Posted on 02/05/2021 5:51:21 PM PST by rickmichaels
Residents in the Midwest are bracing for a 'flash freeze' set to send temperatures plummeting as low as -35 degrees Fahrenheit (-37 Celsius).
The severe cold snap will be caused by a polar vortex pushing arctic winds down into the US, where all 50 states - even Hawaii - are expected to experience below freezing temperatures next Monday.
More than 212 million Americans will affected by the bitterly cold conditions, CNN reports.
However, the icy weather will be at its most extreme in the Midwest, where preparations are already in place to close schools and roads for fear of fatalities.
In some areas, temperatures will be up to 30 degrees below average. Meteorologists predict it could get so cold that car antifreeze could solidify.
The National Weather Service has warned that the flash freeze will 'quickly turn any wet or slushy roads to ice,' and create dangerous driving conditions.
Areas of Minnesota and Iowa will likely get so cold that it could be unsafe for children to leave home and attend school.
'As temperatures fall some 25 to 30 degrees below seasonal averages, arts of the Upper Midwest will near the thresholds necessary to cancel, or in the case of 2021, virtualize classes,' CNN meteorologist Pedram Javaheri stated.
Officials in St. Paul, Minnesota, say they will cancel classes on Monday if the forecast still shows that the temperature will be below -25 degrees Fahrenheit.
Meanwhile, there are also concerns that rivers flowing through the Midwest could freeze over, creating water traffic problems.
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Highly recommend exploring the interior of the Big Island of Hawaii, the changes in landscape are incredible. Some areas look no different than ranch areas of the American West.
Yeah, some here.. I just check the forecast for southern Ohio and it just looks like...February. Lows in the teens, high in the upper 20's..
Seems the media lies about everything nowadays... Even the weather.....
At extreme low temps it can gel, like diesel fuel does. But if it’s low enough to gel antifreeze, ain’t nothin gonna work.
Bring on that global warming!
While it is supposed to reach seasonal lows of -10 here in my flyover, the ground did not even freeze until last week. Ground usually freezes by deer season in mid-November.
Actually glad it will get cold for a bit. Kills off insects and any escaped exotic pets, among other things.
Straight anti-freeze can freeze.
Only if diluted properly will it NOT freeze.
PRE-DILUTED anti freeze isn’t a good idea. YOU know what you need where YOU LIVE.
Get the concentrate & mix your own.
NEVER us straight concentrated anti-freeze.
Won many a bar bet in the 60’s with that trick. Pour straight anti-freeze into an ice cube tray. Put into freezer...ICE CUBES OF ANTI-FREEZE resulted.
or
F=(9/5)C+32
Let F=C
C=(9/5)C+32
-(4/5)C=32
C=-32(5/4)
C=-40
F=C=-40
And then there’s the windchill. I walked out of work yesterday and got hit with high winds. It felt cold enough to kill a man pretty quick. I think it’s about -14C with windchill right now.
Average annual temp on the North Slope is around 12°F.
-4 currently and the neighbors are on their backyard rink right now.
We’re to reach 80 in my neck of the woods in Texas.
My friend in Minot, however, is right now at MINUS 29 with windchill and it’s going to be even colder this Monday.
YIKES.
“all 50 states”
Does that include Hawaii?
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