Posted on 12/21/2022 1:29:14 AM PST by Libloather
How do they taste on rye?
It happens.
It’s called “weather”.
“...within a few years winter snowfall will become a very rare and exciting event. “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is...” ~ Dr David Viner, super smart climate scientician
From the year 2000...
I’m looking at Beckley WV and they go from 39 degrees at 3AM to 5 degrees at 10AM on Friday. Windchill goes from 32 to -16.
It’s called “Winter”. We get it sometimes, even in the deep south. Although, it has been several years since we have had temperatures drop down into the low teens, as is expected for this Friday, it has happened before.
Check on your elderly relatives and make sure they are not trying to save money by having their gas cut off, trying to heat only one room in their house, etc. People can actually freeze to death in their sleep when it is this cold and they are not prepared for it. Also, houses in the south are not as insulated as those in the north and the upcoming 48 hours of extreme cold will wreak havoc on many home’s heating and plumbing systems.
Western KY is forecast to drop from ~44 deg to -2 deg from Th. noon to Fri. sunrise, wind chill -20 early Sat. morning. Some blowing snow. Northern Plains states denizens will chuckle, but, people in this region aren’t quite used to that. (Not even a white Christmas since 2010.. Avg. low is 27-28 deg.)
It’s pretty certain a few people will not take precautions and animals or people will die as a result. I’ve been telling my wife to advise her Filipina friend who has, oh, maybe 3 doz. chickens and some quail, too. The friend hasn’t experienced anything quite like this in the several years she’s been here...
The explanation from one of our local mets is that in this case, air from Siberia has been drawn over the north Pole and is plowing into the Central USA...
Pooty’s revenge?
I remember them being called “Alberta Clipper” and “Siberian Express.”
Not the first time for cold weather. I remember way back in January 1962 it was so cold from the Rockies to the Ozarks it broke up all the paved roads there. Record lows in Carlsbad NM.
March 14, 1968. 14 inches of blowing snow which shut down the area of Kansas, Mo, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
Then 30 below zero in 1978, and 1979 in the Ozarks.
It was blamed on THE COMING ICE AGE.
Those drastic drops can be really bad. You hear trees snapping. We are betting on losing power but we have gas heaters and stove.
We’re ready, too.
We lost a few trees last week from the snow we weren’t supposed to get.
OMG! Sub-zero. In December. In the mountains.
[sigh]
Moved to The Ozarks from Southern California a few months ago. -24 degrees forecast for tomorrow. Interesting.
43 deg. F in Carbondale and Cape Girardeau @ 10:53 a.m. today. 46 deg. F @ Paducah @ 10:53 a.m. 15 deg. F in St. Louis (Lambert Field) @ 10:53 a.m., and dropping fast. Paducah is forecast @ -3 & windy around sunrise Friday. STL around -7.
For us, this is really nasty stuff. Some of my daughter’s chickens are too dumb to stay in the warm chicken house overnight (they like to roost on top.) So, I’m gonna have to force the issue...
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