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Polar vortex unleashed: Severe cold snap likely in U.S. next week

Expected Temps next week (without windchill)

Simulation of arctic blast from Monday (12/12) to Thursday (12/15)

Departure from Normal Temps Next Wednesday (12/14)


And it's coming from Siberia

A punishing blast of Arctic air will plunge into the northern half of the Lower 48 in five to seven days, dispensing some of the most frigid air since 2014 or 2015 in some areas.

“[The] upper-level atmosphere configuration [is] very similar in scale and magnitude as infamous January 2014 #PolarVortex”, tweeted Ryan Maue, a meteorologist with WeatherBell Analytics.

Computer models are unanimous in predicting that such a cold wave will occur, although they differ some on exactly how cold and how far south and east the Arctic air will penetrate. It is unlikely that this cold wave will be as intense as the January 2014 event because it is happening earlier in the winter and less snow is on the ground in North America (snow cover acts like a freezer and helps cold air masses stay cold when they exit the Arctic).

The bitter cold air is expected to first arrive in the northern Rockies and northern Plains on Sunday. It should reach Chicago on Tuesday and the northeast United States by Wednesday or Thursday.

While subject to change, the GFS model predicts temperatures from Chicago to western Montana to be 30 to 50 degrees colder than normal next Wednesday morning.

A large area from the Great Lakes through the Dakotas and into Wyoming and Montana are predicted to have low temperatures well below zero with even colder wind chills — as low as minus-30 to minus-40 degrees.

Minneapolis could have several days with highs in the single digits and lows below zero during the middle part of next week

The frigid air will be sourced from Siberia, which has experienced punishing and sometimes record cold in recent weeks

Here's why

Models show the cold air spilling into the Lower 48 as a lobe of the polar vortex over the northern part of the Baffin Bay (west of Greenland) breaks off and plunges south into south-central Canada. Its counter-clockwise circulation, coupled with two companion lobes of the vortex to its north, helps create what is essentially a superhighway for bitter cold air to stream across Siberia over the North Pole and into North America.

European model simulation of high-altitude weather pattern next Tuesday. The red painted line is illustrative of cross-polar flow transporting frigid air into Lower 48. A lobe of the polar vortex, having broken off from the northern part of Baffin Bay, is over south-central Canada. (WeatherBell.com)

Stay Frosty!

 

[Aztechnology]

 

[McDougles]

"But if Global Warming is a thing, why is it so much colder than yesterday?"

 

[hypernima]

in before senator snowball.

Edit: for fucks sakes man.

 

[ActStriker]

My body is ready.

 

[BradC00]

It's already in the teens in Utah. I'm dying.

 

[Ray Wonder]

Damn it, I was enjoying this mild fall. I only scraped my car windows once this season.

 

[Duxxy3]

5-8 inches of snow predicted for my area for next Saturday.

Thanks Trump.

 

[Living the Dream]

SEE GAF? YOU'RE ALL WRONG!!

 

[mjc]

Fucking Siberia, keep your vortexes.

 

[Dazzler]

It's been unseasonably cold in the PNW all week, we're supposed to get a dump of snow in Vancouver later today, which is quite rare

 

[SliceSabre]

Alright started for us today here in Northeast Ohio. High of 29 today and currently snowing.


I FUCKING LOVE THIS. Summer and fall were too fucking hot. I worship the snow and cold weather. Maximum comfy weather.

 

[Ziltoidia 9]

Thank goodness the Standing Rock people don't have to be out in this.

 

[faint.]

Holy shit at -46. Is it weird that I want to know how that feels?

e: Stop quoting me: I realized my mistake before most of you pointed it out. See the other posts ITT.

 

[rrs]

got my arctic coat ready, come at me cold because you ain't got shit on me

 

[mnannola]

Don't worry everyone, I will leave my Ford Excursion running all day to help get us back to American temperatures.

 

[Volimar]

Thanks Tru...

5-8 inches of snow predicted for my area for next Saturday.

Thanks Trump.

Shit!

 

[Transistor]

I knew you'd come

 

[digita1alchemy]

Bring all the snow to NC, please. I want an excuse to work from home.

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

If global warming is real, why we still got arctic blasts?

 

[vacantseas]

Holy shit at -46. Is it weird that I want to know how that feels?

Next Wednesday (12/14)

This is departure from normal temp....not what the forecasted temp is going to be. For example, say the average temp here in chicago is 30 this time of year, the forecasted temp will be -4.....so yes it'll be cold...but not as cold as this map will let you believe.

 

[Ziltoidia 9]

Also, look at that discrepancy. +20 degrees average in northern California, but then - 50 degrees average in Montana. Shit is wack.

 

[The Llama]

I normally walk to work in Philadelphia so... Bleh. May have to take the bus for a few days to keep from freezing!

 

[sazzy]

hell has frozen over and the cold is overflowing yay

 

[PeskyToaster]

last time this happened my work was canceled. c'mon weather

 

[Haloid1177]

14 in NOLA is some nonsense I live in this shit state to avoid the cold and now I can't even manage that.

 

[Goro Majima]

Alright started for us today here in Northeast Ohio. High of 29 today and currently snowing.


I FUCKING LOVE THIS. Summer and fall were too fucking hot. I worship the snow and cold weather. Maximum comfy weather.

Me too.

Just moved to St. Louis from Houston and the weather lately has been like biting into a York Peppermint Patty.

 

[enewtabie]

Bring all the snow to NC, please. I want an excuse to work from home.

No all the people that transplanted will drive like it's normal and kill us all lol

 

[faint.]

This is departure from normal temp....not what the forecasted temp is going to be. For example, say the average temp here in chicago is 30 this time of year, the forecasted temp will be -4.....so yes it'll be cold...but not as cold as this map will let you believe.

Yeah, I was initially misled as well. Then I realized the entire south would be in single digits.

 

[Lord Frieza]

Jesus, it's going to -8 in Memphis. That means it's probably be even cooler where I'm at. Going to suck going to work with all that mess.

 

[Pamplemousse]

Does this mean we'll have a white Christmas?! Please, please, please, please

 

[DedValve]

fuck thats really cold tho. Hiding in my apt and not leaving till this blows over (ha!)

 

[xxracerxx]

Jesus, it's going to -8 in Memphis. That means it's probably be even cooler where I'm at. Going to suck going to work with all that mess.

Departure temps.

So eight below the normal...not minus 8 degrees.

OP should really add a disclaimer for people misinterpreting the map.

 

[ahoyhoy]

Russia has answered Trumps prayers to help us combat global warming.

 

[Sidewinder]

Looking forward to Trumps tweet when it gets cold.

 

[Knoxcore]

14 in NOLA is some nonsense I live in this shit state to avoid the cold and now I can't even manage that.

Actually the map says you'll be 14 degrees above normal. People are misreading that map.

 

[Philia]

Also, look at that discrepancy. +20 degrees average in northern California, but then - 50 degrees average in Montana. Shit is wack.

Montana isn't to be fucked with for sure. I've heard stories about the harsh winds there. Like REAL "GTFO" harsh weather there.

 

[gabbo]

Does this mean we'll have a white Christmas?! Please, please, please, please

This is my hope as well

 

[shoreu]

"But if Global Warming is a thing, why is it so much colder than yesterday?"

At least 3 news channels and important people will say this

 

[TheCochese]

Departure from normal, sadly.

Because fuck Montana. Sorry, but I still have Election Tourette's.

 

[You Are Viewtiful]

This is departure from normal temp....not what the forecasted temp is going to be. For example, say the average temp here in chicago is 30 this time of year, the forecasted temp will be -4.....so yes it'll be cold...but not as cold as this map will let you believe.

Shit... how do you convert this to Celsius then?

 

[radios shipping overview]

Thanks Trump

Thanks Putin

 

[demosthenes]

Op copied the wrong picture, the 2nd pic is differences from normal. The link has actual temperatures expected.

 

[cpp_is_king]

Why isn't this on other weather channels? San Jose says 9 degrees next wednesday, every single weather forecast I can find says 50 something.

 

[TangoAlphaLima]

Yo,the South is gonna freeze their effin' asses off. They ain't prepared for this kind of cold.

Op copied the wrong picture, the 2nd pic is differences from normal. The link has actual temperatures expected.

Nevermind, OP is Trump's Minister of Misinformation.

 

[You Are Viewtiful]

Op copied the wrong picture, the 2nd pic is differences from normal. The link has actual temperatures expected.

.

 

[faint.]

Actual lows. Doesn't look very different from a standard winter, at least in the NE.

 

[cpp_is_king]

Why isn't this on other weather channels? San Jose says 9 degrees next wednesday, every single weather forecast I can find says 50 something.

Edit: Nvm I get it, the map is showing the DIFFERENCE from normal temperature.

 

[The Kree]

They should call it global weirding. That's what it actually is.

 

[zeemumu]

LA 7 F you say?

Ah, 55. That makes a lot more sense.