Posted on 01/17/2025 9:37:43 PM PST by Morgana
Dozens of US states will endure the lowest temperatures they have felt in years as a polar vortex brings 'life-threatening' cold next week
The National Weather Service (NWS) said that much of the Lower 48 should brace for 'the coldest air-mass of the season to date' from Friday to January 24.
Meteorologists predict temperatures could plunge up to 45 degrees below average, engulfing at least 20 states across the Plains, the Great Lakes and the interior Northeast in below-zero temperatures.
States in the polar vortex path include Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, the Dakotas, Montana and Wyoming.
Parts of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Utah and Idaho could also experience below-zero temperatures.
Washington DC is set to see highs only in the 20s, moving President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration indoors. The first time this has happened in 40 years.
Wind gusts of up to 30 miles per hour will blast through the layers of the hundreds of thousands of MAGA enthusiasts expected to fill the national mall Monday.
'This poses a great risk of hypothermia and frostbite to exposed skin. Have a cold weather survival kit if traveling,' the NWS warned.
The temperatures will also likely freeze and burst pipes and significantly strain power grids as people scramble to heat their homes.
Snow and slippery roads are also set to hit the mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Sunday, with a wintery mix potentially in the Deep South early next week.
All states in the Lower 48, and more than 80 percent of its residents, will see below-freezing temperatures.
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I’m 80....For 70 years, it was called “cold and windy”. Now it’s a vortex...
Until we went to Canada with my parents and my dad cooked some Walleye. Then he couldn't get enough.
When these dogs look you in the eye...it’s totally mesmerizing.
Looks like some Errmen there...
“I think Washington state has the best climate in the country, overall.”
Keep in mind western and eastern WA have entirely different climates. Having lived east of the Cascades my entire life (other than university on the west side), I’ve experienced sort of a symmetrical temperature range here....
Low of -22°F (in 1990s) and high of 122°F (in 2020). Western WA doesn’t seem a range anything like that. And over here, in the Columbia Basin we see 8 inches average annual precipitation, far less than the west side.
Midweek the forecast is for 3-5 inches of snow in Tallahassee, maybe hell is freezing over.
Western Washington is probably where I’d like to live. Something rural, but not too far from a large municipality, but not close to the million population city types.
There are seasons here in Florida!
It is slightly less hot in winter, more hot in summer LOL
But seriously it has been dipping just below 40 deg F at night this month. But gets to 60 deg during the day.
I lived on border of WA & OR for 12+ years. There it was golf weather 300+days during the year.
Assuming the dome will shut for N.Dame-OSU. Prefer outside for these games.
So, we shouldn't expect it to get very cold like it does the Majority of years, huh?
Would you like some shares in the Brooklyn Bridge?
They can create climate hysteria out of any swing in the weather.
Yes we do get frost few days of year. It even has snowed occasionally. But I never have to shovel it. It all melts by afternoon. I enjoy that weather 10 days every year. My light jacket and long pants get used 10 days every year.
I have to go to the grocery store Today! Bare shelves by Monday.
And, just like that! Winter!
Our winter in northeast Oklahoma consists of January and February, with an occasional cold day or so in December.
I love walleye! We used to order it from the Indians in Red Lake Minnesota. Sooooo good, but too pricey for us now.
We went to the same town for years. Notre Dame de Pontemain. My dad found a Walleye hole....and we’d go back and forth...just reeling them in...and good size, too. And the perch in this Lake were large and awesome. We caught those right off the dock...
Here in Tennessee the forecast is for one day of single digit lows.
Guess what. Last January we had two days of single digit lows.
It is Winter.
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