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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @10:24AM (5 children)
Meanwhile the chinese are building "ghost cities" all along their coasts and throughout africa to handle all the climate refuges they expect from inland and the north. Historically, chinese dynasties are overthrown during grand solar minima, so they are acutely aware of where famine strikes and the land becomes too dry or cold to live.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by kazzie on Friday February 01 2019, @11:30AM (2 children)
Building "ghost cities" along their coasts sounds counter-intuitive to me: I'd expect them to plan to move people away from there due to rising sea levels.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @11:53AM
They are preparing for a different climate change than you are thinking of, the colder temperatures that have accompanied the grand solar minima in the past.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by deimtee on Friday February 01 2019, @11:55AM
Depends on the coast really. There are plenty of places where the land rises fairly steeply. Not saying I know anything about where the chinese are building cities, but just being close to the ocean doesn't necessarily mean you will go under if the water rises.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday February 01 2019, @02:27PM (1 child)
Utter nonsense. They're building ghost cities for the same reason that others build infrastructure to nowhere. Because they got ahold of other peoples' money and came up with an excuse to spend it. Further, I doubt "climate refugees" have anything to do with the climate. After all, the "inland and the north" wherever that might be, is not going to be much different over the course of a human lifespan. And if they're planning that far ahead, why not build the "ghost city" in 50 to 100 years when they might actually need it rather than now when it's just going to go to rubble by that time?
And you know when "grand solar minima" occur historically because?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @02:40PM
https://electroverse.net/grand-solar-minimums-and-the-fall-of-empires-a-great-crash-looms/ [electroverse.net]