Posted on 02/21/2015 7:02:33 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine
Additional rounds of frigid air will continue to drill the eastern United States into the end of February, riding on the heels of bursts of record-breaking low temperatures.
By way of Siberia, additional waves of cold air will continue to roll into the Eastern states. This cross-polar flow, as it is called, travels thousands of miles across the North Pole, over frozen tundra, seas of ice and/or snow cover. As a result, the frigid air experiences little moderation until it reaches the southern U.S.
According to AccuWeather.com Chief Meteorologist Elliot Abrams, "In some cases the cold has been rivaling that of low temperature marks set during the winters of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s."
"Washington, D.C., had their first winter month record low temperature since 1994," Abrams said.
Daily records dating back to the 1800s were broken in multiple cities Thursday into Friday from the Midwest to the East.
According to AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Joe Lundberg, "Some locations in the Northeast are challenging their coldest February on record."
More waves of arctic air are coming.
"Two more big blasts of frigid air will move in through the end of the month," Lundberg said.
The first cold wave will sweep in behind the storm spreading wintry precipitation along an 1,800-mile swath this weekend. The first new wave of cold air will spread from the northern Plains on Saturday to the Midwest on Sunday, then the East by Monday.
A second wave of cold air is forecast to drop southeastward from Canada during the middle and latter part of the week.
While the cold waves will not be quite as extreme as that already experienced this month, they will prolong winter or delay spring weather, depending on your perspective.
"Temperatures will average 20-30 degrees below normal over a huge area from the southern Plains to New England during the first blast and then 10-20 degrees below normal over a similar area during the second blast," Lundberg said.
The first week or so of March will trend less cold, but temperatures may still average slightly below normal in part of the Midwest and much of the East.
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Our first measurable winter precipitation is still lying on the ground here in NC almost a week after it fell, backroads are still dicey in spots. Fell to low single digits overnight yesterday morning. Pipes froze up right in the middle of my morning shower. We’re having light sleet/snow this morning, “something” coming in Monday-Tuesday, and snow forecast for next Saturday.
Not as severe as this time last year, but it’s just cold. Today will be the first day above freezing in several days. Tomorrow, we get the typical unusually warm temps ahead of a strong cold front, so what’s going to melt will melt today and tomorrow.
Snow that lays around is unusual here. In and out in a few days time is the norm.
Everybody knows the global warming “deniers” are causing these cold waves in order to make Algore’s Save Da Planet Commandos look bad.
What if it is cold into March? Who ya gonna call?
That’s pretty balmy!
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So it is the Putin weather machine at work. Rove had better take notes.
You know, if the libs been smart enough to fake the data the other way, they could have convinced a lot of people we’re having global cooling
Where’s Al Gore? Doesn’t he have any comment on this???
We’re a little over a week away from March now, so it’s looks to be cold into March on the basis of current forecasts. I don’t mind a little winter, I prefer seasons. But protracted temps in the teens and below are just not enjoyable.
Don't know if you've ever been to Central Park in NYC but if you have you'll surely remember the many rocky outcrops that are seen there.I've seen documentaries which say that those outcrops represent irrefutable proof that Manhattan was once covered by a glacier that was hundreds of feet thick.
Elliot, don't you mean the 1870s, 1880s and 1890s?
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