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Arctic Polar Blast Coming: Midwest Temperatures To Plunge 35 Below Average, Chicago Facing Record Lows
Following several weeks of economic data that has been, despite erroneous expectations of a Fed rate hike, one major disappointment after another including regional Fed reports, housing data, manufacturing surveys, construction spending, and durable goods data, the US economy is about to get the slowdown scapegoat it so desperately needs: according to Weather.com, following a brief overnight respite from cold temperatures, entering the first full week of January, both the Midwest and the East will see a plunge to the coldest temperatures of the season. This blast of cold temperatures will be different than the Arctic chill that ended 2014, which was mainly confined to the northern tier. This time the frigid air will push farther south and east.
As Weather.com forecasts, two rounds of Arctic cold will move through much of the U.S. this week. The first blast moves in behind Winter Storm Frona and begins in the Plains on Sunday and into the Midwest on Monday. High temperatures will be up to 25 degrees below average and will not reach above the freezing mark as far south as Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle.
The second round will be even colder and will push farther south and east. A ridge of high pressure will build in the West with a deep trough in eastern Canada which will allow air from the Arctic to move southward across the eastern half of the U.S.
As a result, high temperatures are expected to be up to 35 degrees below average in parts of the Midwest by midweek. Chicago may see a subzero high temperature on Wednesday. The last time the mercury did not reach zero was on January 6 of last year. Chicago may also set a daily record cold high temperature on Wednesday (current record is 3 degrees set just last year) and a record low temperature on Thursday morning (current record is 10 degrees below zero).
It's not just the midwest states that will be impacted: a stretch of below-freezing temperatures may be in store for New York next week as the current forecast has temperatures below 32 degrees from Monday night to Sunday afternoon. Boston is expected to see the coldest conditions so far this winter as lows may drop down into the single digits for Thursday morning. The lowest temperature so far this season is 18 which was recorded on December 8.
And that's when the wind chill arrives: gusty winds will accompany the cold temperatures as a strong area of high pressure builds in behind the clipper system. These gusty winds will make it feel even colder. Wind chill values are expected to be below zero for much of the Midwest and Northeast overnight Wednesday into Thursday morning and in the single digits for parts of the Southeast. The coldest morning for many will be on Thursday as lows will plunge into the single digits and teens for much of East, with subzero readings in the Midwest and northern New England.
The Great Lakes region, which was stunned at the lake-effect that burried it under several feet of snow in late November, will get a chance to reprise it all over again, when it gets another lake-effect snowfall in under two months in the coming week.
The brutal cold is not expected to last too terribly long. Temperatures will begin to warm by the weekend throughout much of the Midwest and East, but temperatures may remain below average as a third shot of cold temperatures may impact the Great Lakes and Northeast next weekend.
The best news for establishment economists is that, post-facto, there will be yet another very convenient explanation to justify the rapid decline in economic data in December, especially now that the "Polar Vortex" phenomenon is firmly ingrained in the popular consciousness, the same polar vortex which in Q1 2014 singlehandedly wiped away nearly $200 billion in trendline growth from the US economy. And with the December jobs report on deck this week, the frigid weather couldn't have come at a more convenient moment. Just please forget that the "explanation" for the December slowdown took place in January.
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It's all because our pal Al Gore got rid of global warming. damn him and his Nobel peace prize!
Winter is here... People will stop shopping. *cough
Also, the 'youfs' tend to stay inside when it gets chilly. So at least that's a positive development.
das rayciss
My wife explained to me this morning why we now like to call these things a Polar Vortex instead of just "winter". You get to blame the Canadians.
And by Canadians, I mean actual Canadians, not 'Canadians' as a code word for a different group of people.
Just wanted to be clear about that.
Phew!
For a while there I thought that we were not going to have any pathetic excuse for the downturn.
On the bright side, Harry Reed's ribs abnd face will hurt alot more in the freezing cold.
It's some comfort, anyway.
Check out this awesome interactive weather map!
http://earth.nullschool.net
I just hope Preparation-H is effective against polaroids.
The globe is warming so much it is starting to freeze!
Specialty retailers look forward to cold weather, as it motivates more passersby (aka "street intercepts") to come inside. This cold spell is welcome, coming as it does at the end of a grim Christmas shopping season. Support small local business...
That is way cool! Thanks for the post.
Amazingly interactive, though when I zoom in it really makes my vid card work, so I suspect those with high end video cards will see much more wind activity than those who have lower level video.
Mesmerizing as well as so informative. One glance and I can see why my NH location will hit 40 degrees today.
Since my post is several down here's the link from above again
http://earth.nullschool.net
horseshit and snow....shovel ready jawbz!!!
At some point the horseshit is gonna hit the snow blower.
Poles apart..
Global Warming Bitchezzz...
Chi Town Brothers gots to be carefulicious out there, that semi auto be lockin up goins from hot crib to da icey street and Ho Chi at the Pop N' Stop may gets the edge on yous while you fiddle wit the action. Recommend some Remington Dry Lube durin da Polar Ice Cappin shitz be takin place.
it is pronounced "yutes" not youfs.
as in - minority yutes challenging the police and setting tires on fire.
\s\
Wouldn't change a thing.
BREAKING NEWS: It's going to be cold during the winter. Thank you for this incredible news WeatherHedge!
zzz
Weather, climate, its the same thing right?
It's only the same when the carbon credit shyters say it is
Weather is to deficit as climate is to debt. So add weather over time to get climate, just like add deficit over time to get debt. Yes the climate is changing...just like it has been doing for the last 4 billion years.
You should be careful adding weather. You need to taste the climate before adding more weather. Once you add too much weather, the climate is ruined and you will have to throw it out, or feed it to the dogs.
"Oh Nestor, how can you be so blind? It's climate change, or as we in the know call it, climate disruption. Don't you know that the way things are going there will be no igloos left by the year 2237?!? I know, I know, but you have to ignore those far-right Exxon_Mobil Tea-Party fanatic deniers who say we have no empirical data or a single evidentiary study. They're just haters who hate Mother Earth. Stay strong, check your white privilege, and be sure to mind the auras of your chakras." /sarc /sarc /sarc
And watching the weather channel is lke taking advice from Cramer on cnbc. I can look outside myself and decide.
so,
"weather.com" "November 2008"
lulz.
exactly...lol. Probably more propaganda than your major news stations on that channel since people think weather reporting is innocent news lol.
Cui Bono indeed. Weather generally is generally about as sexy as a disgruntled Sony employee. But the Pewblik Edewkated Gruberites, will go for whatever the Media Industrial Complex spoon feeds them.
Anything coming from them is suspect, including the weather.
Oh, so a 'trough' was all it took to turn category 4 hurricane Erin 90º away from nyc...
I read the headline: "35 below" and thought, this may get interesting. But then realized they were 35 below average. Yawn.
north of the alaskan range
-25 below in the Chena valley this am
first cold of the season ..
Dec was 100 yr record breaking warm
It's cold weather that will be used for political purposes.
That counts as news-- for now.
It'll be fine, until the hot war starts. Then there will be other things to talk about.
And it’s why it makes perfect sense why oil and energy are so cheap right now because nobody turns on the heat...
Whether it's cold or whether it's hot
It's going to be weather whether you like it or not
Make it stop! Send Al more money.
This should justify at least ten years of money-printing.
How Sharpton's shakedown racket operates:
http://tinyurl.com/nvjmslm
Coming? Shit it's already here...
If we don't implement global Carbon Credit taxation, the world is doomed!!!!! Tipper Gore BFTG.
Just channeling - don't shoot the messenger.
Maybe they will start a Temperature Credit Trading System modeled after REC trading. California could sell a few degrees to Chicago to adjust the temp up.
not only did I invent the internet, but I also invented the carbon credit...
Chill! Bitchez.
Meanwhile the UK is flooding again.
That's a Cold Shot, baby!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2ou-WIxfLY
I fuckin hate global warming. When I was a kid winter in North America was always warm and toasty. What's this world coming to?
war is peace, ignorance is strength, freedom is slavery, WARM is COLDCue legion of ZH zombies discussing the veracity of global warming because it is cold during the winter time.
Let's not, but say we did.
Where is Flak anyway?
... Flak is bundled up under the covers, snuggled next to Queeg/Bogie, mumbling "Any day now ... just u waitnsee".
Flak took a break from all the asshats here when someone offered him a consulting gig paying a 1/3 of a yard per annum....
The following pretty much sums it up...
Temp anomalies Nov-2013-2014
Only place below average was NA....
Good to see you back, cunt. Are you going to be honest about your gender now?
GISS, lol
Hansen never did let anyone know what was inside that big black box data grinder called GISS...
FlakFRAU got pissed because I called HER a CUNT.
Maybe when she is honest about her gender then maybe people will take her seriously.
Hopefully she will GROW UP and not get all butthurt that she was exposed.
Still dragging your knuckles I see...
Paul?
It's chemtrails I tells ya!
Blame it all on global warming, ummm, but that means warmer not colder, errr, oh that has been changed to 'climate change', I get it, so that covers any weather change at all
Too cold? You need to buy carbon credits. Too hot? You need to buy carbon credits. Too much rain? Buy carbon credits. Not enough rain? Buy carbon credits.
Buy them from Al Gore so he can reach his second $$billion.
Will hang guns still work at that temp?
"Hey hommie, dats a nice jacket y'all got dere"
Depends on the gun.
Something real tight like a luger can freeze up pretty easy, but a 1911 just keeps on working.
I don't know how the berettas are.
WRONG!
Depends on the LUBE you dope!
I've got my Seal 1 (Made by Maine-iacs) ready to go!
And revolvers always work well in wicked cold.
If you want to slather up your piece with overengineered, overpriced, dirt accumulating grease, then your the dope.
You dont clean yours?
It doesn't matter about the weather. They kill each other year round in Chicago.
Final 2014 Totals
Shot & Killed: 388
Shot & Wounded: 2231
Total Shot: 2619
Total Homicides: 456
...that's "Homiecides"
Data source? http://heyjackass.com
Weather happens... I woke up to a 10 degree morning but I expect things to suck sometimes......
The straw in my closed barn is a is clean, dry and a foot thick. There's a heated water barrel, sweet hay in the manger and corn in the trough. But I wish that my cousins out in the field had a roof.
They have a leather roof.
Hide, hide, the cows outside!!!!!!
mooooooooooo...
FROZEN COW ON A STICK IS MY FAVORITE!
Weird he? Here in Europe we’re having the hotest winter since ever! People are walking the streets in shirts!!
Yeah... damned global warming and stuff... I hope I can wear my slippers in the spring!
Tis been very mild winter in this part of Europe too.
With the exception of a couple of cold days, temperatures are too mild for this time of year.
Say so, the bugs will eat us alive this summer if it doesn’t start freezing
and if it stays this hot, and there would be a freeze in the comming month, I’m going long on wheat as russian and Ukraine crops have a few reasons to underperform this year
ah global warming, probably the most twisted debate there is. Each side with amazing contradictions and hypocrisy. really, not a surprise considering the subject matter. I love when folks invoke the carbon credits as an arguments piece as if it proves anything. as others have pointed out, the government creates money grabbing scams on things that don't exist and things that do. like bankers, that's WHAT they do. then there's those that invoke al gore as if one prostitute (who likes prostitues) is relevant. then there's those that say because public things and public institutions are involved that side must be lying as if to suggest that oil companies do not have agendas, pay off people, including elected ones and kill the rest. The last time I checked, they carry some influence on wars, lying and believe it or not that thing called science. Oh yes they were caught offering 10,000 to scientists to walk their walk. Global warming is a bit like an inverted 911, so bizzare and ugly (if true) it does weird things to people. the other funny tihing is that (like GMOs) the US has suddenly shut up (so to speak) and plays it pretty low key at the extra special international meetings. Sure the podium president likes to talk about it sometimes but that's not the first time he says one thing and does another. I also like it when people pick weather to make their argument or weather extremes (of which there's been many) to make one side or another. Like a lot of what we talk about here, it's really just math and unbalance and a flooding, historically recent flooding, unlike the world has ever seen. It all seems pretty innevitable when you think about it. That it would take hundreds of millions of years to form the most condensed form of energy, that we would discover the stuff and proceed to erect every aspect of our society around it - creating not just literal power but geopolitical as well -and again at a scale unlike the world has ever seen (see petro dollar, saudi terrorist pass, war on terror, etc, etc etc). that we would pump half of the shit into a CLOSED environmental system in a mere 100 years - now what what fraction is that when compared to 300 million? people talk about tree rings and global cooling, and emails as if they are some trump card for (again like 911) an extremely large database of evidence from an extremely wide variety of disciplines. Often forgetting that the debate is centered around the RATE of change, not the change itself - again in a curious community with the sudden use of the stuff - what a coincidene, no? (see ice core data) BUT unlike 911, it really is hard, no matter who you are or whose payroll you are on to keep things under wraps so unlike 911 and unlike Kennedy's head, history will indeed determine, in a very loud way, who is "right." While no one knows for sure what the funny arctic ice games and ocean sink tanks are doing at such a large scale, there are a number of scientists who point out (and predicted) these strange, recent, and dramatic changes in the Jet Stream along with the things they would do to our midwest and east coast and the opposite things the might do to people very north (like, what do you know Europe). Wasn't it Moscow who hit 100 not long ago.
Here are some thoughts from some others:
The jet stream, the river of air high above Earth that generally dictates the weather, usually rushes rapidly from west to east in a mostly straight direction.
But lately it seems to be wobbling and weaving like a drunken driver, wreaking havoc as it goes.
(More: Anchorage Forecast)
The more the jet stream undulates north and south, the more changeable and extreme the weather.
The most recent example occurred in mid-June when some towns in Alaska hit record highs. McGrath, Alaska, recorded an all-time high of 94 degrees on June 17. A few weeks earlier, the same spot was 15 degrees, the coldest recorded for so late in the year.
You can blame the heat wave on a large northward bulge in the jet stream, Rutgers University climate scientist Jennifer Francis said.
Several scientists are blaming weather whiplash - both high and low extremes - on a jet stream that's not quite playing by its old rules. It's a relatively new phenomenon that experts are still trying to understand.
Some say it's related to global warming, but others say it's not.
Upside-down weather also happened in May: Early California wildfires fueled by heat contrasted with more than a foot of snow in Minnesota. Seattle was the hottest spot in the nation one day, and Maine and Edmonton, Canada, were warmer than Miami and Phoenix.
Consider these unusual occurrences over the past few years:
- The winter of 2011-12 seemed to disappear, with little snow and record warmth in March. That was followed by the winter of 2012-13 when nor'easters seemed to queue up to strike the same coastal areas repeatedly.
- Superstorm Sandy took an odd left turn in October from the Atlantic straight into New Jersey, something that happens once every 700 years or so.
- One 12-month period had a record number of tornadoes. That was followed by 12 months that set a record for lack of tornadoes.
And here is what federal weather officials call a "spring paradox": The U.S. had both an unusually large area of snow cover in March and April and a near-record low area of snow cover in May. The entire Northern Hemisphere had record snow coverage area in December but the third lowest snow extent for May.
"I've been doing meteorology for 30 years and the jet stream the last three years has done stuff I've never seen," said Jeff Masters, meteorology director at the private service Weather Underground, a sister website to weather.com. "The fact that the jet stream is unusual could be an indicator of something. I'm not saying we know what it is."
Rutgers' Francis is in the camp that thinks climate change is probably playing a role in this.
"It's been just a crazy fall and winter and spring all along, following a very abnormal sea ice condition in the Arctic," Francis said, noting that last year set a record low for summer sea ice in the Arctic. "It's possible what we're seeing in this unusual weather is all connected."
Other scientists don't make the sea ice and global warming connections that Francis does. They see random weather or long-term cycles at work. And even more scientists are taking a wait-and-see approach about this latest theory. It's far from a scientific consensus, but it is something that is being studied more often and getting a lot of scientific buzz.
"There are some viable hypotheses," Stanford University climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh said. "We're going to need more evidence to fully test those hypotheses."
The jet stream, or more precisely the polar jet stream, is the one that affects the Northern Hemisphere. It dips down from Alaska, across the United States or Canada, then across the Atlantic and over Europe and "has everything to do with the weather we experience," Francis said.
It all starts with the difference between cold temperatures in the Arctic and warmer temperatures in the mid-latitudes, she explained. The bigger the temperature difference, the stronger the jet stream, the faster it moves and the straighter it flows. But as the northern polar regions warm two to three times faster than the rest of the world, augmented by unprecedented melting of Arctic sea ice and loss in snow cover, the temperature difference shrinks. Then the jet stream slows and undulates more.
The jet stream is about 14 percent slower in the fall now than in the 1990s, according to a recent study by Francis. And when it slows, it moves north-south instead of east-west, bringing more unusual weather, creating blocking patterns and cutoff lows that are associated with weird weather, the Rutgers scientist said.
Mike Halpert, the deputy director of NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, said that recently the jet stream seems to create weather patterns that get stuck, making dry spells into droughts and hot days into heat waves.
Take the past two winters. They were as different as can be, but both had unusual jet stream activity. Normally, the jet stream plunges southwest from western Washington state, sloping across to Alabama. Then it curves slightly out to sea around the Outer Banks, a swoop that's generally straight without dramatic bends.
During the mostly snowless winter of 2011-12 and the record warm March 2012, the jet stream instead formed a giant upside-down U, curving dramatically in the opposite direction. That trapped warm air over much of the Eastern U.S. A year later the jet stream was again unusual, this time with a sharp U-turn north. This trapped colder and snowier weather in places like Chicago and caused nor'easters in New England, Francis said.
But for true extremes, nothing beats tornadoes.
In 2011, the United States was hit over and over by killer twisters. From June 2010 to May 2011 the U.S. had a record number of substantial tornadoes, totaling 1,050. Then just a year later came a record tornado drought. From May 2012 to April 2013 there were only 217 substantial tornadoes - 30 fewer than the old record, said Harold Brooks, a meteorologist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory. Brooks said both examples were related to unusual jet stream patterns.
Last fall, a dip in the jet stream over the United States and northward bulge of high pressure combined to pull Superstorm Sandy almost due west into New Jersey, Francis said. That track is so rare and nearly unprecedented that computer models indicate it would happen only once every 714 years, according to a new study by NASA and Columbia University scientists.
"Everyone would agree that we are in a pattern" of extremes, NOAA research meteorologist Martin Hoerling said. "We don't know how long it will stay in this pattern.
"I've been doing meteorology for 30 years and the jet stream the last three years has done stuff I've never seen,"
Pay no attention to that gravitationally confined nuclear furnace that just happens to contain 99% of the mass of the entire solar system...
Interior Alaska
100 yr record warm Dec.
We should expect some downward revisions for Q1 GDP from Wall Street!
Weather, or not!
(Spelling is correct, spelling police!)
Yeah, well, at least there isn't much wind to exacerbate the cold in Chi-town.
On a more serious note, the excellent pizza available never tastes better than when the "hawk" is in full force.
It is particularly cold in this part of the world right now, therefore global warming is a hoax.....idiots
It is, but it does take our minds of the coming mini ice age though.
There is always one of these /\
It was a fraud when it was global cooling in the 1970s
It was a fraud when it was known as global warming.
It is a fraud now that it is known as climate change.
Like much of what gubmint produces, it is fraud.
The US Federal gubmint is a far greater menace to Earth and it's inhabitants than is the climate.
It would also seem that whatever passed for a science education for you was also a fraud...
It would also seem that whatever passed for a science education for you was merely indoctrination...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS12p0Zqlt0
Watch Ni-hub and northeast basis tomorrow.
Also, Tuesday is the one year anniversary of when Texas nearly browned out because of a down plant on the coldest morning of the year.
-42C at seven am in the great white this morning
Staying warm by shovelling my ass off here in Cottage Cuntry.
I'm strongly considering a move. Do you guys have plenty of areas far removed from the Baltimoreans? I'm guessing the cold keeps a lot of 'em at bay.
55 here in the Mojave Desert of Commiefornia.
Artic Cold weather pattern was predicted as a result of early snow accumulation in Siberia. No doubt Putin's counter reaction to economic sanctions. It is called Cold War and designed to increase use of oil and gas in US and EU to keep warm therby increasing usage and prices. Smart guy that Putin using Mother Nature as his ally.
Prolly be a big flu epidemic now that goverment sponsored toxic jabs won't cure...oh wait.
Next round of QE on deck!
It would not be necessary if we all just paid a carbon tax!
We'll have jumped the shark when a bad GDP print or employment number is blamed on solar flares or a full moon; this is close.
72 deg f here in Mexico.
The picture looks a little bit more nipply than that.
Aye chingow!
This is intentional.
Next figures coming out will be "polar blast adjusted upwards".
Harp.
Thank goodness for global warming. Without that we'd be freezing our asses off.
Finally, we can burn some oil.
Do your part, buy a gass guzzler to stave off the ice-age.
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Watch the F'ers that control the price of heating oil and energy, juice the prices like crazy now.
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V-V
Here, 27,4º C (Celsius), 45% humidity, 1,100 m (meters).
Every night it has been raining, excellent for agriculture, not so good for livestock, a colleague of mine lost eight cows with an electrical discharge (lightning) last week, they were under a tree.
He should have had a big barbecue afterwards
ban trees...
"Chicago Facing Record Lows"
A positive for Chicago.
It will keep the gangs off the street so crime will be less. Fewer shootings.
Fewer shootings is a negative for Chicago, not a positive.
If Chicago gets fewer shootings then Rahm, Obummer and the gun grabbers will claim their methods work. Better to have thousands of yutes whacking each other in a city that bans guns to get the public to realise that bans don't work.
FUCK YOU AL GORE !!
We should thank him for inventing the internet!!!! ;)
And freeing Tipper to love again.
Just like those global warmers being trouble because of sea ice a few years back.
Mother Earth keeps ice stored at both poles. The ice is there to help cool things down during the summer. Mom breaks off a big chunk and it floats down the gulfstream (look out Titanic!) Now something is wrong, the refrigerator is broken, and the ice melts all winter. Mom thinks its summer because of the all the green house gas, but it could just as well be solar flares that cause the warming. She's pouring the drinks like Yellen at the NYSE. So what is left by next summer and the summer after that? Like monetary policy, the future spending of assets implies a shortage of the same assets at some later date and a permanent change in the landscape.
How can ice melt at 30 below?
if the pressure is *extremely* low
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Phase_diagram_of_wate...
Pretty clear that understanding phase diagram for water is way above your pay scale....
Oli now back to 100$...?
Bad weather is bullish.
-24 windchill in Minneapolis in January is not news.
Mann-made globull warming.
When i was younger, and lived in Mn this was just called winter and didnt mean anything other than you would have to plug your car in. Nobody stayed home from the stores as i recall.
Times change i guess
when it gets really cold up in the arctic -40 below
we get really thick ice fog ,like driving thru clouds
100 ft visibility, very strange driving ..tastes bad too
drive out of town up the hill a few hundred ft
and you get above it due to weather inversion in the valley
it's an adventure to prowl around town in the fog ..
Screw that!
It gets below 32 and I try not to go anywhere.
It's time for more sanctions on evil Putin and the damned Russians. We need to teach those Commie bastards that they don't FK with the USA's weather.
should get cold enough to burst a lot of water pipes in Chicago
Every year there''s a January thaw in Ohio. This year's was earlier than most. So yeah, now it's going to get cold. Big deal.
It was -20F here this morning. Minus 41F or C with the wind-chill.
BTW, Friday will be even colder than Thursday, but simultaneously there is going to be the most monumental blizzard in most of eastern Europe, Romania, Ukraine, Balkans, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Israel, Egypt, Iraq and half of Iran.
Going to break a lot of cold records next week on two continents.
North Korea did it.
was the devil a disgruntled employee?
With windchill, it's -38 this morning in Sidney, Montana. Even the dogs won't go outside.
Yep. Thats January for ya.....
442F here on Venus and we are out of ice!
That stuff sorta happens when your atmosphere is 93 bar at the surface.
Let me know what the temp is where the pressure is 1 bar ;)
So then why is ngas price 25% below 2012/2013 winter when it was 2 above in jan and 6 dec above in dec with storage on par vs now?
We froze some folks.
He said "cold shot".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCNCOMgJATQ
If Americans think that it's cold,they should move up to Canada.Buy some long underwear and dress like an eskimo.
Speaking of Eskimos, I hear the sleeping arrangements are better if your just visiting.
Err, uh, I thought it is supposed to be called a "polar vortex" ???
yeah, people have a tough time understanding that increasing the heat on an atmosphere makes it expand, and decreasing it makes it contract - and what do fluid dynamics do when we have a rotating, contracting sphere, that has lost energy from its previous state...
the polar vortex has always been there, but somehow people are missing that the wobbling of the jetstream is coming from this very phenomena. wait and see if the sun pulls a 2009 again what happens.
I think everyone should just stop buying stuff because it's cold...
Or, maybe, we have no cash to buy stuff with...
ZH newsflash: It is going to be cold outside!
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Um, I am a fan of ZH but it is winter and here in Pennsylvania we have been wondering when the normal cold will show up. This is it. But the oil will be cheaper this winter.
You go to Ben Davidson's(sp) and give him an honest listen. I'm telling you folks we have the onset of a mini ice age. Buy land in the southern latitudes.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHSoxioQtwZcqdt3LK6d66tMreI4gqIC-