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posted by martyb on Friday February 01 2019, @05:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the cold-comfort dept.

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.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/01/31/brutal-cold-outbreak-is-breaking-records-midwest-thursday-morning/

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.

https://www.mlive.com/news/2019/01/ann-arbor-passes-108-year-old-mark-for-the-coldest-jan-30-on-record.html

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!

https://www.nbc15.com/content/news/Madison-sets-record-cold-high-temperature-Wednesday-505106971.html

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.

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690230681/homeless-face-record-breaking-cold-in-large-parts-of-the-nation

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.

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/01/31/extreme-cold-record-setting-temperatures-deep-freeze-chicago-weather-snow/


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by bradley13 on Friday February 01 2019, @06:59AM (9 children)

    by bradley13 (3053) on Friday February 01 2019, @06:59AM (#794910) Homepage Journal

    You can laugh at this two ways. One the one hand, we have the news blathering about how this has never, ever happened before. This despite the fact that it happens about one winter in three, and despite the fact that the -56 was "four degrees short of Minnesota’s all-time lowest temperature" - so not a record at all.

    On the other hand, it did set cold records in some places. Whereas there hasn't been a single high-temperature record set in the US since 1995 [infoplease.com]. Which is just fascinating, since this is supposed to be driven by global warming.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by MostCynical on Friday February 01 2019, @07:16AM (4 children)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Friday February 01 2019, @07:16AM (#794916) Journal

    So, no record maxima, but increasing averages [hamiltonproject.org] should have you worried.

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    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday February 01 2019, @07:23AM (3 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday February 01 2019, @07:23AM (#794921) Journal

      This is a problem of philosophy (or politics) with bradley13, not science. The data don't fit his worldview, so they are ipso facto false and/or falsified. I have no idea what to do about people like this, or at least no ideas that don't involve a wood chipper.

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      • (Score: 5, Funny) by coolgopher on Friday February 01 2019, @07:45AM (2 children)

        by coolgopher (1157) on Friday February 01 2019, @07:45AM (#794930)

        I have no idea what to do about people like this

        B ark.

        • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @11:35AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @11:35AM (#794981)

          W oof!

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @08:27PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @08:27PM (#795170)

          You know, I don't remember hearing from A ark or C ark lately?

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @07:45AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @07:45AM (#794931)

    Which is just fascinating, since this is supposed to be driven by global warming.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @01:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @01:06PM (#795007)

    In the 2000s or 2010s, Georgia, South Carolina and South Dakota matched records that had been set earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state_temperature_extremes [wikipedia.org]

  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Friday February 01 2019, @07:56PM

    by MostCynical (2589) on Friday February 01 2019, @07:56PM (#795158) Journal

    also lots of records elsewhere [smh.com.au]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @08:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @08:36PM (#795173)

    The data in the list misleading.
    1) The data is listed state wide. I live in California, we have Death Valley. You can set thousands of local heat records and never beat the highs from Death Valley.
    2) Some meteorologists dispute the accuracy of these early records.
    3) Many records have been set for weekly or monthly average highs
    4) The USA is not the world. Talk to some folks from Australia about high temps.