Posted on 01/27/2014 4:00:04 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The next blast of brutal cold will grip most of the eastern two-thirds of the United States early this week and could yield the lowest temperatures so far this winter in many communities.
While harsh cold is returning to the Midwest and Northeast this weekend, it will pale in comparison to what will follow for Monday through Wednesday.
The impending polar plunge will rival the frigid days from earlier this January for the coldest daytime highs and nighttime lows so far this winter. This does not include South Florida.
The arctic air first plunged into the Upper Midwest, northern Plains and northern Rockies on Sunday and is expected to continue pressing to the south and east through Tuesday.
The magnitude of this cold blast will be enough to produce a far-reaching threat of frostbite, hypothermia, frozen pipes and water main breaks.
Care should also be taken to ensure that livestock and other animals housed outdoors have adequate shelter.
Especially across the Midwest and Northeast, officials may decide to cancel or delay school due to the extreme cold. Some vehicles may struggle or fail to start for motorists.
While highs will be held to the 30s southward to the I-10 corridor, the Midwest and Northeast are bracing for the harshest conditions.
Minneapolis, Chicago and other communities in the Upper Midwest will endure two consecutive days of subzero highs on Monday through Tuesday. Overnight lows will drop to 20 below zero or lower from North Dakota to the western suburbs of Chicago.
Grand Forks, N.D., will bottom out at around 30 below zero.
Across most of the Northeast, highs will be held to the single digits and teens on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Biting winds will usher in the frigid air, creating dramatically colder AccuWeather.com RealFeel® temperatures.
Where snow is covering the ground, the winds will worsen the situation for motorists by blowing and drifting the snow around. In the most extreme cases, there will be local ground blizzards.
RealFeel® temperatures will be extremely dangerous across eastern North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. On Sunday night, RealFeel® temperatures dipped to 50 below zero in the town of Wadena, Minn.
Frostbite can develop in a matter of minutes on exposed skin during such intense cold.
Along the leading edge of the invading cold will be an Alberta Clipper, set to spread a few inches of snow from the Great Lakes and northern New England through Monday.
The clipper's arctic front is being accompanied by another band of snow showers and squalls that is spreading from the Dakotas to the Midwest.
While Detroit already set a January snow record, the clipper may cause other Midwestern cities to follow suit. Once the cold takes up residence, the lake-effect snow machine will be cranked up across the Great Lakes.
Snow will also drop along the Front Range of the Rockies, including Denver, as the cold presses southward.
AccuWeather.com meteorologists are also monitoring the possibility of the cold setting the stage for snow to develop across the South.
More details on this snow potential will be given in the upcoming days.
OK, I’ll bite. What does Álvar Núñez have to do with this?
Global warming causes Polar Vortex. Film at 11:00.
We typically get the most snow in February here, even though this year we got more than usually for December through Jan so far,.
Here when the cold front comes through dropping ~ 30 or 40 degrees usually at night the wind gusts are huge, slamming my house like a hammer.
We got wind-hammered last night... 60mph gusts.
I could watch the window reflections on that side of the house distort and flex.
I had one of those morons pull that s**t this very weekend. I reminded him of the all-time low in sunspots and the possibility of a Maunder Minimum and mini-ice age.
After that exchange, we didn't seem to like one another too much. We seperated and walked away, scowling at each other.
I agree. 81 years in Eastern MA has taught me to roll with the punches.
It will be fun watching the TV weathermen,though. They get positively orgasmic over something like this.
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The moron was a “good person” because he cared about “global warming/climate change” and you attacked his source of righteousness.
You thought you were refuting an idea.
He thought you were personally attacking him and his “goodness”.
It was 17deg. at daybreak here in the Ohio valley...14deg. now at 09:45...Its been a tuff January...I sure will be glad when it’s over....
Seems like the first time I heard that one was 1985.
... and in turn, I can explain MY scowl.
I thought he was personally attacking me and my "standard of living".
The deeper you go into winter, the colder it gets.
Think we have our Nobel Prize winner here.
“All this caterwauling over cold weather. It’s late January and mid-winter in North America. It’s supposed to be cold.
All my life, New England winters have featured cold blasts that included snow and sub-zero days. Since when has this been deemed newsworthy? Not just newsworthy but actually a top news story? .....”
Living in Minnesota all my life, I can remember other bitter cold winters. However, I must say this -— last spring we had a snowstorm here every Thursday between March 10-May 1st. Finally spring came with lots of gloomy cold rain for about 6 weeks. Then the oak leaves finally emerged in mid June, about 4-5 weeks late.
We had an OK summer & a lovely September and first week in October. Then the bottom fell out and our weather turned harsh. Lots of days with temps mostly around 40-55 in October - no Indian summer at all. In November it was almost too cold to go outside and put out the Christmas lights. Waiting for a warmer day had to be abandoned and I went out in 35 degrees to decorate the outside with lights.
Minnesota has not had such a relentlessly cold winter in many decades. I don’t remember such a winter ever before. It just keeps coming at us. Perhaps a day or two with temps somewhere between 15-35 degrees or so - mostly the high blips are around 15-20. Then the plunge in temps blows in again, and again, and again.
It is time for me to get on the internet and find flights to Arizona.
I’m sure that your “opponent” wasn’t living in a 350 sq ft house and riding a bicycle everywhere, either.
Heh. I actually got lectured at by a uberleft, MSNBC-spouting moonbat, who lectured me about how I needed to help ‘stop global warming.’
At the time, I lived in a smaller basement apartment across the street from where I worked. I walked to work each and every day.
He drove a Ford F150, used to support his contract construction business.
I challenged him back: Let’s see who WALKS THE WALK more than TALKS THE TALK, assmunch.
After a few exchanges, he ended up calling me a racist.
He froze his butt nearly off while trying to traverse Texas getting home to Mexico during a Blue Northerner
Weather.
Gonna snow in Atlanta tomorrow. :-)
Since the Left has been desperate to keep people preoccupied with anything but the evils of the regime...
Bread and circuses...
That's when you can tell you've won an argument with a leftist.
How are all these tree hugging global warming “environmentalists” gonna save us if nature doesn’t cooperate with them?????
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