![]() ![]() Then comes Friday, when Elliott is expected to reach its peak intensity with high winds, heavy snow, and blizzard conditions taking over Wisconsin to Illinois and parts of Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Jackson, Mississippi, will face temperatures as low as 13 degrees, and Nashville, Tennessee, will drop down to 5 degrees. By Thursday-also expected to be the most difficult day to travel-things in the Midwest will start to get dicey, with blizzard conditions setting in. Some snow, sleet, or freezing rain is also expected. Starting Wednesday, Arctic air is expected to spread into the Plains and plunge all the way down south. Here’s a quick timeline of when things will get spicy. “Is Fish Meat?” One Justice’s Answer Shows Why the Supreme Court Is So Broken.Ī New, Chilling Secret About the Manhattan Project Has Just Been Made PublicĪ Gay Man Was Killed. “She’s a Kyrsten Sinema Wannabe”: How a House Democrat Sold Out Thousands of flights have been canceled as well-with even more expected. ![]() Parts of the South will get at least a few inches of snow too. As for the rest of the country, over a foot of snow is expected in the Western Great Lakes, while Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois will get up to 6 inches. That’s important to keep in mind if you’re going outside, as wind chills that low can lead to frostbite on exposed skin in 10 minutes or less. And two decades ago, there was the Great Blizzard of 2003, where parts of the country had temperatures no higher than the teens and there was so much snowfall that it caused a 40-foot hole in the roof of the Denver airport.Įven regions where cold winters are the norm are going to feel harsher than usual: wind chills are expected to be minus 30 degrees from the Northern and Central Plains into the Midwest. There was also the New York City blizzard of 2006, which blanketed the city in nearly 27 inches of snow and shut down all major airports. West Virginia got about 42 inches, while other states got over a foot. In 2016 there was winter storm Jonas, which the National Weather Service described as producing “prolific” amounts of snow in parts of the East. ![]() The storms also created icy roads as far away as New Mexico. (And yes, it seems they are getting more frequent.) Take Snowmageddon of 2010, when the Washington, D.C., region was hit by two back-to-back storms that dumped nearly 18 inches of snow and caused over 200,000 homes and businesses to lose power. Over the past 20 years there have been plenty of insane winter storms. “The fact that we’ve got COVID-19 which temporarily put a brake on emissions last year does not mean that the need for climate action is diminishing.Though winter storm Elliott will feel as if it’s trying to kill you by freezing your face off, it’s not likely to be the most severe winter storm the United States has experienced. “The fact that we had a relatively cold month does not negate climate change, it does not reverse the long-term trend in rising temperatures due to global warming, climate change”, she said. Nullis noted that average carbon dioxide concentrations in February were 416.75 parts per million, up from 413.4 parts per million in February 2020. Emissions keep risingĪccording to the latest data on carbon dioxide concentrations, greenhouse gas concentrations continue to rise.Ĭiting the Mauna Loa station in Hawaii - a benchmark reference station – Ms. This value represents the coldest monthly anomaly for almost six years, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. Globally, February 2021 was close to the 1991-2020 average, but 0.26 degrees Celsius warmer than the 1981-2010 average. We expect this trend to continue”, WMO said in a statement. “Cold records are becoming rarer, in contrast to heat temperature records and heatwaves. The UN agency also cautioned that although February was a relatively cold month, this does not negate the long-term warming trend from climate change. Cold records, ‘becoming rarer’įebruary temperatures were also well below the 1991-2020 average over much of the Russian Federation and North America, but they were well above average over parts of the Arctic, and from northwest Africa to southern Europe and China. Nullis added that no less than 62 all-time daily cold minimum temperature records were broken in the United States from February 11-16, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. ![]()
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