This will be the coldest air of the Winter season thus far, and in many cases the coldest in several years,” the National Weather Service warned.
The storm that was responsible for our overnight snow and rain is now quickly pulling up into Eastern Canada. As this storm continues to move farther northeast, cold Arctic air is going to replace it.
Extreme cold has a unique ability to render survival dependent on uninterrupted energy supplies. A power outage during a heat wave, while dangerous, generally poses less of an immediate threat than one during an Arctic blast. You can survive without air conditioning longer than you can survive without heat in sub-zero temperatures.
A polar vortex dipping down from Siberia will bring a cold front with frigid temperatures to nearly 300 million Americans. See maps of the arctic blast.
The Arctic is heating up particularly fast as a result of global warming—with serious consequences. The widespread permafrost in this region, where soils currently store twice as much carbon as the atmosphere,
A potent surge of Arctic air starts settling in Monday evening as a massive dip in the jet stream pulls in frigid air across the entire eastern half of the country. Temperatures are set to drop as low as 20 degrees below average through Thursday with the highs only reaching the teens and some lows even plunging below zero.
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HOUSTON — All Houston airports will close Tuesday due to the winter storm expected in the area, officials said Sunday. An arctic front with wintry precipitation is expected to move into the area overnight Monday.
An arctic air mass will settle over the Charlotte area on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day, bringing lows in the mid teens and a chance of snow, according to the National Weather Service. The odds of snow are 30% Tuesday afternoon into the evening, forecasters said Monday, Jan. 20.
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are under winter storm warnings Sunday as the entire region deals with a significant snowstorm. Tri-State Area officials had been issuing warnings and discussing the states' preparations in the days leading up to the storm.
Heavy snow is expected to blanket large portions of the Eastern U.S. while much of the country will endure dangerously cold temperatures in the coming days