Posted on 11/07/2014 6:18:31 AM PST by LibWhacker
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An explosive storm surpassing the intensity of 2012's Superstorm Sandy is expected to reach Alaska's western Aleutian Islands over the weekend and bring unseasonably frigid temperatures to much of the U.S. next week, weather forecasters said Thursday.
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The storm potentially could be one of the most intensive to ever hit the North Pacific, weather service forecaster Brian Hurley said. The Coast Guard and Alaska state emergency responders were keeping a close eye on its strength.
The system is expected to push cold air into much of the lower 48 states next week, forecaster Bob Oravec said. By the weekend, high temperatures in Minneapolis will only reach the upper 20s, and mid-30s are expected in Chicago — more than 15 degrees below normal.
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"It looks like winter's starting early," Oravec said.
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Cold = weather.
Hot = Global Warming.
Remember kids, its climate change because the word, “INTENSE” was used!!!
I’d much rather have the cold over snow. Glad Chicagoland will see little, if any, snow next week.
LOL. I noticed that too.
If I recall correctly, last year when it was cold:
Cold = Global Warming
Remember - that extraordinarily cold Arctic air is because the ‘Polar Vortex’...ah, ‘wobbled’ out of place....um, because its so hot it just ‘fell south’...
Or some such nonsense.
This system has been one of the largest Pacific Cyclones of all time. Fascinating to watch its progress from Asian typhoon to winter storm in the Aleutians, to major weather system that drives us into winter weather over most of the US.
TC
“Superstorm” Sandy was either a category 1 hurricane or a tropical storm at the time of landfall depending on the report. The destruction was amazing, but it was not an intense hurricane.
Hope to get a bit of its tail in SoCal.
Severe Gorebull Warming is not coming to the US. Instead we have another polar vortex swooping down on America. More proof that Al Gore is another aging rat hippie pushing bs instead of science.
The only Gorebull warming Al Gore will face, will be when he goes to hell for pushing his Gorebull warming lies on the world and profiting big time from it
"It looks like winter's starting early because of the horrible effects of Global Warming.," Oravec said.
There, fixed it.
Won’t happen...unfortnuatley
Meteorological ‘bomb’ is about to go off in the Bering Strait
http://mashable.com/2014/11/05/weather-bomb-bering-strait-alaska/#:eyJzIjoiZiIsImkiOiJfa3kwYW55Y29uNm94dmoyMSJ9
Typhoon Nuri, along with its reincarnation as a non-tropical system, appears likely to combine with several other factors to direct multiple rounds of cold, Arctic air into the Midwest and eastern U.S. during the remainder of November.
Links for AK weather (more specific)- rough ride coming for some areas: http://www.arh.noaa.gov/
I don’t know if you’ve found this map but if you are a weather watcher it is really interesting. The way the winds slow across landmasses in the Gulf is pretty surprising. How the data is collected I don’t know but it is pretty accurate in the spots I’ve checked and where I live.
http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-123.28,61.48,530
Weather forecasters say this about any storm that looks well organized ... way overused.
Great map...thanks for posting. You can really get a sense of the strength of the storm about to impact the western Aleutian Islands today.
I hope the polar bears can get off their iceberg prisons in time.
That’d be good. Maybe it would give us a little respite from the drought mongers whose mission in life is to measure, tax and sniff every drop of water we use?!?!
This winter may see the formation of new glaciers in Mid-Canada ... in 100 years they will be 2km high and have advanced over much of Canada and northern US ... side benefit: the Seattle Far Side will be no more ... could be time to accelerate those experiments on bringing back the Wooly Mammoth, Cave Bear, and everybody’s favorite Smilodons ...
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