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US could face coldest Christmas in YEARS as temperatures drop 'much below normal' and arctic air mass blitzes southern states: Freezing onslaught will bring major snowstorms and holiday travel chaos for millions
Daily Mail UK ^ | December 19, 2022 | AP

Posted on 12/18/2022 10:44:23 PM PST by Morgana

Much of the United States will either get a White Christmas or a bitterly cold one, as the forecasts for the country see snowstorms and temperatures in the deep south as low as the 20s.

Forecasters are warning of treacherous holiday travel and life-threatening cold for much of the nation as an arctic air mass blows into the already-frigid southern United States, with experts predicting the 'coldest Christmas in years.'

The coming week has the potential for 'the coldest air of the season' as the strong artic front marches across the eastern two-thirds of the country in the days before Christmas, according to the latest forecasts from the federal Weather Prediction Center. 

The National Weather Service is predicting a 'major snowstorm' from the southwest and midwest to the eastern seaboard on next weekend, as Christmas arrives on Sunday.  

According to AccuWeather, the storm may begin Wednesday in the Rockies, with snow potentially showing up as far south as Dallas and Nashville. 

The storm will likely head toward the east coast, but as rain, as we hit the weekend, with one meteorologist telling the New York Daily News that flight delays and cancellations are to be expected.

Regardless of weather you get snow or just freezing rain, you can be expecting a chill as Santa arrives on the 25th. 

'We're looking at much-below normal temperatures, potentially record-low temperatures leading up to the Christmas holiday,' said Zack Taylor, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

The polar air arrives as an earlier storm system gradually winds down in the northeastern U.S. after burying parts of the region under two feet of snow.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: brrrrrr; extrablankets; freezeyourtoesoff
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To: GaltAdonis
Global warming is going to be the death of us...

Or maybe nuclear war with the Russians. 😀🤪😁🤗😆

41 posted on 12/19/2022 4:29:59 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: Morgana

Wow. Snow and cold temperatures in the winter. Whod’a thunk it?


42 posted on 12/19/2022 4:32:39 AM PST by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: Morgana
Regardless of weather you get snow or just freezing rain, you can be expecting a chill as Santa arrives on the 25th.

Hmmmmm… did the editor let that slip on purpose…?

It’s a nice ZERO degrees here in Northern Wisconsin at the moment.

43 posted on 12/19/2022 4:35:26 AM PST by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals crazy!)
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To: Morgana
This could turn out to be the coldest and snowiest Christmas since Rudolph saved Christmas with his bright, red nose.

If I live to be 100 years old, I'll never forget about that big snowstorm of a few years ago. Why the weather just closed in and...well, you might not believe it but we almost missed Christmas...I don't know what we would have done without Rudolph to pull us through."


44 posted on 12/19/2022 4:45:03 AM PST by SamAdams76 (4,733,703 | Truth Social | 87,874,312 | Twitter | Trump Followers)
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To: metmom
This weather system is alarming. It has all the ingredients of a major winter storm.

We have a little excess global warming here. Would you like some? 😆🤪😀

45 posted on 12/19/2022 4:50:22 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: Morgana

This is what happens when Americans have yet to make abortion on demand available and free up until the time of birth, or something like that.....


46 posted on 12/19/2022 4:51:44 AM PST by machman
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To: Libloather
The weather channel is calling it The Siberian Express.

Putin's Fault!Tm

47 posted on 12/19/2022 4:51:55 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Morgana

Ah, yes. But, “global warming!”


48 posted on 12/19/2022 4:52:39 AM PST by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.." )
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To: djpg
Most definitely global warming is the reason for all the cold. Anybody who disagrees are just SCIENCE DENIERS who probably also believe that the world is flat.

In fact, global warming will likely cause the oceans of the world to freeze over. This will be because the polar ice caps will be melting, sending all that frigid water down towards the Equator, causing all those oceans down there to freeze, not to mention turning the rain forests into a frozen winterland. Any polar bears escaping the heat of the Poles will need to make their new habitat in these now frozen rain forests. And it will all be because of global warming.

Nobody should be allowing SCIENCE DENIERS into their homes over the Christmas holiday. In fact, they should be made to sleep outside in the snow in their barefeet and given only a thin blanket. That'll teach them to be a little more scientifically minded.

49 posted on 12/19/2022 4:55:40 AM PST by SamAdams76 (4,733,703 | Truth Social | 87,874,312 | Twitter | Trump Followers)
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To: caww

I’m on the MS Gulf Coast and we’ll be having lows in the low-mid 20s over the weekend.
No wonder AOC’s “Greta Moment” crashed


50 posted on 12/19/2022 5:00:35 AM PST by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: Morgana

A cold Chr*stmas holiday weekend, then back to seasonable temperatures...yawn. Man up, America...don’t let the media lead you around by the nose.


51 posted on 12/19/2022 5:05:54 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: MayflowerMadam

My son and his fiancé are driving to Kansas on Thursday and Friday (from Georgia)… I’m worried for them! I am going to insist they take some zero degree sleeping bags with them, plus matches, etc.


52 posted on 12/19/2022 5:08:40 AM PST by LilFarmer
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To: Mark17

Yes, Please petition God to send some our way.

Before April.


53 posted on 12/19/2022 5:17:01 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Morgana

25 degrees here in South Alabama...


54 posted on 12/19/2022 5:17:16 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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To: Alas Babylon!
In Dixie land where I was born,
Early on one frosty morn...
55 posted on 12/19/2022 5:19:44 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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To: Morgana

It. Happens. Every. Single. Winter.


56 posted on 12/19/2022 5:25:48 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: metmom
Yes, Please petition God to send some our way.

Before April.

Well, God answers all prayers, but sometimes He says, not yet. You must prepare yourself, for the possibility, that God might say, wait till April. 🤪🤗😆😀😁😅

57 posted on 12/19/2022 5:31:48 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: CFW
“ I’m not looking forward to it. I’m too old to deal with extreme cold. LOL!”

lol. Different strokes. In my older years I have gotten into cold weather camping. I camp in weather like this.

58 posted on 12/19/2022 5:37:24 AM PST by circlecity (at)
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To: Morgana

God has a sense of humor when man claims to control the climate:-)


59 posted on 12/19/2022 5:41:35 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: LilFarmer

“I am going to insist they take some zero degree sleeping bags with them, plus matches, etc.”

Food, water, flashlights, crank radio that will charge cell phones... Having grown up in western NY, and lived in Alaska for 20 years, I know you can’t be too careful.


60 posted on 12/19/2022 5:44:27 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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