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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My dad bought 42 acres of timberland near Yacolt, WA back around 1953. It’s still in the family but I haven’t been there in many years. Yacolt is about midway between Portland and Mount St. Helens.
Supposed to be -25 for two days with a windchill of -55 in our neck of the woods. I’m used to it and find it no bother at all.
One of my brothers lives in Camas. The weather is pretty good except for those times in the winter when very cold air from the east side pours down the Columbia Gorge.
Looks like foreign military to me.
This type of cold weather used to be called “January”
Happy to have a generator.
What’s with this “Chicken Little” weathercasting/reporting? Are we all going to die in the next winter storm? I guess it is true if you are going to take a cold shower and, then, sleep naked outside for a few nights.
Since there is no “global warming” the globalists have to have the weather always in crisis mode implying that “climate change” is a bad thing. Of course, geographers and archeologists and like science professionals know that we are blessed by global warming and cursed by global cooling: all in geologic time frames of course. In the short term those sun spots will save millions of lives with extended food production from minute changes in the growing seasons.
I love that! I have a pal with Samoyeds (Siberians whiter cousins) and they love below zero weather. Throw themselves in the snow upside down and roll.
Buy more toilet paper.
Nothing new. We used to get warnings in the 1950s and 1960s of the “Siberian Express” or “Alberta Clipper” heading our way. Brutal cold!
Chilly 67 this a.m. but 82 this afternoon with pleasant trade winds of 15 - 25 mph...
I remember when they had “soft sleet” in Miami Florida. They just could not say “Snow!” Orange crop was used as juice that year as the fruit froze on the trees.
The elderly are at highest risk.
Been there done that
During the great progressive wave after WWII when Churchill was sacked and Atlea took over....nationalized transport..electricity..water...coal..and hospitals.
Rationing and food stamps lasted into the 50's
77 today here in SW Florida. I’m going to ride my motorcycle inland to Ona, Zolfo Springs and Wahcula to smell the oranges.
Hey, I remember living in Northern Ohio when the snow was all the way up to my belt ... of course I was only six years old then.
I had a Samoyed back in the day.
She was an incredibly friendly dog.
However—they are very rebellious.
When I would say “come” she would run fifty feet away from me and then look back at me. If I said “come” again she would run away another fifty feet and look back at me again.
I finally figured out how to get her to come.
I had to lie down and pretend I was injured. Then she would run to me to make sure I was OK.
Back in the late 70’s - early 80’s, I was feeding horses in -50 windchills in central Indiana. That was climate change you could believe in.
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