A wave of bitterly cold air is sweeping through the midsection of the nation, touching off snow and ice storms from the southwest to the northeast. It does not look like it is going to improve much for some time. The jet stream has made a huge loop to the south, dipping down as far as Texas and bringing a barrage of Arctic cold with it.
The jet stream is set up in such a manner that it will continue to draw messy weather over the same corridor of the nation through the first half of the week. The setup will continue to be a large dip in the jet stream over the West with a series of storms riding along the jet from the Southwest to the Northeast, spreading wintry weather east.
The Severe Weather Center displays the widespread winter weather-related warnings, watches and advisories currently covering areas from the southern Plains to New England. Some freezing rain advisories are also in effect from northeastern Pennsylvania to southern Connecticut.
On Saturday, freezing rain that spread from the central Plains to the lower Great Lakes caused more treacherous traveling conditions than heavy bands of snow that spread east farther north in the Plains. An icy glaze built on city streets and secondary roads in Salina, Kan., due to freezing rain. Numerous accidents were reported on the interstates and throughout Saline County with parts of Kansas seeing widespread power outages due to more than an inch of ice in some areas.
They call these events "Blue northers". A very apt name. It is very, very cold out there right now.
In North Central Montana, where I grew up, we called them Alberta Clippers.
Pound Sand up your A** Algore.
Winter is here and it isn’t going to fun!
Just when Al Gore had it primed for the sting, the sun goes to sleep. The modern maxima looks all used up these days.
Anyone noticed Al Gore is getting filthy rich off this AGW scam? Last Gore speech was $6000 a minute — For what?
It is so cold outside that I saw a lawyer with his hands in his own pockets.
A classic Will Rogers line if there ever was one.