Dallas Texas was 80 degrees Fahrenheit yesterday and it will be 26 degrees Fahrenheit tonight. And double digits below zero this morning across Urah, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska etc. And if you have ever been in below zero temperatures even breathing outside can be real problem as your breath sometimes cracks and freezes coming out of your mouth and when you breathe into your lungs. I'm starting as a Calfornian to get a little concerned even when it gets into the 20s because sometimes my lungs start to hurt when I breathe. Likely you must take very shallow breaths that are preheated with some sort of parka or hold your breath when out in below zero temperatures very long. So, if you get stuck in your car below zero it can quickly become fatal unless you stay with your car with it running with the heater on. So, be very careful out there everyone. Even I went out and wrapped all my water pipes extending out past the edge of my house already today so I don't lose a water pipe from freezing or my water heater if it drained from a pipe exploding during the night when I was asleep. (sometimes they siphon out when a pipe breaks). Needless to say our pipes aren't wrapped where I live in California because we just usually don't get temperatures into the 20s even at night like we are these days likely for the next week or so.
I'm sort of wondering whether this isn't the same effect (if it lasts more than a week or so) that happened a year or so ago when it snowed in Rome and Israel and throughout the Middle east for several weeks and many people died in Eastern Europe because of the extreme cold. At that time the arctic cold sort of slipped off the north pole and arctic regions because of too much melting ice. This could be another such effect only in Canada and the U.S. this time. I'm also wondering if one of these things could ever stay long enough to create an ice age as the weather keeps shifting like it is now through Global Climate Change.
California is worried about losing most of it's orange crop because this is coming at the worst time possible for oranges in California.
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