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Climatologist Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. announced: 'I cannot recall last time I have seen such a cold anomaly forecast across almost entire USA.' While we end November on a warm note here in the eastern US, there are changes unfolding across the Northern Hemisphere that will likely bring a widespread very cold air mass into the US next week. This cold air mass is first going to arrive in Alaska this upcoming weekend with some spots in that state plunging to 40 degrees below zero and way below normal for early December. After that, the cold air dives into the...

On July 1, the high temperature reached 64 degrees and it drizzled all day. Things didn't get much better after that. July 2009 has gone down in the record books as Chicago's coldest July in almost seven decades, and the third coldest since the National Weather Service started keeping records in 1872. How cold was it? It was so cold that: • The average temperature was 69.4 degrees, the same average temperature as Fairbanks, Alaska. • The high temperature was below 80 degrees for 14 of the 31 days (45 percent). • In the early morning hours of July 20,...