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Posted on 01/17/2025 9:37:43 PM PST by Morgana
Dozens of US states will endure the lowest temperatures they have felt in years as a polar vortex brings 'life-threatening' cold next week
The National Weather Service (NWS) said that much of the Lower 48 should brace for 'the coldest air-mass of the season to date' from Friday to January 24.
Meteorologists predict temperatures could plunge up to 45 degrees below average, engulfing at least 20 states across the Plains, the Great Lakes and the interior Northeast in below-zero temperatures.
States in the polar vortex path include Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, the Dakotas, Montana and Wyoming.
Parts of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Utah and Idaho could also experience below-zero temperatures.
Washington DC is set to see highs only in the 20s, moving President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration indoors. The first time this has happened in 40 years.
Wind gusts of up to 30 miles per hour will blast through the layers of the hundreds of thousands of MAGA enthusiasts expected to fill the national mall Monday.
'This poses a great risk of hypothermia and frostbite to exposed skin. Have a cold weather survival kit if traveling,' the NWS warned.
The temperatures will also likely freeze and burst pipes and significantly strain power grids as people scramble to heat their homes.
Snow and slippery roads are also set to hit the mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Sunday, with a wintery mix potentially in the Deep South early next week.
All states in the Lower 48, and more than 80 percent of its residents, will see below-freezing temperatures.
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Meh
Those four people are ALL MEN cross-dressers pretending to be women. And they rose in our military.
Central Iowa right now is 12 degrees with -5 windchill. Even by today’s wimpy standards, no NWS cold warning until 3 am tonight when windchill gets below -20.
Oh Noes!
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Forecast for Tuesday in Atlanta at the moment is a high of 33 degrees and 50% chance of snow. Up from 30% chance yesterday morning.
We lost power for 24 hours in last weeks event. Even with a generator and fireplace it was not pleasant. 😣
Yeah, it is called winter, yah pinheads.
You’re making me hungry!
If we had built that wall in Greenland maybe this wouldn’t be happening ...
I hear you! I usually buy frozen cod, which is a poor substitute for walleye, but has a similar texture. Around here, catfish is king, but I don’t care for it; the texture is off, imho.
I lived in Camas for a dozen years. Loved the area. Clark county was reliably red in those days. We moved to near Seattle to be closer to kids in univ of Washington. That was a small town of Marysville. Weather was more cold and more rainy than Camas.
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