03 January 2015

Ready to shiver? Not Rico


The Associated Press has an article about this winter:
Much of America is about to get the Arctic shivers. Meteorologists are confidently forecasting frigid polar air will plunge south into the northern plains, the Midwest, and then the East Coast from next Tuesday through Thursday. The Midwest should see temperatures well below zero, with single digit lows in much of the East and freezing temperatures as far south as Atlanta, Georgia, New Orleans, Louisiana and parts of Florida.
National Weather Service meteorologist Paul Kocin, an expert on winter storms, said it is a classic pattern of massive blasts of Arctic air hitting just about everyone east of the Rockies. He said it will rival last year’s January Arctic outbreak that introduced the phrase “polar vortex” to America. “This is going to be a big cold outbreak, pretty windy as well,” Kocin said. “It’s going to drive all the way down south.”
The wind and cold could mean wind-chill factors that will make the temperature feel like thirty degrees below zero and fifty degrees below zero in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Chicago, Illinois, said meteorologist Ryan Maue of the private company Weather Bell Analytics. He called it “old-timer’s type of cold”.
Kocin predicts a small Midwestern band of intense snow along with the cold, with some also in parts of the Northeast. Even though it is several days in advance, meteorologists are pretty sure about this forecast. Kocin said many of the best computer models are saying the same thing.
This is all coming from cold air escaping from the Arctic. The center of the cold air will be around Quebec in Canada, where temperatures— not including wind chill— may plunge as low as forty degrees below zero, Maue said.
Rico says that he, as an old-timer, continues to loathe cold weather...

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