Polar vortex hits Chicago/Midwest with life-threatening temperatures; Colder than Mars and Anartica!

[Pakistanian]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Chicago will be colder than Antarctica this week <a href="https://t.co/ZNNjF4ffYn">https://t.co/ZNNjF4ffYn</a> <a href="https://t.co/2x4dvMiOYX">pic.twitter.com/2x4dvMiOYX</a></p>— CNN (@CNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1090200390476484609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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https://www.npr.org/2019/01/28/6895...dwest-with-life-threatening-cold-temperatures

A polar vortex is descending upon the Midwest this week, bringing the coldest weather there in a generation. Snow has already blanketed Chicago, and that will be followed by life-threatening arctic temperatures that will extend from Illinois west through North and South Dakota until Thursday.

Rich Otto, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, tells NPR, "These are probably some of the coldest temperatures that the area has seen, parts of the upper Midwest, since the mid-'90s."

Otto says wind will drive the temperatures down even further. "The other thing to consider with the cold temperatures are going to be the winds, and so the winds in combination with the cold temperatures are going to allow for some dangerously cold wind chills, values as cold as minus 30 to minus 50 degrees in a couple locations, and even colder as you get farther north, into parts of Minnesota, where some of those wind chills could get down to minus 60," Otto says.

In some areas, public schools called off classes; state workers were sent home; and flights were canceled. In Wisconsin, Gov. Tony Evers declared a state of emergency and told the National Guard to prepare to help communities "across the state and keep people warm and safe."

 

[in_cutter]

Damn.

Here in the UK, 1cm of snows brings everything to a halt

 

[Pakistanian]

Damn.

Here in the UK, 1cm of snows brings everything to a halt

haha same thing down south, we get maybe 6 inches of snow and it stops everything, the north is just stupid cold lol.

 

[KingKhanWC]

haha same thing down south, we get maybe 6 inches of snow and it stops everything, the north is just stupid cold lol.

Do people still go to work and school? It would be a total shut down in the UK...apart from Desi takeaways which always remain open

 

[JaDed]

Working from home, building management has asked us to keep hot water running lol

 

[JaDed]

Do people still go to work and school? It would be a total shut down in the UK...apart from Desi takeaways which always remain open

No it's closed today and tmrw in Chicago and suburbs atleast, it was informed to everyone by last weekend itself.
I can't really tell what is opened but it's not the snow it's the temperature..,it's impossible to go out coz the wind. Right now temp is -25 c but feels like value is -38..

 

[KingKhanWC]

No it's closed today and tmrw in Chicago and suburbs atleast, it was informed to everyone by last weekend itself.
I can't really tell what is opened but it's not the snow it's the temperature..,it's impossible to go out coz the wind. Right now temp is -25 c but feels like value is -38..

Stay warm! I would move down south if this is a yearly thing.

 

[slipcatch]

Working from home, building management has asked us to keep hot water running lol

You meant “cold” water?

 

[Pakistanian]

You meant “cold” water?

The water is heated so it doesn't feel any different.

 

[kingusama92]

I've said this before, even as a Canadian, Chicago's winters are ridiculously cold. The worst type of cold I've ever experienced.

 

[JaDed]

You meant “cold” water?

Naw, hot one atleast thats what the memo said..for the pipesss

 

[JaDed]

Stay warm! I would move down south if this is a yearly thing.

Thanks ,just a day thing should be ok tmrw after 12 pm, apparently last it was this cold was 1985..

 

[JaDed]

I've said this before, even as a Canadian, Chicago's winters are ridiculously cold. The worst type of cold I've ever experienced.

Its the wind, that makes it colder, I don't understand why Toronto doesn't have that, coz it has a lake too.

 

[nitrous]

Its the wind, that makes it colder, I don't understand why Toronto doesn't have that, coz it has a lake too.

What part of Chicago are you? I’m in the northwest suburbs and yes, it was cold today, with weather warning until 12pm tomorrow.

 

[ahmedzee]

It is summer in Antarctica, not fair if we compare Chicago with the land of the penguins. We should compare it with Winnipeg or the Canadian Arctic, where temperatures were -52 today.

 

[Pakistanian]

It is summer in Antarctica, not fair if we compare Chicago with the land of the penguins. We should compare it with Winnipeg or the Canadian Arctic, where temperatures were -52 today.

It was like -60* F in Minneapolis

 

[JaDed]

What part of Chicago are you? I’m in the northwest suburbs and yes, it was cold today, with weather warning until 12pm tomorrow.

1 mile from Wrigley field , guessing you are from Naperville/Aurora?

 

[UP]

Its the wind, that makes it colder, I don't understand why Toronto doesn't have that, coz it has a lake too.

Toronto as well has strong winds. -10 or -20 is not a big problem, its the wind that messes it up. Its -33 in Toronto today with windchill.

 

[slipcatch]

Naw, hot one atleast thats what the memo said..for the pipesss

Really? We are told to let the cold water drip.
Why would warm water make the pipe burst?
When water freeze it expands.
Someone probably made a mistake.

 

[JaDed]

Really? We are told to let the cold water drip.
Why would warm water make the pipe burst?
When water freeze it expands.
Someone probably made a mistake.

Could be true, but guess they don't want the pipes to have cold water..and keep the flow of hot water, maybe I should ask em the logic.

 

[slipcatch]

Could be true, but guess they don't want the pipes to have cold water..and keep the flow of hot water, maybe I should ask em the logic.

It suppose to be cold water so the pipes won’t burst.

Running warm water isn’t doing anything but increasing in your utility bills.

 

[ahmedzee]

It was like -60* F in Minneapolis

Yeah, Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan were the same. It’s crazy. Insanely cold there

 

[Zeeraq]

Extreme weather shatters records around the world

US cities as cold as the Arctic. An Australian inferno. The UK covered in snow.

It's only one month into 2019 and meteorologists are already talking in superlatives as extreme weather patterns have brought cities and towns across the globe to a standstill.

In the United States this week, some 200 million Americans experienced a historic deep freeze that saw temperatures plummet below -32 degrees Celsius (-26 Fahrenheit), killed at least 17 people and led to the cancellation of more than 2,300 flights.

On Thursday, temperatures in 11 states in the continental US saw temperatures lower than the one recorded in Utqiagvik, Alaska's northernmost city, situated north of the Arctic Circle.

Ice covers the Lake Michigan shoreline on January 30 in Chicago as the city copes with record-setting low temperatures.

Authorities in some of the hardest-hit cities such as Minneapolis and Chicago implored residents to stay indoors to prevent frostbite -- in one Chicago hospital, doctors treated 50 frostbite victims; some may lose an arm or a leg.

Across the pond, the United Kingdom recorded record lows this week as frosty weather pounded parts of England, Scotland and Wales.

On Thursday, residents in Braemar in northeast Scotland experienced -14.4 C (6.1 F), according to the UK's national weather service, the Met Office. This was the lowest temperature recorded in the UK since 2012.

Heavy snow has created roadblocks for travelers across the country. Some flights at London's Heathrow Airport were canceled Friday; passengers were stuck on snow-covered runways at airports in Manchester and Liverpool earlier in the week.

Hundreds of schools across parts of England and Wales closed Friday, with the Met Office continuing to warn of treacherous driving conditions in some southern parts of the country.

In the southwestern county of Cornwall Thursday night, more than 100 motorists ended up abandoning their cars on a major highway blanketed in snow and walking to a pub, where they spent the night.

Parts of France also came under a weather warning after heavy snow fall, Météo France, the national meteorological service, warned earlier this week.

But as parts of the US and Europe saw record lows, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology announced it had been the country's hottest January on record.

The "unprecedented" heat wave that burned its way through all of the country's melted roads, saw infrastructure fail and killed thousands of animals.

In the Northern Territory, the bodies of dozens of wild horses were found strewn along a dried-up water hole. In Victoria, more than 2,000 flying foxes died from heat stress, in what local media described as a "nightmare" event. Similar mass flying fox deaths have been recorded in the states of New South Wales and Queensland.

In the southern state of Tasmania, dozens of bushfires broke out, destroying homes and wilderness as hundreds of firefighters sought to get the blazes under control.

On January 24, residents in the southern city of Adelaide experienced the hottest day on record for their city, with temperatures peaking at 46.6 C (116 F).

Throughout the country, health warnings have been issued, advising people to stay indoors during the hottest part of the day, minimize physical activity and keep hydrated.

While the current heat continues to cause problems for Australians now, scientists warn that without coordinated action on climate change, heat waves will become more likely.

"Climate change is making heat waves more likely but any individual event is effectively a weather phenomenon," Ben Webber, lecturer in climate science in the Climatic Research Unit at the UK's University of East Anglia, told CNN.

"We can try and mitigate against the worst effects of climate change by reducing carbon emissions, that's really the best thing to do -- but obviously that requires global action. So individuals can help, but it has to be a big global action to be effective," he said.

"That comes back to what politicians have been trying to agree on ... and that's why these extreme events are part of the motivation for striving to limit global mean temperatures' rise to less than 2 degrees (Celsius) or possibly to 1.5 degrees against current levels," Webber said. While we can't control the weather, he added, we can adapt to and minimize the impact that extreme weather can have on us.

That comes down to having the necessary infrastructure in place to deal with the extremes, he said.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/01/weather/extreme-weather-us-uk-australia-gbr-intl/index.html

 

[SL_Fan]

When I was hearing minus thirties and forties I thought they were having a laugh. That is bladdy cold eek. Stay safe.

 

[MP2011]

I read somewhere that Trump was asking for global warming to come back!

 

[TM Riddle]

I read somewhere that Trump was asking for global warming to come back!

Yeah he probably thought it's only related to rising temperatures.

 

[MP2011]

Yeah he probably thought it's only related to rising temperatures.

True. He also doesn't understand difference between climate and weather.