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Winter winds brought extreme cold and ice-slicked roads to the Midwestern and Eastern United States on Monday, with the U.S. Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday and an ongoing government shutdown allowing many to heed official advice to stay indoors.
[...] “This is definitely dangerous, life-and-death kind of weather happening,” Chenard said. “Minnesota and Wisconsin will see temperatures in the negative 20s.”
“Boston will be just 3 degrees (Fahrenheit) this morning, with wind chills of minus 12 or more,” he said. “New York City and D.C. will be in that same range, maybe hitting the teens later today. It’ll be record or near-record cold.”
The NWS [(National Weather Service)] issued wind-chill advisories and warnings for more than 10 states, from North Dakota and to East Coast metropolitan centers.
Severe winter weather will be hitting Chicago over the next week, bringing “dangerous cold” with below zero temperatures before the wind chill, according to the National Weather Service.
An arctic front is expected to hit the area Thursday, with another following next week, dropping the wind chill as low as 30 degrees below zero. The Chicagoland area may even break records for cold temperatures in January, though it’s too early to predict the exact numbers, according to the weather service.
The first wave of “dangerous cold” is expected Thursday night into Friday morning, according to meteorologist Gino Izzi.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/dangerous-cold-to-blast-through-chicago-this-week/
(Score: 5, Informative) by FatPhil on Friday January 25 2019, @10:25AM (9 children)
I suspect the failstream media was intending to push the "look how cold it is, global warming ain't real", narrative, and, if so, yet again they have failed, in several ways.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday January 25 2019, @12:35PM
There is a cooling and there is a heating, and I mean, look, it used to not be Climate Change. It used to be Global Warming. That wasn’t working too well, because it was getting too cold all over the place.
(Score: 1) by oldeschool on Friday January 25 2019, @01:19PM (7 children)
If you are referring to Chicago, Weather.com contradicts this statement, the -3 was record low in 1963, average is 32F
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday January 25 2019, @01:44PM (3 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1) by oldeschool on Friday January 25 2019, @01:56PM (2 children)
"according to wikipedia" Wikipedia articles are written by volunteers -- if I had to choose between weather.com or some guy posting information on Wikipedia, I'll go with weather.com
Serious question, no trolling, do Wikipedia articles go through fact checks and vetting?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @02:43PM
Oh yeah, a very extensive fact check actually. They have around 8 billion real-time reviewers in 2019.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 26 2019, @02:49PM
I'm not especially trusting of weather.com. Try weather.gov - https://www.weather.gov/lot/January_Daily_Records_Chicago [weather.gov] Record low temps for January include -27 in 1985, -26 in 1984, -20 in 1897 - the list goes on. The same chart shows record highs for January - which has been +65 on a number of days, in different years. And, snowfall - looks like Jan 2 1999 they got 18.6 inches in one day.
IMO, weather.com likes to sensationalize the weather. Their integrity suffers for it.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Friday January 25 2019, @02:25PM (2 children)
I went to college and grad school in Chicago, and lived there for a couple years afterward. I find it very hard to believe the average January temperature is 32F. It was much colder, with the wind off Lake Michigan making it much worse.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday January 25 2019, @02:40PM
There is a demographic of people in Chicongo who don't like water, whether it is swimming in it or having frozen droplets sprinkled on them. May Jesus Christ have mercy on their souls.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday January 25 2019, @08:10PM
It's an average, and it's the absolute temp, not counting the windchill.
The City adds quite a few degrees, and ORD temps are lower too.
But this is not news. The two weeks including the end of Jan and start of Feb are typically the time of the cold wave in Chicago. Temps below freezing for a week or more, with excursions below 0F that can last 3 days... That's normal winter, and it's gonna take a lot more global warming before it goes away.