Polar vortex headed for US will bring ‘exceptionally cold’ temps in the new year: ‘Weather models are screaming’ (only 6.11 years left)

NY Post ^ | 12/30/24 | Alex Oliveira

[Libloather]

January is shaping up to be the coldest in a decade as the polar vortex dips south across the eastern half of the United States — shocking a nation that has enjoyed an unusually balmy end of the year.

“It’s going to get cold, and then very cold,” a Fox Weather meteorologist told The Post Monday.

“Based on the latest long-range data, this January has the potential to be the coldest since 2014,” they added.

Temperatures are expected to begin dropping from the Rocky Mountains to the East Coast around Thursday, but the real plunge will set in sometime between seven and 14 days from now.

The plunge will bring wind chills across the Midwest dipping below zero, “exceptionally cold” temperatures down to 20 degrees below average in some places, and freezing conditions setting in as far south as the Gulf coast and even into Florida — though it is still too early to forecast exact temperatures.

And there is a “pretty good chance” the vortex will bring with it “significant winter storms,” Fox Weather cautioned.

“The prime window for these winter storms would be the middle to end of next week,” they said, adding that the southeast could even see snow or ice.

While most polar vortex forecasts are often unpredictable, Fox Weather said this round of cold is different.

“This is a very highly confident forecast. Across the board the weather models are screaming at us that this really cold air is on the way,” the meteorologist said.

The cold is expected to persist throughout January, with relief coming once February rolls around.

[cableguymn]

I bought a plow truck and my kid got an old snow machine running. This isn’t supposed to happen. It’s supposed to be warm and snowless this “winter”.

[Hiddigeigei]

"The Politicizing of Weather is the last straw."
“...the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” --- H. L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women.

[ncalburt]

Yes the State Of Fear Globalist Socialist Media PR campaign
never stops

A Great Book to read .

[ebshumidors]

I’m smoking 20lbs of Mangalista bacon.

[rellic]

“1975 coldest I saw was -70 degrees Naval Reactors Training Site in Arco Idaho.”
Minus 112 with wind chill, Minot ND 1975.

People and warm blooded animals sweat to help regulate
our body temperatures. That evaporation
cools us off. Even at -40 you can work up a sweat.
That sweat can kill you if you get exposed to wind
-40 can become -65 very quick.
I suppose that is why I live in Hawaii these days.

[oldtech]

A forecast of a very cold January but a warmer February sounds better than average to many of us.

[EliRoom8]

As an UBER driver, I very much appreciate the “heads up.”

[Libloather]

I’m seeing temps that won’t be above freezing for the next four days. I call that a vortex.