Bitter temperatures stretch into a fourth day across several states. Four deaths so far.
The “cold snap” arrived Saturday night as waves of Arctic air swept south from Canada, pushing temperatures to dangerous lows and leaving a section of the country well-versed in winter’s pains reeling.
In International Falls, Minnesota , the temperature dropped to minus 30F on Tuesday morning. The so-called “Nation’s Icebox” climbed to a balmy 3 below zero F for a high.
Among the coldest temperatures recorded Tuesday was 35 below at Crane Lake, Minn., a National Weather Service forecaster said early Wednesday.
The coldest location in the lower 48 states Monday was Embarrass, Minn., at 36 below. On Sunday it was Babbitt, Minn., at 29 below, according to the National Weather Service.
The bitter conditions were expected to persist into the weekend in the Midwest through the eastern half of the U.S.
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Will this winter weather ever make it’s way to Florida too?And Do you except this winter weather to continue.It seems that way.Do you think that all the united states is in a ice age now.
Julie, technicially we’ve been in an ice-age for a long time. The definition is when both hemispheres have large ice sheets. Antarctica & Greenland being the examples. We are in an interglacial period of the current ice-age. Since Glaciers(most of them) are growing around the world, and with the predictions of a hibernating sun, it does look as though we’re headed for another glacial advance within the ice-age. And yes it’s just winter, there will be a summer and it might be hot at times, but on the average it might also be cooler and shorter. Time will tell.
During Ice Ages and especially at the onset of Ice Ages there are short HOT summers.
Noted. And the weather is wilder than it would be in a warming world.
because of the speed of thermal equilibration decreases: the high pressure zones (either cold or hot) tend to last longer and cause more extreme local weather events …
I can recall living through 50 below temps occasionally when I used to live in St. Lawrence County, NY. On one of those nights, back in 1984, I fell off a log and broke through the ice. Then I had to walk 2 miles home. I immediately took a shower to try to warm up…and I recall shivering in the hot water even as I turned it hotter and hotter.
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Thursdays lowest -42F at Embarass, MN.