Posted on 01/13/2009 3:03:47 PM PST by xcamel
As the week progresses, the East will get blasted with the coldest air of the season so far. In New York City, temperatures could drop below zero for the first time since 1994.
Arctic Air Floods Chicago to New York City
Arctic air bottled up over Alaska is being unleashed over the Midwest and will soon follow into the East. The cold air will spread southeastward in two waves this week. The second surge threatens to be the harshest and farthest reaching.
The first shot of arctic air is already plunging into the northern Plains behind a clipper system bringing blizzard conditions to many locations. The bitterly cold air will spread across the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley and the Deep South on Tuesday and the Northeast on Wednesday.
The second blast of cold will originate farther north in the arctic. It will follow close behind the first, spreading into the northern Plains on Wednesday. On Thursday and Friday, the coldest air of the season will spread across the Midwest and then the East.
Gusty, northwest winds will create dangerously cold AccuWeather AccuWeather.com RealFeel® temperatures with both arctic blasts. Residents of the central and northern Plains got a taste of those winds early Monday, when gusts climbed as high as hurricane force.
RealFeel® temperatures by Tuesday morning will plummet to below minus 30° in the northern Plains, including in Fargo, International Falls and Duluth. This extreme cold poses a serious danger to people and pets. On top of the threat of hypothermia, frostbite could set in in only a matter of minutes.
How cold the air will feel on Monday may pale in comparison to Wednesday's RealFeel® temperatures in the northern Plains, when the second surge of arctic air arrives.
By Thursday, Chicago will have a high within a few degrees of zero and a low temperature below zero.
That second blast of arctic air will hit the East late in the week and could hold the high temperature in the teens in New York City. Temperatures may dip below zero at night, a feat not achieved in the city since Jan. 19, 1994.
In my corner of Califonia it’s 79 degrees, straight up, at 3:06 p.m., sunny, clear blue skies, with a nice on-shore pacific breeze.
One in every crowd...
Looking at that map, we’ll be fine in Texas, too.
It was real gusty a couple days ago here in the bay area, probably just this thing getting setup to freeze the nation on Inauguration day.
I guess Al Gore is scheduled to be there.. and aRnold. eh?
If we could only be treated to sub-zero weather in DC on the 20th!
Makes me think of “Joe Dirt.”
Dogs’ n*ts are freezing to porches all over America tonight.
Better chance of a coastal blizzard...
Rove is working on it.....
Honestly though I’m wondering if we’re going to have a real winter down here. This bouncing back and forth between 22 and 75 is getting tiresome.
Is there any fire and brimstone in the forecast?
AccuWeather should be pretty accurate in another 2-3 days. Last I looked Wash. DC was going to be 40 degrees on the 20th.
Why is it that it never makes the national news when it’s cold here in Minnesota, but when the same cold front that we’ve been suffering under for the last three days hits Chicago, Cleveland, or Philadelphia, suddenly it’s news?
-17, this morning. We got up to about -3, this afternoon. Right now, we’re back down to -6.
Forecast for Wednesday is low of -17, high of 0, Thursday low of -15, high of -2.
The weekend looks balmy - highs of 10 on Friday.
It’s winter, it’s cold. BFD.
My corner of SoCal is warm, clear and just a slight breeze although we did have some Santa Anas the last few days. Gotta check in with the kids in Ohio.
You're welcome Lone Star and Golden Staters!
As long as it lands on D.C. nest Tuesday, I’m happy.
Here just north of Detroit, about 11:00 this morning the temp was 32, its now down to 12 degrees and dropping.........
The “Frostbite Falls” stigma (Yeah, I’ve been to lake of the woods in January)
I'm also going to have my dog out there with me, and I wonder if the dog will feel the same way. My dog certainly does seem to like the cold weather. I've been doing a lot of hiking in the snow with the dog and other than getting ice between it's paws, it seems to like it just fine.
As for it hitting zero in Manhattan, that is quite an achievement because it takes quite a cold shot to get it to zero there. This is because Manhattan is surrounded by relatively warm waters and is basically a "heat island" because there is so much going on there in the way of electricity, heat and automobile exhaust.
Cold weather is also preferable to very hot weather because you can dress for the cold. In the heat, you can get completely naked and still be hot.
I get a feeling that we are about to enter a long stretch of very cold winters.
83 here ... but, to ensure that I don’t feel too smug about that, we have Arnold as our governor.
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