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Next Polar Plunge Could Be Winter's Coldest
AccuWeather ^ | January 27, 2014 | Kristina Pydynowski, Senior Meteorologist

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Canada; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: climatechange; energy; globalcooling; weather; winter
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To: MrB

It’s gotten so common that when I win an argument with a liberal, and they DON’T call me a racist, I demand them to do so.

It denotes the end of the argument and signifies the win.


61 posted on 01/27/2014 7:24:15 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Ditter

Sure was nice yesterday. Was the last day of the Auto Show so we went to see the new cars. Someone on this thread said 5 inches of snow in N. Houston. Hard to believe possible after yesterdays weather.


62 posted on 01/27/2014 7:32:49 AM PST by Orange1998
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To: Orange1998

I haven’t seen snow so many years........ I can hardly wait!

I am just south of I-10, all that weather happens north of here, maybe tomorrow. :)


63 posted on 01/27/2014 7:45:03 AM PST by Ditter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
*Sob*

We're domed...

64 posted on 01/27/2014 7:48:35 AM PST by Gritty (Nobody wants to hear about American exceptionalism when the issue is American ineffectualism-MSteyn)
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To: Gritty
We're domed...


65 posted on 01/27/2014 8:00:41 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: alloysteel

At times like this I pull out my August 2006 copy of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC and read the article NO END IN SIGHT! KILLER HURRICANES! which warns us of the gloom and doom of GLOBULL WARMING!

Menawhile, I’ll watch LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and other hot weather films.


66 posted on 01/27/2014 8:11:16 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That global warming will drop 1” to 2” of snow here in sunny Florida Tuesday night.


67 posted on 01/27/2014 8:46:02 AM PST by jch10 (John Beohner has got to be removed from the Speaker position.)
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To: Ditter

N. Houston is like saying Kingwood/The Woodlands. That is where I am and I don’t think the area can handle 5 inches of snow. But I am ready for it!

P. S. Have not seen any local news calling for 5 inches of snow or any snow to speak of.


68 posted on 01/27/2014 9:18:40 AM PST by Orange1998
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To: bert

Ah! Forgot about that. I wonder what was worse for him, a Blue Norther or having to eat Cactus Pear all the time.


69 posted on 01/27/2014 9:49:26 AM PST by Rebelbase (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
It”s so cold Dogs are frozen to the fire hydrant
70 posted on 01/27/2014 12:14:47 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

west Michigan today high of -13, low tonight -21. My litte doggie is peeing yellow icicles.


71 posted on 01/27/2014 1:32:17 PM PST by MomwithHope (Let's make Mark Levin's The Liberty Amendments a reality!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is this how the Maunder Minimum started?

If yes, does anyone have an Old Farmers Almanac from between 1645 and 1715 they’d be willing to sell or share?

I would also be interested in any VHS recordings of weather reports from that same time period specifically focusing on the Chicagoland area. Perhaps a WGN newscast.


72 posted on 01/27/2014 7:28:30 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: JoeProBono

Wonder Twin powers activate: Shape of a Polar Vortex

Maybe his sister could take the form of a seal skin coat or polar bear jacket?


73 posted on 01/27/2014 7:31:57 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Under a warm electric blanket powered by my household-size thorium reactor! Oh, wait. Obama’s President...I’m frozen solid and have been dead for weeks, killed by Obamacare.


74 posted on 01/27/2014 7:34:15 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD

I remember that it got really cold once in 1989.. also, 1983. I think, as well in 1979.... TWICE in 1974. Oh... and my FIRST cold spell that I remember...in 1962.

Houston got hit by a Hurricane later in the year in several of those years.


75 posted on 01/27/2014 7:34:40 PM PST by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
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To: VerySadAmerican
Man, I feel sorry for those folks in the Midwest who use propane for heat. It’s up to five bucks a gallon. I saw one guy who only had his 1000 gallon tank half filled. It cost him almost $2,500. People simply cannot afford that.

I am so glad I locked in the price last fall at 1.85 a gallon...whew!

76 posted on 01/27/2014 7:34:55 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC
I locked in the price last fall at 1.85 a gallon.

Youuuuuuu.......Boss-tid.

77 posted on 01/27/2014 7:37:28 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: 9YearLurker
Exactly. Highs in the teens for January in the Northeast are not exactly newsworthy.

They are now!

78 posted on 01/27/2014 7:41:38 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cool. Hope it kills off some mosquitos.


79 posted on 01/27/2014 7:44:02 PM PST by 38special (For real, y'all.)
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To: Gumdrop; SamAdams76
Having worked outside as a tradesman for many years (in Michigan), I'm a seasoned weather watcher for well over 30 years, and keep up with weather forecasting daily.

I have never been in the middle of such an unrelenting, bitter, snowy, windy winter as this. This is not normal.......it's waaaaay below normal, and has been since fall.

80 posted on 01/27/2014 7:48:08 PM PST by Lakeshark (Mr Reid, tear down this law!)
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