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Minus-56 degrees and more: Brutal cold-air outbreak is smashing records in the Midwest; here are some reports:
Temperatures dove more than 30 degrees below zero Thursday morning in the Midwest in this polar vortex outbreak’s last gasp, driving wind chills to dangerous levels and clobbering long-standing records.
Conditions in northern Minnesota took a nosedive in the early morning hours. The unincorporated community of Cotton measured an actual temperature — not wind chill — of minus-56 degrees. It was four degrees short of Minnesota’s all-time lowest temperature.
Central Pennsylvania weather: Record cold, wind chills from -10 to 5:
SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY, Pa. —
Sunshine is expected in central Pennsylvania's Susquehanna Valley this afternoon, but it's still bitterly cold.
A record cold high temperature could be set this afternoon. The record of 20 degrees was set in 1966, and the WGAL Storm Team is forecasting 16.
https://www.wgal.com/article/central-pennsylvania-weather-record-cold-today/26096618
Ann Arbor breaks 108-year-old cold temperature record:
A century-old record was broken in Ann Arbor on Wednesday.
As a polar vortex drove Arctic air into the Midwest, temperatures plummeted to a record daily low of 13 degrees below zero, and still dropping, by 7 p.m. on Jan. 30 in Ann Arbor, according to the National Weather Service.
The previous daily record, 11 degrees below zero, was set in 1911, according to University of Michigan records.
Madison sets record cold high temperature Wednesday:
While everyone knows we keep records for high and low temperatures, we also keep record for other extremes. One of those is record cold high temperatures in which Madison set a new one on Wednesday. The high temperature only made it to minus 10 degrees and that broke the old record cold high of minus 1 degree set back in 1951!
Record cold stresses furnaces into breakdowns:
INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) – As temperatures plunged below zero outside, some people found the temperature in their homes dropping as well. The dangerous cold puts your furnace under a stress test.
Even with a gas fireplace running and four dogs with fur coats, the Underwoods felt a little chilly Wednesday morning in their home in Sycamore Springs on the northeast side of Indianapolis.
https://www.wthr.com/article/record-cold-stresses-furnaces-breakdowns
Homeless Face Record-Breaking Cold In Parts Of The Nation:
Rachel Martin talks to Debra Gonzalez, founder of the nonprofit organization in Wisconsin, Feeding His Flock Street Ministry, about searching the streets to find homeless people in need of shelter.
Chicago Weather Forecast: More Record-Setting Cold Ahead Of Snow Thursday Night
CHICAGO (CBS) — It’s another day of record-setting cold for Chicago, as Thursday immediately started as the coldest Jan. 31 ever at O’Hare, and kept getting colder.
The temperature was already -18°F when Thursday started, and by shortly before 4 a.m., it was down to -21°F, the coldest it’s ever been on this date. The previous record was -12°F on Jan. 31, 1985.
Thursday also has tied for 10th coldest ever in Chicago, following a day that tied for 5th coldest ever, when temperatures hit -23° on Wednesday.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @05:56AM (22 children)
G L O B A L
W A R M I N G
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @06:09AM
I thought they're calling it "climate change" now to invalidate that argument.
(Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Friday February 01 2019, @06:34AM (6 children)
G L O B A L W A R M I N G [abc.net.au]
There, I said it!
After those two months:
And this is Melbourne, with the long term average summer temperature of 25C-26C. So, yes, global warming.
Tasmania is worse now burning for the last 2 weeks if not longer [news.com.au]. Forest fires used to be rare there: the "historical" most recent one was 1967 [wikipedia.org], then suddenly they have 2013 [wikipedia.org], 2016 [wikipedia.org] and now this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @10:09AM (2 children)
Not very 'global' though, is it?
(Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Friday February 01 2019, @11:23AM
Neither global is the cold weather in US.
Betcha that the end of 2019 will still show a higher annual average temperature over the whole world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @11:24AM
That is exactly his point silly. Its cold in the US, warm in AU. Somewhere in between in Europe at the moment. But GLOBALLY it is going to be yet another too warm year.
(Score: 2, Touché) by shrewdsheep on Friday February 01 2019, @11:29AM (1 child)
Just wait a little while for the average to catch up, problem solved.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday February 01 2019, @11:37AM
Would love to. Seriously. It would mean 50-75 years of life ahead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @05:22AM
As usual the Victorian complains about heat totally forgetting that South Australia is hotter and Adelaide beat the all time record for the hottest capital in Australia.
Typical Victorians clanging their pots and pans, will somebody please think of the poor Victorians! They are only proof that Tasmanians can swim.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @06:40AM (5 children)
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by AthanasiusKircher on Friday February 01 2019, @08:24AM (4 children)
R A N D O M
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(Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @09:37AM (3 children)
BU T
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @10:07AM (2 children)
MYSPACEBARISNOTWORKINGWHILECAPSLOCKISQUITEWELLTHANKYOU.
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Friday February 01 2019, @11:26AM (1 child)
ˢᵗᵒᵖ ˢʰᵒᵘᵗᶦⁿᵍ!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Disagree) by Joe Desertrat on Friday February 01 2019, @11:44PM
STOP SQUEAKING!
(Score: 5, Informative) by HiThere on Friday February 01 2019, @05:23PM (4 children)
OK. Global warming. That doesn't translate into evenly spread global warming, or local warming.
When the jet stream slows down because the arctic is warmer that it used to be, the barriers to arctic air flowing south weaken, causing "polar vortex", i.e. polar air at polar temperature, to spill south. And because the jet stream is slower, this happens over a longer period of time than it did in prior times, and is even more likely to get stuck in place for awhile.
So, yes, global warming can yield colder winter periods in temperate areas. Also hotter summers from a similar, but not quite identical, mechanism. And "can" doesn't mean it will always happen, or that it will happen everywhere. FWIW, here on the west coast the winter locally (I don't know the extended region) has been unusually mild. But the summer wasn't very nice.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by julian on Friday February 01 2019, @07:30PM (3 children)
I commend you for tirelessly making this rebuttal. Most of the people advancing the argument you're addressing are not acting in good faith. They know their reasoning is fallacious and not even superficially plausible to an educated person--they don't care. It's some combination of trolling, disinterest, nihilism, and cynical self-interest that compels them to spread this nonsense.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @07:35PM (2 children)
When summer rolls around, and the stories are about how warm it is, will you attribute it to the same factors?
(Score: 2) by julian on Friday February 01 2019, @09:09PM (1 child)
If they’re making the same uninformed point *against* global warming, certainly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @09:27PM
What do you mean by "against"? It is fine to take warm weather as evidence for global warming but not cold weather?
(Score: 2) by istartedi on Friday February 01 2019, @07:18PM (2 children)
Average(20 20 20 20 20)=20.
Average(21 1 41 21 21)=21.
Appended to the end of comments you post. Max: 120 chars.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @07:24PM (1 child)
mean(c(21, 1, 41, 21, 21)^2) = 601
mean(c(21, 1, 41, 21, 21))^2 = 441
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @07:31PM
As the values become more uniform, the two results converge:
mean(c(20, 20, 20, 20, 20))^2 = 400
mean(c(20, 20, 20, 20, 20)^2) = 400
Of relevance here, temperature scales with the 4th root of radiative power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%E2%80%93Boltzmann_law [wikipedia.org]