Posted on 11/11/2019 3:16:56 PM PST by Olog-hai
An arctic air mass that brought snow and ice to an area stretching from the Rocky Mountains to northern New England on Monday was poised to give way to record-breaking cold temperatures.
In Chicago, where as much as 6 inches (15 centimeters) of snow fell, an Envoy Air flight from Greensboro, North Carolina, slid off an icy runway at OHare International Airport as it tried to land at about 7:45 a.m. None of the 38 passengers and three crew members were injured, according to the citys aviation department. And in Kansas, the highway patrol reported that a truck driving on the highway lost control on an icy road and slammed head-on into another truck, killing a juvenile in the other vehicle.
Snowfall totals could reach up to a foot or more in some areas of Indiana, Michigan and Vermont, according to the National Weather Service. Other places in the path of the air mass saw ice and rain. [ ]
The snow and ice was just the first punch from a weather system that pushed frigid air from Siberia across an area stretching from the Rocky Mountains to the East Coast. Temperatures below freezing were forecast as far south as Texas Gulf Coast.
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It’s just the VORTEXXXXXXX
“We are entering a mini ice age. Grand Solar Minimum.”
https://www.theorganicprepper.com/grand-solar-minimum/
Yes I remember that storm very well!
I was stationed at DIA on Bolling AFB and we finally moved into family housing on Bolling that day. We were living in an apartment in Oxon Hills (by Rosecroft raceway) and by the time the mover’s truck got to Bolling and started unloading, the rain turned to ice and then snow. It snowed all night. The boxes I had put out side looked like strange, blocky snowmen.
Never was so glad to simply walk to work instead of driving!
This is why I love Ca. 70 and sunny today and next 10 days. No winter
Wisconsin already has record early snowfall - snow yesterday and snow tomorrow, Currently going to a high of 10 today - January weather in November.
Don’t know about the book, but the forecast is for the cold spell, which is just beginning, to last 500 years
in May 2003. Almost 16 years ago, during the previous sun cycle. Even then there were only a few spots as shown.
And down on the MS Gulf Coast it’s gonna be around 27F tonight...pretty rare for pre-January/February...
Proof that ... I should have read the fine print.
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