Posted on 12/31/2017 3:01:17 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER
Dangerously cold temperatures will be in place tonight to ring in the new year for many locations located east of the Rocky Mountains. Locations across the Northeast and as far south as Kansas into Ohio will be below zero at midnight with wind chills of -20 to -40 for many of these locations. Therefore, locations from northeastern Montana into portions of the Midwest and Northeast are under a Wind Chill Warning with Wind Chill Advisories in place as far south as the central Gulf Coast through Monday morning. Monday's highs will stay below freezing for much of Texas to the Carolinas which is a good 20 to 30 degrees below average.
Winter weather advisories are currently in effect for western and northern Texas as well as across the lower Mississippi valley where light accumulations of snow and freezing rain could cause slick conditions through Monday morning. Monday evening through Tuesday will be mostly dry across the lower 48 with the exception of rain showers for Florida and snow showers the Great Lakes. Snowfall accumulations downwind of the Great Lakes are expected to be locally heavier across the eastern U.P. of Michigan and east of Lakes Erie and Ontario where additional totals of roughly 6-12 inches are in the forecast through Tuesday evening.
Needless to say, temperatures will remain well below average for most locations east of the Rockies into the middle of the week but some moderation is expected across the central and northern High Plains starting Tuesday with downslope flow developing. The Southwest will remain warm and dry into the middle of the week with temperatures ranging between 5 to 15 degrees above early January normals.
(Excerpt) Read more at wpc.ncep.noaa.gov ...
Sounds like your house is a wonderful place to be! I just love Danes!
The answer is . . , yes!
Hey Folks!
Thanks to everybody for checking in tonight, we got posts from all over the US (and overseas) giving us a pretty good look at the massive cold weather event from all points of view.
God bless you all, and have a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year.
And thank God for President Trump.
MAGA!!
Howdy, future neighbor, if I read your post right—you’re contemplating moving this way?
We’re in Farragut, right on the border with Knoxville, having fled SoCal in 2015. Wonderful community.
Right on—stay safe and warm.
Wishing you and yours a healthy, happy 2018—God Bless—
My cat is not 91 lbs, but is close to a third of that. And I know what you mean about their disgust when it comes time to claim my ‘rightful’ spot in the bed!
Current Kerrville Texas temperature: 28 and dropping ;o)~
Charlie Robison - New Year's Day
Happy New Years!
Having been born and raised in Chicago, moved by my parents to SoCal, and now deliriously happy in East Tennessee, I can assure you, the summer humidity/bug problem in Tennessee is nowhere near as bad as it was in Chicago.
I really should come down and check it out. I have lived in CT,CAL then CT-—I want to go to a Red state—down home good folks, my people. Would really like pleasant weather year round or at least not periods of horrendous weather. I tell ya—living in Marin County is a hard thing to get over weather wise. The goofball whacky liberals-—no.
Amen...and, Happy New Year!
I am a homebody at this point in my life due to recent health “challenges” and just love to chill and groove on my music—but yes. Seriously—who wants to go out?
Its 3 mother effing degrees here now-—
Saw a great poster recently—” At my age, Happy Hour is nap time” LOL—I am gettin’ mellow in my aging years.
11 degrees currently expected 8 for low in west Tennessee.No moisture no precipitation
That artwork is from a Remington shotgun ad from 1967 ;o)~
Very cool. I tell ya—I’m 53 now. I really wish I was ‘of age” during the late 50’s—60’s. Everything was so much better. The music, the social “norms”—seems like a far more pleasant fun time. Of course we must make the best of the situation at hand, improve and enjoy it and “the grass is always greener on the other side” but....
Just seems like it would have been a blast—
22F, feels like 9F with the wind chill in Fort Worth, TX
Glendale, CA: 53° right now
Thanks Jane!
And Happy New Year to you and yours. Hope it’s even better than 2017.
Worked an outdoor New Years concert in Virginia Beach. It was 24 with a wind chill of 12. Meanwhile, the city had a perfectly good indoor venue where they could have had held the concert at. Brrrr...
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