Motzei Shabbos Saturday night February 4. 2023 5783
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An Arctic airmass of unbelievable cold over spread the East Coast northeast, the New England area earlier today last night. This is going to be followed by much warmer temperatures as we head into tomorrow and Monday. This airmass broke records all over the place in the New England area. Windchill dropped to 108 degrees below zero that's 108 below zero in Mount Washington, New Hampshire. We have that is the coldest ever reported there. Temperatures across the Northeast reached lows that have not been seen in decades. The National Weather Service office in Boston described the cold as a historic Arctic outbreak for the modern era. And they said this is about as cold as it will ever get. On Friday, the National Weather Service said This is once in a generation event. But here's the thing that's truly unbelievable. This is something that I've never heard of before that type first of all, the type of coal that happened in the Northeast in the New England area is the type of an annual cold that or may perhaps not annual, but is the type of coal that's reported in the wintertime in the places like North Dakota and Minnesota, places like that we've seen cold like this earlier this year, in places Minnesota and North Dakota the very end of December. But this is something that does not normally occur in New England. It is not nearly as cold in New England, the weather extremes are not nearly as cold temperatures of 10 degrees below zero was reported in Boston earlier today. That's a record eight degrees below zero or reported on Friday in Boston. That's also a record. And that's extremely cold for that city. You know, here in the Midwest, we get temperatures that cold almost annually, the Chicago Illinois area on average sees the coldest temperature of the year near seven below zero. And it's not something that happens in Boston. So this is something very intense for that area. It's really in some cases, we had temperatures that went into the 30s below zero in it places in New York. 30 is below zero. That's certainly comparable to stuff that would happen in the Midwest. But here's something that never heard up before. Frost quakes were reported, says the Washington Post in Maine, the temperatures were so extreme in Maine, people were reporting frost quakes. These are earthquake like tremors which are caused by rapidly plummeting temperatures. It causes the water trapped in cracks in the ground to expand. There were reports of trees exploding. Trees were exploding, which was the result of quickly expanding water stored in SAP reports the Washington Post, some in the northern New England area, we're hearing sounds like gunshots throughout the night. In upstate New York, the actual temperature dropped to 38 degrees below zero. There were also winter waterspouts reported on Lake champion and over the open Atlantic. Canada looks like a tornado resembles a tornado. It's more of a devilish vortex of stream frigid air blowing over the comparatively mild waters which also caused the rare type of fog known as Arctic sea smoke to form that stuff we've seen here in Chicago on Lake Michigan. This Arctic snap is the result of two low pressure systems which were to the north. There was a low pressure system pushing east through Ontario. There was an Arctic high pressure over the northern winds. This caused an area of polar air from near the Hudson Bay to move south east. At the higher altitudes, we have a piece of the polar vortex, which is a pool of frigid air. That one dived from near Hudson Bay, Canada directly over main. Here's something that's also amazing. It's the stratosphere, which is usually about 20,000 feet above the surface. About four to 12 miles up, dropped and actually dropped to less than a mile the top of Mount Washington was in a completely different invite atmosphere. It was within the stratosphere were one would have thought there would have been enormous amounts of ozone if that was the case, but that was not reported. The top of Mount Washington 6288 feet, temperatures are headed into the 40s and 50s. over much of the New England area, actually Boston probably low 50s for Sunday and Monday. In some cases, this is a rise of 70 degrees for places in New England within a 24 hour period.

You have been listening to the podcast weather with enthusiasm this trailer was updated at the very end of January 2023. We have two things going on. We have evaporative cooling, and we also have dynamic cooling, and the two are coming together to produce a major snow storm in the Deep South. The only time you could blame cold air on climate change is when it's a result of the stratosphere warming, which is what causes all the arctic air to come down. So the way to get a six in snow storm here in the Midwest and in the Southern Plains has always been you need three ingredients. It's hard to believe the numbers that are being forecasted
several additional feet of snow is expected by Monday morning.
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