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Polar vortex 2.0? Freezing temps, snow & icy rain to hit 200mn people
The
Chicago skyline is framed by icicles in Chicago, Illinois © Jim
Young / Reuters
RT,
9
December, 2016
Ready,
steady, bundle up! Jack Frost is about to dance across the Northeast
with a freezing polar vortex making a dramatic return to the US.
Chills, snow and rain are expected to make a landfall over the
weekend, likely bringing old classics like slippery roads and flight
delays.
Meteorologists
predict that the freezing blast will cover midwestern and
northeastern states for at least five to seven days. So, getting out
extra scarves and gloves might be a good idea.
Ryan Maue
Even with Arctic blasts thru next 7 days, 1/4 of Lower 48 US population won't get colder than 32°F or freezing. Snowbirds & California
This
year’s polar vortex, or a shift in a stratospheric weather system,
is already been predicted to be just as bad as the one that developed
in January 2014, when record freezing temperatures gripped the US.
"Upper-level
atmosphere configuration very similar in scale & magnitude as
infamous Jan 2014 #PolarVortex popularized by me and
@afreedma," meteorologist
Ryan Maue said on Twitter on Tuesday alongside maps comparing the two
weather systems.
The Weather Channel
No, these are not forecast low temperatures. These are high temperatures for the second half of next week. More: http://wxch.nl/2hlGlI6
More
than 200 million Americans are expected to be affected by freezing
temperatures, snow and rain, or a mix of both.
AMHQ
AccuWeather
warned of temperatures plummeting from 10 to 20 degrees below average
from Little Rock, Arkansas, to Chicago before expanding eastward to
Richmond, Virginia, and Boston.
"It's
going to be a shock," said
Kevin Roth, senior meteorologist at The Weather Channel told NBC
News. "The
fall was closest to the warmest on record so this is really back to
reality."
Chilly
weather is expected in New York, with temperatures as low as 32
degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius), which with arctic air might
feel even lower.
“High
temperatures both days should be in the 30s, with low temperatures
tonight falling into the teens well inland and 20s most
elsewhere,” National
Weather Service (NWS) in New York said in an update on
Friday.
AccuWeather
has also predicted “enough
snow” to
shovel for areas from Chicago to Detroit already on Saturday night
and Sunday.
Heavy lake-effect #snow will continue into Saturday, with more than a foot of additional snow possible in spots: http://wxch.nl/2gsjBIv
“Disruptive
snow” will
also hit the Dakotas, Minnesota and Iowa beginning on Saturday and
then will cover parts of Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan on Saturday
night, AccuWeather specialists warned.
“The
exact track and intensity of the storm will ultimately determine how
much snow falls in cities like Des Moines, Iowa; Minneapolis; Madison
and Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Chicago,” AccuWeather
Meteorologist Kyle Elliott said, forecasting“a
two-pronged attack on the Midwest.”
The
NWS has also warned of "plowable
snowfall" in
areas away from the coast from Sunday afternoon into Monday morning.
Snow
won’t miss the areas from Hartford, Connecticut, to Boston and
Portland, Maine, where up to a few inches are expected Sunday night
and Monday.
Next week #polarvortex Arctic Blast coldest temperatures in Midwest. Unlimited Lake Effect snow showers. Good white Christmas chances?
However,
AccuWeather has also predicted “another
storm with some snow, ice and rain” in
the Northeast on Wednesday,“ahead
of a blast of arctic air that will likely bring the lowest
temperatures of the season yet before the end of the week.”
School
delays, road closures and change in airlines’ schedules are widely
expected throughout the next week due to these dramatic weather
conditions.
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