Posted on 01/27/2019 7:21:18 PM PST by aimhigh
One of the coldest air masses in years will envelop the Midwest and the Northeast this week bringing potentially life-threatening low temperatures to the Chicago area that will feel even harsher in tandem with strong winds.
In Chicago, the coldest temperatures of the year will arrive midweek. After seeing a high around 34 on Monday at O’Hare International Airport, temperatures will drop to near zero before the end of the day, according to the National Weather Service. By Tuesday night, temperatures are expected to take another plunge, to 23 below zero, flirting with Chicago’s coldest temperature ever: minus 27 on Jan. 20, 1985.
Temperatures are forecast to inch up to a daytime high of about minus 14 on Wednesday — the first subzero high temperature in five years and the coldest winter high ever recorded in Chicago — before dipping, again, to about minus 21 overnight. The coldest daytime high in Chicago was minus 11 on Christmas Eve 1983.
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My first winter in Chicago — 1981-82 — we had three weeks of snow and weekend temperatures of -25. It would be “warm” enough on Wednesdays to snow, then the temperature would bottom out. It wasn’t fun.
Meh...
Minus 30 on Tuesday and Wednesday in the Twin Cities.
Hot is climate change. Cold is just weather.
Are the Somalis adjusting well to the weather there?
Actually, I couldn’t less.
I’m sure that heat is free in Cedar-Riverside.
Nature denies science again.
care less
It was sunny, light winds and 66deg F in Sacramento today.
I had to put on a sweatshirt for my bike ride.
A mere -23 degrees? Think about how much more pleasant winters would be in the north, were it not for all the global warming. Maybe -50? Would that be the normal temperature that satisfies the warmists?
Yes, but you also get to experience all the downside of the great mixed bag called California.
I like to get a couple of small, red Tupperware bowls and stick em top down and side by side in a snowbank.
When somebody comes walking along, I point at em and say,
“Look. Mike froze his ass off last night.”
But, but I thought there would be palm trees and alligators in North Dakota by now. There aren’t? I think somebody’s been pulling my leg.
I left after 2 unbearable winters-—’77 & ‘78. This one may get peeps hoping for global warming. Pipes freeze and break. Heaters fail. It still isn’t fun.
I have 2 photos that I took of the clock/thermometer on a bank building in Dodgeville, Wisconsin. One shows 105 degrees, the other -25 degrees. It’s weather folks!
I moved from west Michigan to Kentucky relatively recently. I don’t miss the cold and snow at all but these folks down here don’t even realize how good they got it! When it’s in the 40’s they’re complaining about it being too cold...we called that “spring” in Michigan.
Minus 5 is refreshing. I often forget to put on gloves. That's what it is tonight. I just came home.
Right? Same here in northern Michigan. Yawn.
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