PBS is just one of many who are turning a winter storm into Other People’s fault for driving fossil fueled vehicles, eating meat, and holding on to their Freedom
Still days out, and, really, things are changing enough that we won’t really know till sometime Friday, but, I do not want ice/freezing rain. Whatever happens, I blame you
Warm Arctic waters and cold continental land are combining to stretch the dreaded polar vortex in a way that will send much of the United States a devastating dose of winter weather later this week with swaths of painful subzero temperatures, heavy snow and powerline-toppling ice.
Meteorologists said the eastern two-thirds of the nation is threatened with a winter storm that could rival the damage of a major hurricane and has some origins in an Arctic that is warming from climate change. They warn that the frigid weather is likely to stick around through the rest of January and into early February, meaning the snow and ice that accumulates will take a long time to melt.
Forecasts have the storm, expected to hit starting Friday, stretching from New Mexico to New England and across the Deep South. About 230 million people face temperatures of 20 degrees (-7 degrees Celsius) or colder and around 150 million are likely to be hit by snow and ice, with many Americans getting both, according to the National Weather Service.
The polar vortex, a patch of bitterly cold air that often stays penned up in northern Canada and Alaska, is being elongated by a wave in the upper atmosphere that goes back to a relatively ice-free part of the Arctic and snow-buried Siberia. As the bone-chilling temperatures sweep through the U.S., they’ll meet with moisture from off California and the Gulf of Mexico to set up crippling ice and snow in many areas.
So, too much warmth from ‘climate change’ and too much snow from ‘climate change’ is driving this storm, totally manmade, as opposed to the storms long ago which did the same and were totally natural. And, yes, there is supposed to be another big blast of winter weather next week, too.
Had the cultists their way, Mrs Pico and I would be looking forward to the forecast snowmageddon with dread, fearing a snowpocalypse, and perhaps even an icetastrophe, because this is the kind of forecast that could bring down powerlines and poles. Had the cultists their way, we’d have only electricity for heating, for cooking, for showers, and a 4½ day power outage, something we’ve had before, when after-the-storm forecasts are for temperatures in the teens, could leave is stranded, snowed or iced in, with food we couldn’t cook, and animals for which we couldn’t care.
However, we have our propane fireplace, we have our propane water heater, and we have our propane range, and we have a couple of oil lamps. If the power fails, we’ll have a decently, if not necessarily uniformly warm house, we’ll have food we can cook — though only on the range top, because electricity is required for the oven — and we’ll have hot water with which to bathe.
Alas! Our Keurig won’t work without sparktricity, but we do have a stove top percolator, so we’ll have coffee. Mrs Pico is at Kroger even as I type, getting food for us and for the critters, and, being both retired, we’ll have no particular place to go. We can stay safely at home, sit in front of the fireplace, read books on our Kindles, and occasionally check out the snowy vistas spreading before us.
But the good news is super warm in the Arctic.
High temp today Bartow Alaska, was +26 F at 12:01 am
It appears that Gore was correct that as the planet warms and there is not energy in the atmosphere we can expect more extreme weather frequency
Johnny-where’s it been?
Of course it is that too warm Arctic area creating high pressure reacting in accordance with Boyles and Charles laws That forces the Polar Vortex do far south
And in 1978 the same phenomenon was blamed on a cooling Arctic and expanding ice coverage. Gore should have named it the Bi-Polar Vortex…