Temperatures have plummeted even further today as brutal arctic cold has swooped down into the United States.
PORTLAND, Maine – Temperatures dropped to breathtaking levels, well below zero, in extreme northern sections of Maine early Monday.
Thermometers registered 34 degrees Fahrenheit below zero at Van Buren, 27 below at Presque Isle and 26 below at Allagash, the National Weather Service reported.In the northern Rockies, Butte, Mont., registered 32 below at 8 a.m. — with a wind chill of minus 47, the weather service said.
Washington, DC also got a small taste of how bitterly cold it has been, with temperatures registering more than 20° F below the norm.
Although it was nothing compared with the below-zero temperatures felt by football fans in Green Bay, Wis., the Washington region barely tipped 20 degrees yesterday afternoon. With winds of up to 25 mph, it felt even colder: 8 degrees at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport and 12 degrees at Reagan National Airport.
At Dulles International Airport, one of the colder spots in the Washington region, the windchill factor at midday was 6 degrees.
By 10 p.m., the temperature at National had dipped to 20 degrees, the lowest reading since March 8. The record low for the day at National is 2 below, set in 1985. The normal high for the day is 42, and the record high is 70 (set in 1951).
Accuweather is predicting more cold and quite a lot of lake effect snow. The temperatures will moderate somewhat but still remain dreadfully cold.
Obviously another effect of global warming.
That’s why they renamed it “climate change.” Now, if the weather doesn’t match your childhood memories, it’s because there are too many fossil fuels in use!