Better have plenty of whale blubber

[SlugSlinger]

Or fire wood or whatever you use to heat with.


Cold Records are going to be SHATTERED! - “By the end of NEXT week, some states will be running 36 F BELOW NORMAL."

**WIDESPREAD BLAST OF COLD AIR PLUNGES FROM ALASKA TO THE WESTERN US EARLY NEXT WEEK AND THEN EXPANDS INTO THE EASTERN US**

Overview
While we end November on a warm note here in the eastern US, there are changes unfolding across the Northern Hemisphere that will likely bring a widespread very cold air mass into the US next week. This cold air mass is first going to arrive in Alaska this upcoming weekend with some spots in that state plunging to 40 degrees below zero and way below normal for early December. After that, the cold air dives into the western US during the first half of next week and then it’ll likely blast into the eastern US late next week. In fact, by the time Saturday, December 10th rolls around, there may be colder-than-normal conditions all the way from Alaska to the southeastern US. Beyond that, it looks like this colder pattern will indeed have some staying power as we move deeper into the month of December.




http://www.climatedepot.com/2016/11...ld-anomaly-forecast-across-almost-entire-usa/

 

[Perplexed]

Ugh. I better put the covers on the outdoor faucets, amongst other winterizing steps...

 

[SlugSlinger]

Alaska is witnessing its coldest air in almost two years, and some of the biting chill is forecast to plunge into the western United States in about a week’s time.

In Fairbanks on Tuesday morning, the temperature tanked to minus-31 degrees, ending a 624-day stretch in which it was warmer than that — the second longest on record. Tuesday afternoon, the mercury only recovered to minus-21, ending a record-long 658-day stretch with highs above minus-10.

It was even colder in Bettles, Alaska, on Tuesday, where the temperature dropped to minus-41 with a bone-chilling wind chill of minus-53.

Statewide, it was the first time Alaska’s daily temperature index was significantly below normal in almost a year.
This morning, some locations in our 49th state plummeted as low as minus-40 to minus-45 degrees.

Although the weather in the Last Frontier is cold compared with the past two years, it has been much colder in the past. Alaska’s coldest November temperature of minus-62 was set in 1970 at Prospect Creek.

Through October this year, Alaska was having its warmest year on record.

But it’s cold now and expected to stay cold for at least another week or so. For the first time since February 2014, the National Weather Service predicts much of the state to be colder than normal in its six- to 10-day outlook.

As the cold continues to build over Alaska and western Canada over the next week, some of it will begin to bleed south.

Computer models are unanimous in bringing a significant blast of cold air to the western half of the United States in about six to eight days. On Wednesday afternoon next week, temperatures are forecast to be 20 to 30 degrees colder than normal in much of the Rockies and western Plains.

While the exact numbers are subject to shift, this would mean highs in the teens in Denver and Billings, Mont., and the 20s around Salt Lake City.

Some of this cold air is likely to shift toward the eastern half of the country in eight to 10 days, but models tend to suggest it will lose some of its intensity.
When the cold assaults the western United States this time next week and clashes with milder air to the east, a storm is likely to form, producing heavy snow west of its center and potentially strong thunderstorms to the east. It is far too early to pin down the specific storm track, but the central United States should start to monitor the situation in the coming days.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ll-into-u-s-next-week/?utm_term=.b43fd43ec59b

 

[Okie4570]

I think I saw where the low was going to be 20* here next week...............

 

[SlugSlinger]

I think I saw where the low was going to be 20* here next week...............

Yeah, its probably nothing. Nothing like the media sensationalizing normal weather.

 

[JD8]

KJRH and 6 were just saying like 2-3 weeks ago, how warm it will be into mid December. Granted the NWS is talking about this cold front stuff now, usually they are pretty accurate.

 

[Jeff405]

I'll be stocking some liquor to keep warm. And dig out my wool socks.

 

[Okie4570]

I'll be stocking some liquor to keep warm. And dig out my wool socks.

Putting your liquor bottles in wool socks........haven't heard of that one before!

 

[dennishoddy]

Weather Channel is calling for 17 degrees next Wednesday.

 

[swampratt]

I have some more wood to cut up .
Wine bottle air locks are almost done bubbling. Got some deer in the freezer.
All is good.