius which is closer. I also find it confusing as to where max daily temperatures are being given and daily mins are being given and then I have to convert it Celsius again before it means anything to me
The difference is in the scale used to measure temperature. It is comparable to using meters or feet to measure distance. (I do agree that metric measurements are much easier to work with.) Celsius scale gives 100 divisions between the freezing and boiling points of water. The Fahrenheit scale was apparently established, by the scientist for whom it is named, a bit more arbitrarily using freezing brine water and normal human body temperature. Some time ago it was formally defined as +32 and +212 for freezing and boiling water. The -40 point happens to be where the two temperature scales intersect. The equation for conversion is F=9/5C + 32, or conversely, C = 5/9 (F-32). Having grown up with Fahrenheit, the concept of +35C being hot constantly escapes me. Regardless, I think all of us can agree that -40 by any measure is damn cold, which I can vouch for, having dealt with -58F yesterday.
The current temperature in the Midwest.
Tomorrow will be fast freezing of the Northeast.
Sounds heavenly. Couldn’t sleep last night because of the heat and very high humidity. Had to have a cold shower at 3 in the morning to cool down. The house was like an over even with all doors and windows open. Really wish I had air conditioning.
Especially high humidity is in Queensland.
http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mtpw2/product.php?color_type=tpw_nrl_colors&prod=ausf×pan=24hrs&anim=html5
It looks as La Niña.
I live in the Okanagan Valley, B.C. and it was above average the last few weeks and the CBC was saying how it isn’t normal. This was just a distraction from the cold weather in most of the country. Now it is a few degrees below normal. They are as Elmer Fudd would say “Vewy vewy quiet.” Of course when summer comes around and it gets warm the cultists will come out again and say the sky is falling.