Frigid Week Ahead for Most of the U.S.

Roy Spencer ^ | 11/7/2014 | Roy Spencer

[Signalman]

Brace yourself for more “polar vortex” news stories by the middle of next week.

An unusually widespread and persistent cold air mass will grip all but the U.S. Southwest and Florida by late in the week.

It’s origins can be traced back to eastern Siberia a week ago, then it crossed the Arctic Ocean and northwest Canada. It will enter Montana and the Dakotas on Sunday, then gradually sink south and east as the week progresses.

The latest forecast for 7-day average temperature departures from normal shows widespread 10 to 15 deg. F below normal over much of the nation for the seven days starting next Wednesday

That’s a whole week of unusually cold weather, folks. Recent cold events have been very short-lived, sweeping through rapidly, lasting not much more than a day or so. This one is going to stick around.

[Zhang Fei]

We’re gonna hit a new Ice Age and these cultists are gonna tell us it’s the result of man-made global warming.

[Jeff Chandler]

Click for weather forecast

[Paul R.]

Brace yourself for more “polar vortex” news stories by the middle of next week.

We are already getting the stories in our local (S. IL and W. KY) TV weathercasts...

...Just in time to remember the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald, as well as the Great Storm of 1913.

I happened to stumble across this:

Capt. Cooper & US Coast Guard Radio Transmissions on Nov. 10th, 1975 -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK3dZ0YwOwI

Capt. Cooper was one brave dude to go back out there to look for the Fitzgerald. (The Coast Guard request starts about 9:50 in.)

Cooper's comments here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK3dZ0YwOwI

[miliantnutcase]

The gales of Nov are whipping up. Massive low pressure is pushing in.

[octex]

I think you’re a couple of hundred miles South of me, so hope you don’t get too cold.

Here in DFW, it’s supposed to hit Monday night and have lows in the 30s later in the week and next weekend. Not wanting the cold this early! It hurts my feet, hands and knees! (Yep, I’m in my 70s)

[trebb]

-1-1/2 here on the MS Gulf Coast - means it will be pleasant outside.

[I_Publius]

Time for some duck hunting here in Texas. Yee haw. :)

[BluH2o]

Played golf yesterday here in western CO ... in regular summer attire, shorts and polo shirt. Sunny, temperature in high 60’s. This coming week the cold air will stay east of the Rockies ... more golfing weather ahead. ;)

[bgill]

Uh, it’s November, not August.

[Robert DeLong]

Let me alter that, about -130, LOL