Residents of the United States, from the Pacific Northwest to the Deep South – as well as Canada – were greeted by an Arctic air mass that arrived on Jan. 12, 2024.
This was the beginning of two back-to-back episodes of unusually cold weather with subzero temperatures common. There were widespread power outages. At least 55 people have died from the cold and weather-related incidents. [emphasis, links added]
Nineteen of these deaths were in Tennessee alone. In the city of Memphis, there were so many broken water mains that city water pressure fell to dangerously low levels. As a result, Memphis Light, Gas, and Water recommended that its 400,000 customers boil their drinking water.
Dickinson, North Dakota, reported a minus 66-degree F. wind chill early on Saturday, Jan. 13. In Canada’s Northwest Territories, Lupin recorded a -77-degree F. wind chill, with 40 mph winds and temperatures in the minus 30s common.
Adding to the misery, several major cities in the US were blanketed with snow during the weekend of Jan. 20-21.
CNN called this “the coldest air in a generation”. It wasn’t just the temperatures that were so remarkable but the length of time through which these frigid Arctic temperatures persisted.
People in eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas witnessed the longest period of below-freezing weather in many years.
The temperature never rose above the freezing mark for ten days, except for a brief time in the afternoon of Thursday, January 18.
“It’s never been this cold for this long during the thirty years that I’ve lived here,” exclaimed one homeowner.
In West Virginia, cold weather advisories and storm warnings were issued on Saturday, January 20, with additional snow and winds gusting to 40 mph. The wind chill temperatures were as low as -20° F (-29°C).
The Friday session of the West Virginia legislature ended early because the majority of lawmakers were blocked by treacherous, snow-covered highways.
Deadly ice storms forced Tina Kotek, governor of Oregon, to declare a statewide emergency on Thursday. More freezing rain was forecast, putting trees and power lines already coated with ice in more danger.
This, of course, was caused by the extreme southerly movement of the jet stream. According to British meteorologist Piers Corbin, who is famous for his excellent extended-weather forecasts, a weakened jet stream is characteristic of a cooling climate.
Members of the Climate Cult claim otherwise.
NY TIMES WHEN IT IS UNSEASONABLY COLD:
"These stupid anti-science Trump MAGA folks need to understand that weather is not climate change!"NY TIMES WHEN IT IS UNSEASONABLY WARM:
"This PROVES there is climate change and the science is irrefutable!!!" pic.twitter.com/nH4pWt8nAD— Brad Slager – Scrubbing Down In a Bloodbath (@MartiniShark) December 27, 2023
To be sure, the Arctic cold spell was quickly blamed on global warming.
Some scientists claim that polar vortex disruptions and changes to the jet stream were being driven by warming in the Arctic, which they say is heating up about four times faster than the rest of the planet.
They also maintain that climate change can influence the severity of winter storms, as “a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture leading to more intense rain or snow when it falls.”
However, snowfall amounts are about the same as ever. This doesn’t explain the cold temperatures, however.
Professor David Dilley, a former NOAA Meteorologist, stated on November 21, 2023, that he believes that the Earth is in for a period of cooling.
Professor Dilley developed ClimatePulse Technology, based on Geomagnetic Cycles of the Earth, Moon, And Sun, and how these cycles align with historical, present-day, and future cycles of climate and weather.
In a 2012 paper, Jennifer Francis, at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Massachusetts, claimed that as the Arctic warms, the difference between the cold temperatures in the north and warm temperatures in the south causes the formation of a weaker, wavier jet stream, which pushes very cold air southwards.
This conclusion has been debated by many scientists, who admit that the links between Arctic warming and cold periods are far from clear.
The idea that warm Arctic air pushes cold air south violates the laws of physics. The molecules in a warm air mass are farther apart. Less dense warm air is unable to push heavier cold air around. This is the reason why cold fronts come in quickly and are sometimes accompanied by high winds.
In 2021, Judah Cohen, a climatologist at MIT, published a paper claiming that rapid heating in some parts of the Arctic, as well as significant snowfall in Siberia, knocks the polar vortex off course, causing the jet stream to become “more wavy.”
“We are not arguing that winters are getting colder overall,” Cohen told CNN last year. But the idea that climate change will mean fewer swings between extreme temperatures is an oversimplification.”
James Screen, a professor of climate science at Exeter University, conducted research that indicated that Arctic warming doesn’t cause colder winters in temperate climates.
He explained that while there have been several very cold Northern Hemisphere winters coinciding with warm Arctic winters, it is difficult to separate cause from effect. He believes that extreme cold spells are caused simply by normal climate variability.
The “mainstream” media is scrambling for an effective cover-up of what has been happening.
According to MSNBC, “The cold weather has climate-change deniers blowing lots of hot air.” It’s too bad that we climate realists haven’t blown enough hot air to raise the temperature a bit.
Many more interesting facts about climate can be found in Lynne’s book,
Exposing the Great Climate Change Lie, available on Amazon in paper and Kindle.
Another example based on a headline – “Antarctic Heating Up 4 Times Faster Than Average” (Sky News August 2022)
If global average temperatures have risen from 15.0°C to 15.1°C “here” and Antarctic temperatures have risen from (say) minus 30°C to minus 29.6°C i.e. 0.4° “hotter” than average “there”
Then the ignorant thermogeddonists claim that “there” has risen 0.4°C while “here” has risen 0.1°C
Therefore temperature “there” has risen four time faster than “here”!
Horsefeathers !
The reality of thermodynamics in Kelvin is that “there” is only 0.14% hotter than “here”.
Such is the scientific nonsense touted by the MSM and swallowed by a scientifically ignorant and therefore gullible public.
If you can’t figure out why “there” is only 0.14% hotter than “here” – welcome to the ignorant chattering masses – take a science course.
So when you find “Climate Scientists” multiplying or dividing the Centigrade or Fahrenheit scales by any factor, there can only be two reasons :-
1) They deliberately want to overemphasize (or underemphasise) their findings – which is misrepresentation or fraud.
2) They don’t actually understand what they are doing and you should ignore the accolade “scientist” if they are ignorant of such scientific basics.
So a “scientist” saying that 2°C is double 1°C is talking out of his hat (or somewhere way further south).
Slanger should have Fool as his Middle Name blames everything on Trump and Trump Supporters he sounds and stupid as Hollywood Hypocrite Robert Redford who claims Fossil Fuels are Cooking the Earth while still ding ads for United Airlines(Its Time to Fly)These Eco-Freaks are more nutty then 500 Acres of Walnut Tress at Harvest Time
Temperatures worldwide stays the same on average. The difference is simply that air masses move about, so if the polar vortex is shifted south by the position of the lunar / solar cycle during the winter, the warmer moist air will try to invade farther north to replace it, but since moist air is more buoyant than dry air it rises and creates more snow in the colder north, along with slightly warmer temperatures.
I also use the lunar / solar cycles in my yearly weather forecast and it is proven to be quite accurate. The arctic air went south right on schedule.