Posted on 02/21/2015 7:02:33 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine
Additional rounds of frigid air will continue to drill the eastern United States into the end of February, riding on the heels of bursts of record-breaking low temperatures.
By way of Siberia, additional waves of cold air will continue to roll into the Eastern states. This cross-polar flow, as it is called, travels thousands of miles across the North Pole, over frozen tundra, seas of ice and/or snow cover. As a result, the frigid air experiences little moderation until it reaches the southern U.S.
According to AccuWeather.com Chief Meteorologist Elliot Abrams, "In some cases the cold has been rivaling that of low temperature marks set during the winters of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s."
"Washington, D.C., had their first winter month record low temperature since 1994," Abrams said.
Daily records dating back to the 1800s were broken in multiple cities Thursday into Friday from the Midwest to the East.
According to AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Joe Lundberg, "Some locations in the Northeast are challenging their coldest February on record."
More waves of arctic air are coming.
"Two more big blasts of frigid air will move in through the end of the month," Lundberg said.
The first cold wave will sweep in behind the storm spreading wintry precipitation along an 1,800-mile swath this weekend. The first new wave of cold air will spread from the northern Plains on Saturday to the Midwest on Sunday, then the East by Monday.
A second wave of cold air is forecast to drop southeastward from Canada during the middle and latter part of the week.
While the cold waves will not be quite as extreme as that already experienced this month, they will prolong winter or delay spring weather, depending on your perspective.
"Temperatures will average 20-30 degrees below normal over a huge area from the southern Plains to New England during the first blast and then 10-20 degrees below normal over a similar area during the second blast," Lundberg said.
The first week or so of March will trend less cold, but temperatures may still average slightly below normal in part of the Midwest and much of the East.
Someone smack me aside the head if I ever complain about black flies or skeeters. :-)
Wow...sea levels were 450 feet below today’s level,in the last ice age. That’s a LOT of water removed from the oceans and deposited on land.
Thanks Jack Hydrazine. Has anybody discovered where all the prehistoric SUVs are buried yet? Maybe we could get a grant. :>} Looks like somebody CAN fool a lot of the people a lot of the time.
That’s a lot of water removed from the evaporation cycle leading to drought in many areas with no glaciation, also.
Krakatoa volcano in 1883 was followed by a series of very bad winters worldwide. Local records are hit and miss. Accuweather is retarded.
The edge of the continental shelves is where sea level used to be.
Sea level was about 20 to 30 feet higher some 9,000 years ago when global warming topped out. Since then it has been cooling slowly. Don’t tell the Warmunistas that!
Geology was a required course in 8th grade in upstate NY 50 years ago. We took a number of field trips to see glacial striations on rock outcrops as well as the glacial terminal moraine at the end of Cayuga Lake. I still remember being impressed by that and the fact that there used to be a MILE thick ice sheet right on the spot we were standing. When you think about it, 11,000 years ago really isn’t that long ago.
This is what we used to call “a cold winter.”
Maybe in a year or so, we’ll have what we used to call “a warm winter.”
That’s how weather / climate work.
Simple
The problem in Va with the arctic air is that when it moves out in March the warm humid air will move in right away. We will go from heating to A/C in one day. Happened last year, I turned the heat off and the A/C was running the next day. It will oscillate like that and spring will be truncated.
Going straight from cold to a major influx of warm, humid Gulf air is a recipe for some rough spring storms, imho.
I grew up in southern New York and had a similar revelation as a boy standing on the top of Bear Mountain (near the Hudson River). Everything you can see from that high point, including New York City 40 miles away, was covered by an ice sheet thousands of feet thick just a few thousand years ago.
If more of the low information types were taught this in school there would be no concern about the small variations in climate over the last 30 years.
Exactly.
Here in central Virginia, weather records have been kept since the 1800s. For the past four days and nights, we've set new records for cold...I think eleven below zero was the coldest during the period.
You’re exactly right. Kids don’t get that type of education any more...and we are paying a dear price for it.
My usual start to golfing here in NE Mass on St. Patrick’s Day is not looking too promising....
2/20/2015 Paducah, KY Ice Storm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osf-XgOsXDs
Heavy Snow Blankets Jerusalem – Video
This video shows Jerusalem blanketed in thick snow early on the morning of Friday, February 20.
http://iceagenow.info/2015/02/heavy-snow-blankets-jerusalem-video/
Snow covered much of Israel, Jordan and Lebanon early on Friday and compelled residents to stay homes due to blocked roads and ice.
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20150220/1018542195.html
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