It's going to stay damn cold. What is up with the weather?

[KevinNYC]

It hit 50 degrees today in Alaska, meanwhile most of the US is freezing. My ferry in NYC was delayed today because the river is freezing.

Warm Weather is shooting up the West Coast while cold air is diving back down across the midwest and northeast.

http://i.imwx.com/images/maps/forecast/lo5_440x297.jpg

Also Hawaii got 50 foot waves today. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH4IFZrpVJA#t=14)


Supposedly this might happen more often due to global warming. As the Arctic warms, the temperature difference between it and the mid latitudes decreases which leads to a greater likelihood we get these crazy dips of Arctic air. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/01/23/the-polar-vortex-explained-in-two-minutes/)

Last Week the weather station 5,000 feet up Mount Rainier (http://www.komonews.com/weather/blogs/scott/Monster-inversion-Mt-Rainier-station-warmer-than-Las-Vegas-240934381.html)was warmer than Las Vegas.

[imdaman99]

RIP Global Warming

[knickballer]

Cold Weather in January?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-l4nq-K82Kqo/Tz5OLnwW8hI/AAAAAAAAAyg/vVZ3SaAyIJc/s1600/wee-bey-gif.gif

[B-Low]

Currently a toasty 4 degrees in Cleveland. Might even open my window up tonight

[imdaman99]

Currently a toasty 4 degrees in Cleveland. Might even open my window up tonight
I might go skinny dipping tomorrow in Central Park because it's warming up to 19 degrees. You with me? :rockon:

[gts]

Currently a toasty 4 degrees in Cleveland. Might even open my window up tonight
I feel for you folks back east, we're in full drought mode in Los Angeles but on the flip side the weather's awesome

I have friends that moved from L.A. to New Hampshire last fall... Last two weeks everyday he sends me a text that says "Fu*k You!"

[B-Low]

I might go skinny dipping tomorrow in Central Park because it's warming up to 19 degrees. You with me? :rockon:

hellz yeah.

It's funny when it hit 40 degrees last week people were getting their cars washed, going to the park etc. It was like Memorial Day weekend :oldlol:

[KevinNYC]

Cold Weather in January?


Um, 50 degrees in Alaska in January is damn warm.

Tuesday and Wednesday next week are going to be rough.


Once again, the Midwest, Northeast and the South will experience frigid temperatures.

By Monday and Tuesday, many cities in these regions will see temperatures 15 to 30 degrees below average, right during the climatologically coldest time of year.

[KevinNYC]

hellz yeah.

It's funny when it hit 40 degrees last week people were getting their cars washed, going to the park etc. It was like Memorial Day weekend :oldlol:

Yeah, it hit 58 degrees like two weeks ago NYC. Tuesday is expected to be like 3 degrees overnight.

[sunsfan1357]

It's been 60-70 degrees and sunny the past couple days around here

[KevinNYC]

Supposedly this might happen more often due to global warming. As the Arctic warms, the temperature difference between it and the mid latitudes decreases which leads to a greater likelihood we get these crazy dips of Arctic air. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/01/23/the-polar-vortex-explained-in-two-minutes/)

This is the dip I was talking about. It dips over the US, but first there's a rise over the Pacific. The warm pacific air goes crazy high and then cold air rushes back down over the center of North America.

http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/myeasternshoremd.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/80/8808e543-2f48-5a46-b21f-6ce49a6eef1d/52e06fbb8ac83.image.jpg

[RightToCensor]

I didn't have school the entire week.

I need to physically interact with someone! :mad:

[B-Low]

Our next few days

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/822/8fnv.jpg

[KevinNYC]

It's been 60-70 degrees and sunny the past couple days around here

What's a normal San Diego January like?


Also Propane supplies are getting dangerously low in some states. Ugh.

[Jameerthefear]

What's a normal San Diego January like?


Also Propane supplies are getting dangerously low in some states. Ugh.
yeah our state (Alabama) just issued a state of emergency because of the propane shortage.

[B-Low]

What's a normal San Diego January like?


Also Propane supplies are getting dangerously low in some states. Ugh.

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/TwrPqx-UvfU/hqdefault.jpg

[KevinNYC]

This graphic scares me

http://vortex.accuweather.com/adc2004/pub/includes/columns/newsstory/2014/650x366_01231751_hd20.jpg

Hold me, MachoMan, hold me.

[KevinNYC]

Meanwhile here's what the crazy jet stream is doing in Hawaii.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BepMCAQCQAEFQd7.jpg

[gts]

What's a normal San Diego January like?


Also Propane supplies are getting dangerously low in some states. Ugh.

Sand Diego is kind of the same year round... 75 degrees sunny sums it up.

I'm exaggerating of course but it is a very moderate climate, there's like a 10 degree change from summer to winter

[mr.big35]

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/TwrPqx-UvfU/hqdefault.jpg
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fkingofthehill.wikia.com%2Fw iki%2FStrickland_Propane&h=0&w=0&sz=1&tbnid=r7U_vyx8nI8h-M&tbnh=194&tbnw=259&zoom=1&docid=MzRAU5TUNC3SnM&hl=en&ei=n-3hUsunEeScyQHn1IDACw&ved=0CAIQsCUoAA

[PHX_Phan]

Of course it stays away from Arizona. I want it to stay cold here. It's been A/C weather this last week :(

[Dresta]

OMG it's all down to global warming! OP's answer to all questions to do with the weather apparently.

Unusual weather? Oh well i guess it MUST be caused by global warming then.

[Patrick Chewing]

http://jacobfilmlit.wikispaces.com/file/view/DayAfterTomorrow1.jpg/135456541/576x315/DayAfterTomorrow1.jpg

[RightToCensor]

WE GON DIE!:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[sunsfan1357]

What's a normal San Diego January like?


Also Propane supplies are getting dangerously low in some states. Ugh.

I'm in the Stockton area now, usually get a bunch of rain around this time but I can't remember the last time we actually did get any.

[KevinNYC]

OMG it's all down to global warming! OP's answer to all questions to do with the weather apparently.

I didn't answer anything. I paraphrased the link (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/01/23/the-polar-vortex-explained-in-two-minutes/)I provided.

[Dresta]

Dunno bro, you always seem to be making threads about some weather event and then linking it to global warming. Don't think we understand this kind of thing that well personally.

[KevinNYC]

I definitely believe in anthropogenic global warming.

How the globe adopts to that is something I think we don't fully understand yet.

[LeGOAT]

I know It didn't get above 70 today in Miami. The low was 40 last night. I almost had to turn the heater on for a bit

[BrownEye007]

Of course it stays away from Arizona. I want it to stay cold here. It's been A/C weather this last week :(
boo****inhoo

[KevinNYC]

Those crazy waves that hit Hawaii are now at California and the surf community is psyched.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/sports&id=9405348


Possible record-breaking waves expected at Mavericks

Twenty-four of the world's best surfers will compete Friday in the Body Glove Mavericks Invitational. And while surfers normally thrive on the big waves, conditions this year are making some surfers nervous.

Waves the surfers saw Thursday are nothing compared with what they expect Friday. They may be the biggest waves ever, possibly 50-feet-tall.

"I don't think you'll ever hear one of the boys that are invited admit that it's too big," Mel said. "But I'll tell you from my experience out there, a lot of experience, this is going to be a big swell."

http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site568/2014/0123/20140123_111026_0124mavericks.jpg

[CelticBaller]

This is the dip I was talking about. It dips over the US, but first there's a rise over the Pacific. The warm pacific air goes crazy high and then cold air rushes back down over the center of North America.

http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/myeasternshoremd.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/80/8808e543-2f48-5a46-b21f-6ce49a6eef1d/52e06fbb8ac83.image.jpg
god help us

[ace23]

Classes cancelled here for ice on roads. Below freezing temps. Cold for Houston.

[KevinNYC]

Baton Rouge Louisiana
http://imgick.nola.com/home/nola-media/pgmain/img/photogallery/photo/fbfe6f566cbe60582c1f8ecf7e32133c.JPG

[STATUTORY]

Proves global warming a joke liberal sham


- your fellow conservative

[mlh1981]

It's 56 right now here in St. Pete, which certainly isn't cold, but it's pretty far below normal, and it was in the low 40s this morning. It sends everyone into a tizzy.

[boozehound]

RIP Global Warming
gotta love the idiots of the world. A few cold days (actually in line with the last century) are all it takes to dismiss the measurable difference in atmospheric composition directly due to our activities associated with releasing carbon trapped in carbon sinks back into the active carbon cycle. http://xkcd.com/1321/

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cold.png

[boozehound]

and, its actually been quite nice over here in utah

[boozehound]

Dunno bro, you always seem to be making threads about some weather event and then linking it to global warming. Don't think we understand this kind of thing that well personally.
"We" actually do know quite a bit about how ACC associated with fossil fuel consumption impacts the major circulatory systems of the atmosphere.
http://climatestate.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Polar-Vortex-Jet-Stream.jpg
http://climatestate.com/2014/01/05/polar-vortex-jet-stream-and-climate-change/
http://www.climatecentral.org/gallery/graphics/climate-change-the-jet-stream
http://ossfoundation.us/projects/environment/global-warming/latitudinal-shift
http://climatenexus.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/jetstream.pdf

[KevinNYC]

It's 56 right now here in St. Pete, which certainly isn't cold, but it's pretty far below normal, and it was in the low 40s this morning. It sends everyone into a tizzy.


Sick of the cold? Head for Alaska, where some towns Thursday morning were warmer than in Florida.


The weather seems more than a bit upside down.

The average temperature for the Lower 48 states midmorning Wednesday was a chilly 22 degrees. The average temperature for the entire state of Alaska at the same time was 24 degrees, according to calculations by Weather Bell Analytics meteorologist Ryan Maue.

Parts of Alaska were 30 degrees warmer than normal, southeastern Alaska hit 57 earlier in the week and the forecast for the rest of week was more unseasonable warmth, said National Weather Service climate science manager Rick Thoman in Fairbanks. He said it's possible that the state record January high of 62 could be broken later this week.

[KevinNYC]

http://vortex.accuweather.com/adc2004/pub/includes/columns/newsstory/2014/650x366_01270319_hd20.jpg


Next Polar Plunge Could Be Winter's Coldest

The next blast of brutal cold will grip most of the eastern two-thirds of the United States early this week and could yield the lowest temperatures so far this winter in many communities.
While harsh cold is returning to the Midwest and Northeast this weekend, it will pale in comparison to what will follow for Monday through Wednesday.
The impending polar plunge will rival the frigid days from earlier this January for the coldest daytime highs and nighttime lows so far this winter. This does not include South Florida.
The arctic air is first plunging into the Upper Midwest, northern Plains and northern Rockies this Sunday, then will continue pressing to the south and east through Tuesday.

They are expecting snow in New Orleans

[gigantes]

there was a really cool mural put up this past summer opposite the grocery store. unfortunately they didn't spray paint it, but silked it on to a plexiglass pieces... maybe 50 feet long in all... then attached that to the brick.

arctic chill came along two weeks ago and laughed at that redfoo... cracking it to pieces and asking which mofo was next to bat. city council barely made a peep this time.


remember, gang: politicians are never heroes, especially when they rely on plexiglass.

[macmac]

It's routinely under 0degrees Fahrenheit here in Montreal, Id say at least 66% of the time. Pretty wack I feel like I'm wasting my life when every day is so cold you don't even want to leave your house,I swear every year half a year is just wasted waiting for summer, I'm sick of this bs.

This has been the coldest winter I can recall

[Vienceslav]

gotta love the idiots of the world. A few cold days (actually in line with the last century) are all it takes to dismiss the measurable difference in atmospheric composition directly due to our activities associated with releasing carbon trapped in carbon sinks back into the active carbon cycle. http://xkcd.com/1321/

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cold.png
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xcoXgL0mAc:applause:

[RedBlackAttack]

Shittttt...

NYC is having a virtual heat wave compared to what's happening in NE Ohio. Going to be -7 in a few hours. :facepalm

Btw, for all the climate change deniers out there...

[QUOTE]Is The Record Cold Arctic Outbreak Tied To Global Warming?

Can extreme weather events like this weekend's historic outbreak of cold Arctic air across the U.S. be caused by the warming of the Arctic?

Though it seems counterintuitive

[Vienceslav]

http://www.weather.com/news/science/environment/arctic-blast-linked-global-warming-20140106
Isn't that the plot of Day After Tomorrow?

[RedBlackAttack]

Isn't that the plot of Day After Tomorrow?
Pretty much. Quick, we need to get Dennis Quaid to a safe place.

[gigantes]

Shittttt...

NYC is having a virtual heat wave compared to what's happening in NE Ohio. Going to be -7 in a few hours. :facepalm
really? my app only has CLE getting close to zero around 7AM on tuesday.

[Lebron23]

http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/global-warming-al-gore.jpg

[rufuspaul]

It's been damn cold in Charlotte but we haven't had a decent snow in 10 years. The system coming in on Tuesday is supposed to bring snow to the eastern part of the state but stop before getting here. It's like there's a snow force field around us. :(

[D-FENS]

We had -40 C the other day with windchill - when it gets that low, -40 C is equal to -40 F. Crazy

[KevinNYC]

It's been damn cold in Charlotte but we haven't had a decent snow in 10 years. The system coming in on Tuesday is supposed to bring snow to the eastern part of the state but stop before getting here. It's like there's a snow force field around us. :(
http://vortex.accuweather.com/adc2004/pub/includes/columns/newsstory/2014/650x366_01281528_hd28.jpg

[Jailblazers7]

The intensity of the cold is pretty crazy. The chill goes straight to your bones and takes a while to wear off once you get in doors. Definitely the coldest winter events I have ever experienced living in Pittsburgh.

[nightprowler10]

-15 F here today. I'm not even gonna look at the windchill.

My new boss literally decided this month that he's sick of the weather and will be taking his talents down to South Beach in a few years.

[macmac]

Retire to a tropical island with me. I'll eat chicken for your amusement.

Bring your macho man early 90s hot pink costume and Jurassic Parc on VHS and it's a done deal

[Budadiiii]

Bring your macho man early 90s hot pink costume and Jurassic Parc on VHS and it's a done deal
Got your Iphone ready to record you pissing away 1k?

:applause:

[macmac]

Got your Iphone ready to record you pissing away 1k?

:applause:

630pm, anyways it wouldn't be the first time I pissed away 1k, literally if you count some of my stupid clubbing nights

[rufuspaul]

Just started snowing in Charlotte. People are freaking out like they're the last Jedi on Hoth.

[Bush4Ever]

I am in Minnesota. It has ranged from -35ish to -45ish where I live.

I can barely walk to my house from my garage or the office from my parking spot without wanting to cry like a bitch.

[KevinNYC]

Just started snowing in Charlotte. People are freaking out like they're the last Jedi on Hoth.
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfG0-MOCEAEn9D5.jpg

Hothlanta, baby!