P.S. It's WINTER! We've done this before!
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.
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A ‘go’ bag is ALWAYS a good idea.
All good ideas! I keep an emergency bag in my car just like this, but I’m not sure my son is as careful!
Coldest winter in decades thanks to Global Warming. Thank you fake science.
We live 80 miles from the Gulf. Thursday the temps are supposed to go from 60 during the day then down to 12 overnight.
Grand Solar Minimum is a bitch.
It’s Winter, why does everyone get so hyperventilated when we get the typical weather and the fact that it snows and gets cold.
What weathermen used to call the “Siberian Express” or “Alberta Clipper” in the days before Glo-Bull Warming!
By the way, where is that “Glo-Bull” Warming?
because Global Warming
Extra blankets, hard candy, a can or two of STERNO. That is what we were told to carry in autos back in 1968 Alaska, in the military.
I’m waiting for the Polar Vortex. Whatever happened to that?
I had a beat up old Opel in Germany in 73. The heater didn’t work, so we took a hanger and made it into a holder for a can of Sterno. It hung from the glove compartment and heated the car, but probably wasn’t a smart thing to do.
P.S. It's WINTER! We've done this before!
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/fl-snow-in-south-florida-forty-years-ago-20170117-story.html
Christmas in Orlando, 29-30*?
It’s supposed to be 50 degrees here in Maine on Friday....with rain.
It could be a lot worse if it wasn’t for global warming.
metmom :" This weather system is alarming. It has all the ingredients of a major winter storm.
"It’s very strong, high winds, it’s going to be cold until it warms suddenly and starts to rain.
That usually ends in icing as the surfaces of objects don’t have a chance to warm before the rain hits them,
and so the rain freezes on contact."
The snowpack, of those of us who have it, will become saturated, and then the temperature is expected to drop rapidly Friday evening to Saturday morning
which will freeze the water logged snowpack into a brick of ice, and then the precip is as likely as not to change to a period of freezing rain or sleet ,
before switching over to snow again..
Of course, all that rain on frozen ground will just run off, resulting 8n localized flooding."
Sacajaweau :" I boil a kettle of water for 30 to 40 minutes. Going from 35& to 45% makes a huge difference in comfort.
It’ll hold up for almost the whole day."
We’re noon at 23 degrees here in Western Pa. Will stay pretty much there for a coupl days it seems. Not much more than an inch of snow from trying to really snow but doesn’t get there. ....”Teaser snow”.
Get some of those hand warmers.....they are handy just to keep in the glove box during winter months.
Your ping is a good reminder that I need to check the gas for the generator.
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