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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Global warming makes it cold. Stop driving your SUV. And cancel the pipeline.
And in July when its hot:
Global warming makes it hot. Stop driving your SUV. And cancel the pipeline.
Good grief. There is no "water traffic" in the Midwest in winter except for ice fishermen. The rivers freeze up every year.
-40F = -40C, amazing!
- 40
You up around Helen? Winter storm watch for north GA on Saturday night. I’m in east central AL and we’ve got sleet in the forecast tonight. Next weekend looks iffy for another cold clipper moving in, too.
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beat me by 13 seconds.....but we all know the true temp at -40 is 233 Kelvin
Back when I was growing up, it got so cold at night that the fire in our fireplace would freeze. If we tried to throw another log on, the fire would shatter and send shards across our living room floor. We'd have to sweep them up before they thawed and burned our house down.
This is a La Nina year. It's cold and wet to the north and dry and warm to the south. Central Colorado is in the boundary zone. This time we're on the warm and dry side.
75 here in central tx
Temperatures dropped down in the 50s in many areas on Thursday, with Jason Shitanishi, chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Honolulu Farm Service Agency telling The Star Advertiser: 'I haven't been that cold in a long time'.
Snow even fell atop Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, and Maui's Haleakala on Thursday. Rangers closed roads near the summit of Haleakala, citing ice on the road and dangerous driving conditions. It is the third year in a row that snow has been reported near the peak of the volcano.
From the article.
Recap. It is winter. It gets cold. Rinse and repeat.
Same here. High of 60 in Magalia, Ca predicted.
I’m sure the summits of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, maybe others will be freezing. What’s ignorant about the writing? Alaska always has below freezing nights, 12 months of the year.
You sound like my father in law 😎
Oh, it’s “climate change” now. If it’s a little more or less than the “average” in whatever, then the world will end in 11 years, you’re evil, get out of your car and in the electric bus, and give them more money.
70’s here in San Diego,
and Haters gonna Hate.
“All 50?
Hawaii?”
Sure. It has happened before, not so many years ago.
And snow in Hawaii is not at all unusual. There is a mountain with snow and there is an observatory on it so they need to keep the road clear, so there is at least one snowplow in Hawaii too!
Hawaii?
Only 50 states. Hawaii is one of the remaining 7 not affected, of the 57.
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