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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Exactly.
Very.
Isn’t she married to Ringo Starr?
Right you are! I totally forgot about that. They married in 1981...that’s a long haul. We were married in ‘83, so I know!
Ha.
Thanks for the pictures.
Barbara Bach, Married to Ringo Starr— April 27, 1981 - present. What a rarity. A good thing.
When Mark Harmon and Pam Dawber (was on Mork and Mindy with Robin Williams) considered marriage they each had decided that if they ever married someone it would have to be a “real” marriage for love, not a Hollywood celebrity one.
Married March 21, 1987 - present
Gif....”and your little dog, too.”
Kristi Noem: “She doesn’t worry me.”
Wait. What?
Algore?
They are forecasting 3 to 6 inches of snow on Tuesday in Houston!
I miss Guam, I really do.
Jefferson Notch was a winter wonderland, ditto the Cherry Mountain loop.
The part of Mount Washington and Madison you could see below the clouds was beautifully snow covered.
We could use a little more snow cover on the lower elevations though.
This is going to affect Northern Florida with even possible ice/snow in Ft. Walton/Panama City area....so Florida does not entirely skip this.
It's a polar vortex!!
here comes the polar vortex bringing the atmospheric river of the bomb cyclone. I love their scary new titles that they pull out of their butts to scare the feeble minded.
Are we at the cannibalism part yet? I like the cannibalism part.
High of 70 degrees today in 92270.
Went swimming & soaked in the spa six times in the last two weeks.
Forecast of bright sun & 73-degree high tomorrow.
All groovy here.
Wow the media hysterical rantings, like this cold air mass has never happened in the history of the world.
Us ice fisherman are loving it.
Snow and ice for New Orleans as well.
so what about RI, NJ, MD? they mention states all around them but not those. Do they have some sort of protective shield?
This Global Warming is killing me. I did have extra groceries delivered cuz I’m hibernating. Upstate New York.
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