Global Cooling Envelops Northern Hemisphere
Bitter cold, high winds chill Midwest, East [here]
Bone-numbing cold spread Monday from the Midwest to the East, forcing millions to bundle up and scurry from place to place. Snowfall in northern New England topped 40 inches in one town, and travel remained disrupted as the days ticked town toward Christmas. …
Temperatures in Chicago were expected to be higher Monday—but still only in the single digits.
Will Canada see its first white Christmas since ‘71? [here]
The first day of winter brought wind-chill warnings, snow and a bevy of storms to cities across Canada on Sunday, potentially laying the groundwork for the first cross-country white Christmas in nearly four decades. …
Phillips said some parts of the country are seeing snowfall amounts that have outpaced last year’s record and near-record totals at this point in the season.
Severe Cold Wave to Hit Europe [here]
The development of a major blocking high pressure system over the north Atlantic and its subsequent backing west is about to throw most of Europe into the coldest winter weather pattern in many a year. In fact, Temps over the next month or so are liable to average 6-10 degrees F below normal over the center part of the continent …
I wish to point out, with no malice intended, that the two countries who have major scientific organizations that have been pushing the global warming idea, Britain and the UKMET and the US with NOAA have been burned by the cold that has developed here. NOAA had a December forecast for a warm central US for November that they were forced to revise and the UKMET forecast for a rather bland winter for Europe speaks for itself. It’s anything but bland, whether it averages out near the average or not, because what is coming has not been seen in years.
Beijing’s coldest December day in 57 years [here]
Winter truly arrived in Beijing yesterday with the highest temperature of the day down to minus 8.8 F. Media reports say it was “the coldest day in December in the last 57 years.”