Season's First Arctic Blast Brings Subzero Temperatures to Plains
As global warming increases and increases in the oceans and air and the land gets colder from too much cloud cover the fluke of an ice age emerges more and more as a real possibility. Imagine right now for example, if 10 to 20 inches of rain came down from Canada all the way down to Texas and Georgia while confronting this Polar vortex drop. How would the country cope with 10 to 20 feet of snow? And what if the cloud cover didn't allow it to melt?
This is the fluke that is growing more likely every year during a polar vortex drop that could lead to an actual ice age from the Sierras and Cascades all the way across the country to the Atlantic.
When you have enough snow on the ground it creates it's own weather the cold snow refrigerates the air so instead of rain falling snow falls, then as snow hits snow already on the ground it doesn't melt and the depth of the snow grows and grows as a direct result.
So, this is the fluke that could become a reality in this century or the next here in the U.S. if the right conditions collide at the exactly right moment.
Season's First Arctic Blast Brings Subzero Temperatures to Plains
byAlexander Smith
Dreaded 'Polar Vortex' To Make Return To Country's Midsection0:59
The first arctic blast of the season has hit —
blanketing parts of the Rockies and Plains with subzero temperatures
early Thursday and heralding a bitter freeze that will affect more than
200 million people.
But meteorologists are warning about a second,
perhaps even colder chill that could spread into the East Coast and
possibly portions of the South late next week. A shift in a weather
system known as the Polar Vortex may be partially to blame, according to The Weather Channel.
For now, parts of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and
the Dakotas were bearing the worst of it, with temperatures as low as
minus-14 overnight Wednesday. Heavy snow was also falling around the
Great Lakes region, and parts of Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania and New
York could see up to 2 feet of snow.
By Friday night, the frigid air was expected to
have swept most of the U.S. with temperatures in the 20s from
Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Buffalo, New York, and from Atlanta to
Seattle.
New York, Washington, D.C., and Boston were also expected to flirt with freezing temperatures late Friday.
"It's going to be a shock," said Kevin Roth,
senior meteorologist at The Weather Channel. "The fall was closest to
the warmest on record so this is really back to reality."
Although much less certain, a second wallop
could be on its way late next week. After a brief reprieve following the
weekend, temperatures could plunge into the minus next Friday in
Midwestern cities such as Chicago and Minneapolis, into the teens across
the North East and possibly back into the 20s in the South.
According to Roth, temperatures are expected to
drop because of a shift in a stratospheric weather system known as the
Polar Vortex.
What's All of This Talk About the Polar Vortex?1:29
This is usually based around the polar regions
but sometimes affects temperatures further south if it becomes weakened
or distorted. To what extent this actually happens will affect which
regions are plunged into unseasonable cold temperatures next week.
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