Tuesday morning, America 'as a whole' awoke to the coldest it has been in November since 1976 -- 38 years ago. The Lower-48 or CONUS spatially average temperature plummeted overnight to only 19.4°F typical of mid-winter not November 18th! Data
An astounding 226-million Americans will experience at or below freezing temperatures (32°F) on Tuesday as well -- if you venture outdoors.
More than 85% of the surface area of the Lower-48 reached or fell below freezing Tuesday morning. All 50-states saw at or below freezing temperatures on Tuesday.
Record lows from Idaho to Nebraska and Iowa south to Texas and east through the Great Lakes, the eastern 2/3 of the US will shatter decades-long and in some cases, century-long records. Temperatures east of the Rockies will be 20-40°F below climate normals.
Compared to normal, temperatures over the past several days have dropped off a cliff -- to 10°C below climate normal -- more anomalous than even during the #polarvortex of early January. Anomaly Chart . November is shaping up to be a colder-than-normal month by a lot.
Brisk northwesterly winds in the Great Lakes will cause heavy lake effect snow which will be measured in feet from Michigan to New York state. Monday, almost half of the Lower-48 was blanketed in snow. Please visit Mashable and Washington Post Capital Weather Gang for daily updates.
Cold air pushes east thru Wednesday with a reinforcing shot of Arctic air with origin from the North Pole & Siberia to arrive on Thursday in the Great Lakes. Any relief is is 5-6 days away as Chicago, Minneapolis, and Detroit will struggle to rise above freezing until Saturday.
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Yep - it's cold!
ReplyDeleteNow that it's cold Obama will find a way to shut down coal fired power plants in order to piss off as many people as he can.
ReplyDeleteThis is GLOBAL WARMING..
ReplyDeleteThis is WEATHER MODIFICATION.
ReplyDeleteThis is GEOENGINEERING.
This is CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.
Wake up folks
This absolutely proves that the liberals are right.
ReplyDeleteIt's NOT "Global Warming" any longer. It's now referred to as "Climate Change".
So this cold snap just proves their case: A month ago it was hot. Now it's cold. Climate Change is REAL!
Probably important for folks to remind themselves of the difference between weather and climate.
ReplyDeleteClimate is what you expect. Weather is what you get!
ReplyDelete3:12 True. The climate in America right now is that Obama is trying to destroy us with his liberal agenda and turn us into a 3rd world country. The weather across the Country is cold as Hell.
ReplyDeleteBut nothing biblical here in God's country.
ReplyDelete3:12 You must be a rocket scientist. If you see a mountain, you can climate, weather permitting. And FYI, it's always warmer near the equator.
ReplyDeleteYou guys do realize the military controls our weather - right?
ReplyDeleteIf you have lived here long enough to remember back to the late seventies weather you would remember the bay freezing over and barges unable to navigate the Wicomico and Nanticoke rivers...the ocean froze and took out part of the fishing pier...Johnsons Lake used to provide some excellent ice skating...lets hear some more memories of what a normal winter on the Shore was like back then.
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