Coldest January Since 1985 Could be Taking Shape

AccuWeather.com ^ | Jan 7, 2011

[MinorityRepublican]

For people who hate cold weather, the forecast for the next couple of weeks is bad news. Waves of frigid air invading the U.S. will become progressively colder and more widespread, with the worst coming in the third week of January.

Many people in the East will get a slight taste of the colder air this weekend before more substantial cold takes hold from coast to coast next week.

This upcoming cold weather pattern could yield snow or ice in places that don't often get it. Seattle, Wash., Portland, Ore., Dallas, Texas, Memphis, Tenn., and Charlotte, N.C., are all in the running for possible snow or ice next week.

How widespread the cold air is across the U.S. through mid- to late month could make this the coldest January for the nation as a whole since 1985, according to AccuWeather.com Chief Long Range Forecaster Joe Bastardi.

[FreeReign]

[Free Vulcan]

I was in Chicago at that time. It was -25 that day. I had to walk to work 15 blocks. Did it in 15 minutes, didn’t run into one panhandler.

[PA-RIVER]

Where is Algore during this calamity?

The Caribbean?

[bIlluminati]

I've learned the locals don't consider it truly cold till it hits forty below.

"Is that 40 below Fahrenheit or Celsius?" "Kelvin", he bellowed."

[wastedyears]

I was born in October 85 in NYC and wasn’t told about the weather that year. However, I do remember the blizzard of ‘96, crawling over snow dunes.

[PA-RIVER]

What kind of car?

[LomanBill]

1985 Oh I remember that... but probably not as much as the local police who were sent out looking for myself and a football team-mate, when we thought it would be fun to go snow camping along the abandoned railroad tracks near the college.

The wind chill was 100 below in Eastern Nebraska that night. Not unlike the winter conditions above the treeline in Colorado. Where I’d been, and survived just fine, before.

Behind a tree-belt windbreak, with double sleeping bags and a Northface tent designed for the Himalayas - we were adequately warm. But boiling hot coco was cold in the time it took to take it off the stove, stir it in the metal cup, and drink it.

We could hear a siren on and off through the night - and had no idea they were looking for us until the next morning when we wandered into the campus cafeteria and were scolded for “Endangering” ourselves.

It’s a fun story to tell - and one my wife, who I met two years earlier at the same school, is still happy to shake her head and confirm: “Oh yes, he actually did that - he was just as craz...err.. Adventurous, back then”. ;-}

[rustbucket]

Well, dadgum!

I’ve been harvesting a handful of cherry tomatoes every other day for the last month here in Texas, but it looks like it will come to an end with this upcoming cold blast. My spring 2010 cherry tomato plant is still producing as is my fall cherry tomato plant.

[PA-RIVER]

On cold years, At night, it gets aroud 15 below zero in January and then the rivers in PA Freez. The Canadian geese scream all night long trying to generate heat. Its hard to sleep listening to them scream.

Those poor geese. Where is Algore when we need him?

[PA-RIVER]

A friend of mine lived in Chicago. In January, His family used to sleep all together in one room next to the fireplace.

Then Algores Global warming came and they opened a swimming pool and sold cold drinks in January.

[Fractal Trader]

ping

[kempster]

We were in the high 80’s today up here in the Detoit area.

[DTogo]

January ‘85... UCSB... probably biking to Lucky’s in shorts to buy more Meister Brau...

[Ladysmith]

I remember it well, too. My car froze up in -20+ degree weather so I walked back and forth to work (20 minute FAST walk!) I NEVER lost weight so easily as I did in those couple weeks.

[kempster]

Kidding!

[Red Steel]

He is in Jakarta, Indonesia warm and toasty.

Al Gore give a 10 minute speech at the Climate Project
Asia-Pacific Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Jan 9.

[wyokostur]

“The days grow longer..the cold grows stronger.” Got that from one of the Little House series..Farmer Boy I think. Still holds true today. Supposed to be -10 for the next couple of nights here in southeastern Wy.

[ReneeLynn]

Ha, I pretty much guessed THAT! Oh, the cold of global warming!

[Marine_Uncle]

Thanks for the post. This is one for Ernie. He has posted so diligently on this subject over time.
Drat it. I used to love the snow. Many many years of skiing in Vermont, PA, elsewhere and of course the wild west... 25 below at Jackson Hole, Wyoming way back when.
Now at 64 all I have to look forward to is shoveling snow. So be it. We are in a hopefully only gradual global warming cycle. Poor Al Gore of course will be spared. He can always move to warmer climates as the cold settles down into his current residencies. Well perhaps not his Pacific estate. Of course he would then move to Fiji or Guam etc..
With our money from carbon taxes in his filthy pockets.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Our rapidly warming world...