Weather in the USA 2021.

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Reposted from the Cliff Mass Weather Blog

If you are living west of the Cascade crest of Oregon and Washington, tomorrow will be a day you will never forget.

The latest model runs, all at very high resolution, show even more profound extremes than previously predicted.  And the end of the event will be extraordinary, with temperatures falling by as much as 50F within a few hours.

Records Already Broken

   Many records fell yesterday, including a new all-time high temperature at Portland (108F) and daily or monthly records falling at dozens of stations.  But his is nothing compared to what will happen now.

Along the SW WA coast, some locations are 15-30F warmer, because of the switch to easterly (from east) winds–pushing away the cool, ocean air.  But look at the Portland area…many locations are 10-15F warmer because of increased offshore flow, with the air warming by compression as it sinks over the western slopes of the Cascades.

Tomorrow: The Day of Unimaginable Extremes
But tomorrow, it all goes horribly wrong.  The thermal trough moves northward and westward, pushing the strong easterly, downslope flow northward to over the central Cascades (see map for 11 AM Monday).  The sinking air will compress/warm as it sinks.

The burst of downslope, compressional heating will cause temperatures to warm beyond the experience of any living inhabitant of the region (see forecast temperatures at 5 PM Monday).  Temperatures will rise above 112F on the eastside of Puget Sound and above 100F for everyone more than a few miles from the water.  Portland will be similarly warm.  And so will the lower elevations of the Columbia Basin. Heat apocalypse.   What more can be said?

nd there is more…..after the temperature peaks around 5 PM it plummets steeply, like an insane meteorological roller coaster.   Some of you will be sweating in 110F temperates around dinner time, but looking for a light sweater around 6 AM.
The reasons for this profound shift?   The thermal trough will begin to move eastward over the Cascades, with an onshore marine push bringing in cool air off the Pacific (
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/06/27/even-more-extreme-extraordinary-record-highs-followed-by-perhaps-the-most-rapid-cooling-in-northwest-us-history/

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The global average temperature has dropped some 0.7C since the start of 2016. And looking ahead, climatic patterns look set to accelerate this cooling into 2022 — click below for more on that:




RARE JULY FROST AND RECORD COLD HIT MINNESOTA
While chilly summer lows up north aren’t particularly unusual, frost in July is a rare phenomenon, even across the northern stretches of Minnesota.

An Arctic air mass produced low temperatures in the 30s across much of northeast Minnesota on Thursday, reports mprnews.org.

The mercury plunged to 34F (1.1C) at Hibbing — a new record low.

While it fell as cold as 30F (-1.1C) at Brimson yesterday morning — also a new July 8 benchmark.

Below are a few other locales in and around NE Minnesota and NW Wisconsin that logged exceptional July lows on Thursday, data courtesy of National Weather Service Duluth:


AITKIN AIRPORT 34F (1.1C)
SUPERIOR QD NO. 4 31F (-0.6C)
6 WSW BEAVER BAY 32F (0C)
SKIBO RAWS 32F (0C)


These exceptional summer chills are due to an Arctic front which rode unusually-far south on the back of a weak and wavy meridional jet stream flow (a phenomenon that is expected to intensify during times of low solar activity–such as the historically low output the sun has been seeing for the past decade-or-so).
https://electroverse.net/record-cold-hits-us-s-america-corn-suffers-polar-blasts-strike-australia-and-nz/

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2021.
Flooding, baseball-sized hail and hurricane-force wind gusts, oh my! Yes, it was a couple of very active severe weather days July 9-10. A well-forecast upper-level disturbance deepened as it moved through a stubborn ridge in the West and into the Plains. Already working along a frontal boundary, strong thunderstorms quickly developed across Nebraska Friday, July 9, and clusters of storms continued south and east through Saturday, July 10, becoming much more isolated from Texas into the Lower Mississippi Valley July 11.

Residents around Omaha, Nebraska, saw some of the strongest winds as several reports of 75 to 90 miles per hour were sent into the Storm Prediction Center late Friday night, leading to about 200,000 customers losing power. Wind speeds that strong are equivalent to a Category 1 hurricane. Radar imagery showed an impressive and quick-moving bow echo right through town along and west of the Missouri River. Another bowing segment occurred at roughly the same time in southwest Iowa as well. More clusters provided extensive damage and strong wind gusts in central Nebraska and northeast Missouri.

Winds were not the only factor on Friday, though. Hail, some of it as large as baseballs over 3 inches in diameter, fell in a line northwest of Des Moines, Iowa, with more of the incredibly large hail scattered around Box Butte County, Nebraska, and Hancock County, Illinois.
https://www.sott.net/article/455388-Severe-storms-bring-flooding-baseball-sized-hail-hurricane-force-wind-gusts-to-US-Plains-Midwest

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It’s setting up to be a historically cool summer across much of the CONUS, particularly for the Midwest and the South, including states such as Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas… among many others.

The Pacific Northwest’s heatwave is the anomaly here, not the norm.

Vast swathes of the United States have been holding unusually-cool for the majority of 2021 — the nation as a whole suffered its coldest February since 1989, while Texas’ “big freeze” that month resulted in a deathtoll of 702 with reports of people freezing to death in their beds.

And even now, with mid-summer fast-approaching, two-thirds of the CONUS is still holding below average.

In fact, record summer chills are threatening to descend from the Arctic, as a mass of polar air rides anomalously-far south on the back of a low solar activity-induced “meridional” jet stream flow.

Looking at the latest GFS run (shown below), temperature departures some 16-20C below the seasonal average will continue to sweep central and southern regions as the month of July progresses.

Here’s the temperature outlook for Wednesday, July 14:
https://electroverse.net/record-summer-chills-sweep-the-us-as-sub-polar-cold-hits-africa/

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The propagandizing mainstream media simply won’t report on the ‘cold’, which means a compliant and indoctrinated public aren’t privy to the record summer chills currently sweeping Siberia, Europe and now the U.S.; nor are they aware of the harvest-wrecking freezes to have torn through South America and South Africa of late, or the frogs dying of the cold in Australia…
RECORD COLD SWEEPS EASTERN U.S.
Over the past 24 hours, a host of new low temperature records have tumbled across the Eastern United States.

From Texas up to South Dakota, and from Massachusetts down to Alabama, tens of daily low temperature records have fallen as an unusual mass of polar cold descended anomalously-far south on the back of a weak and wavy ‘meridional‘ jet stream flow.

Below are the new unofficial records, as visualized in a graphic created by coolwx.com:
https://electroverse.net/record-cold-sweeps-the-u-s-european-nations-suffered-a-colder-than-average-july/

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The Dixie Fire burning in two Northern California counties is now the largest single wildfire in recorded state history, exploding in size overnight as drought-stricken lands continue to fuel the flames.

The fire, which has burned for 23 days and forced mass evacuations, razed the Gold Rush town of Greenville on Thursday, destroying 91 buildings and damaging five others. Smoke from the blaze has blown to lower parts of Northern California, including the state capital of Sacramento where the air quality index on Friday reached "unhealthy" levels.

https://www.sott.net/article/456548-Dixie-Fire-becomes-largest-single-wildfire-in-California-history

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An unusually cold storm system will move into the Pacific Northwest this week, driving temperatures down some 6C-16C below the seasonal average, and bringing a substantial dusting of summer snow to the mountains.

The latest GFS runs (below) show a mass of Arctic air sinking down from Alaska and Canada, starting today.
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At least six people have died after flash flooding and tornadoes hit the north-east US, local media report.

Some people were trapped in the flooded basements of their homes, while one body was retrieved from a vehicle that was swept away.

The governors of New York and New Jersey declared a state of emergency, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called it a "historic weather event".

At least 8cm of rain fell in just one hour in New York's Central Park.

The US National Weather Service declared a flood emergency in New York City, Brooklyn and Queens, and issued tornado warnings for parts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.





A flood emergency, as opposed to a warning, is issued in "exceedingly rare situations when a severe threat to human life and catastrophic damage from a flash flood is happening or will happen soon", the NWS said.

Almost all New York City subway lines have been closed, and non-emergency vehicles were banned from the city's roads. Many flights and trains out of New York and New Jersey have been suspended.





The mayor of New Jersey city Passaic, Hector Lora, told US broadcaster CNN that the body of a man in his 70s had been recovered from a vehicle that had been swept away in the floods.

NBC New York later reported that one more person had died in New Jersey, and four others had died in New York City after becoming trapped in their basements.

Footage on social media showed water pouring into subway stations and people's homes, and flooded roads.



New York resident George Bailey told the BBC that he hadn't expected such severe flooding because he doesn't live on the coast.

"Right in the middle of dinner I hear gurgling, and the water's coming up out of the shower drain in our bathroom," he said. "I went to check the main water line in the utility room, and by the time I walked back into the living room there was nearly a foot of water in the room already. It was incredible how fast it came through."

The extreme weather has been caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida, which caused widespread devastation in southern Louisiana earlier this week.
https://www.sott.net/article/457678-Storm-Ida-Flash-flooding-in-New-York-and-New-Jersey-kills-6-New-rainfall-record-of-8cms-in-1-hour-just-weeks-after-previous-one-set-UPDATE-Tornados-ravage-New-Jersey

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Ida was the fifth-most powerful storm to hit the US when it reached Louisiana on Sunday as a category four hurricane, bringing maximum sustained winds of 150mph and causing tens of billions of dollars in damage. Most of the confirmed deaths have been in New Jersey and New York.

At least 64 people have died in the US after the country's northeastern states were battered by record-breaking rainfall brought by Storm Ida.

The deaths include at least four people who died from carbon monoxide poisoning in Louisiana, two dead in Mississippi after torrential rain caused a highway to collapse, and a number of people killed after their cars were swept away by floods - one of them a Connecticut state trooper.

According to state figures tracked by NBC News, there have been:

- 25 deaths in New Jersey

- 17 deaths in New York

- 11 deaths in Louisiana

- Five deaths in Pennsylvania

- Two deaths in Mississippi

- Two deaths in Alabama

- One death in Maryland

- One death in Connecticut

At least 11 of the deaths in New York were in flooded basement apartments, such as a family of three, including a toddler, who were not able to get out before the water rushed into their home.
https://www.sott.net/article/457827-Storm-Ida-Number-killed-rises-to-at-least-64-after-record-breaking-rainfall

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 CAP ALLON
ANCHORAGE TO TIE EARLIEST SNOWFALL ON RECORD TODAY
The higher elevations of Alaska are forecast a foot+ of global warming goodness beginning Thursday evening, while the city of Anchorage is expected to tie a 40-year-old record for early snow, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).

From 6PM Thursday through 1PM Friday, the weather service forecasts 6 to 12 inches of wet snow on the Anchorage Hillside and in the South Fork area of Eagle River, with localized dumps easily surpassing a foot.
https://electroverse.net/anchorage-to-tie-earliest-snowfall-on-record-migrants-freezing-to-death-as-early-season-cold-grips-europe/

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https://www.sott.net/article/458669-Early-heavy-snowfall-in-parts-of-Anchorage-Alaska-causes-outages-up-to-20-inches-of-snow-UPDATED
Snow across the Anchorage area Friday forced school closures, made roads slippery and caused power outages.

By Friday morning, unofficial snow totals included 13 inches on the Upper Hillside and about 4 inches in Eagle River, while much of the west side of Anchorage saw next to nothing, said Alan Shriver a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Anchorage.

The snow was continuing on the east side Friday morning, Shriver said, and was expected to continue mixed with rain throughout the day before tapering off by 8 p.m.

Power outages across the city were caused by the heavy, wet snow falling early in the season while many trees still have leaves -- heavy branches had fallen on lines, said Julie Hasquet, spokeswoman for Chugach Electric Association. Crews were working to restore power Friday morning.

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   RECORD OCTOBER COLD TO HIT WESTERN UNITED STATES…
Over the past 72 hours, a smattering of low temperature records have tumbled across the Western U.S. where the month of October is currently tracking well-below normal — a scenario that’s now set to intensify, according to latest GFS runs.

Letting the weather maps do the talking, temperature departures of as much as 20C below the season average will grip the western half of the CONUS this week.

Tuesday and Wednesday are looking particularly troublesome as powerful mass of Arctic air is forecast to ride unusually-far south on the back of a weak and wavy ‘meridional‘ jet stream flow:
   https://electroverse.net/record-oct-freezes-to-batter-us-and-europe-brits-banned-from-driving-in-the-snow-halo-cme-incoming/

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According to the National Weather Service, Tuesday’s average temperature of 43F marked the coldest day Seattle has ever seen during the first two weeks of October — the previous record was the 43.5F set on Oct 14, 1899 (the Centennial Minimum).

And when the city dipped to 36F early Tuesday morning, that was also the coldest October low in nearly two decades.

Furthermore, Pullman suffered its coldest Oct 13 on record yesterday: a low of 43F beat out the 44F from 1969.
https://electroverse.net/feet-of-snow-hit-the-rocky-mountains-coldest-early-oct-day-strikes-seattle-as-historic-cold-keeps-coal-prices-high/

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The nights in November’s first week, in particular, stood out for being cold, dipping into the 30s five straight times between November 3 and 7 — that actually marked the longest streak with lows in the 30s in November’s first week since 2002, and not since 1962 have there been more.

Just about all of the regions of the Washington suffered at least one instance of freezing temperatures, ending the growing season. At Dulles International Airport, for example, the mercury fell below freezing five straight mornings spanning November 3 to 7, dipping as low as 28 degrees on November 6 — that equaled the most on record for the locale in November’s first week.
https://electroverse.net/d-c-suffers-coldest-start-to-nov-arctic-plunge-to-engulf-us-sunspots-and-weather/

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The city experienced a record snowfall event on Thursday.
Many Anchorage residents were shoveling sidewalks and brushing off car windshields for the first time this year as the town got hit by its largest snowstorm of the season.

Some parts of town are reporting over a foot of snow, including 15 inches reported as of 8:25 a.m. on Huffman and Birch Road on the Anchorage Hillside, according to the National Weather Service. Valdez reported 19 inches of powder at 6:40 a.m.

The National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory through Anchorage and the Mat-Su Borough until 4 p.m. on Thursday. There's a winter storm warning in effect starting in Girdwood and covering the Southern Kenai Peninsula and Prince William Sound through 4 p.m. Thursday.
https://www.sott.net/article/460678-Storm-drops-up-to-19-inches-of-snow-in-Southcentral-Alaska

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ALASKA SUFFERS “PERSISTENT RECORD-SHATTERING COLD”
North America’s ‘winter chills’ have –thus far– remained trapped in the higher latitudes where the cold has proved persistent, concentrated and record-breaking.

‘Alaska had a November to remember’, is how natureworldnews.com puts it. The town of King Salmon, for example, suffered its coldest Nov on record, averaging just -15.6C (4F), and it wasn’t alone — according to National Weather Service data, many Alaskan locales suffered either their coldest or one of their coldest Novembers in recorded history last month.

Conversely, and despite a brief burst of cold this week, the CONUS has held pretty mild all fall — the warmth has actually been record-breaking at times. But rather than pointing the finger at man’s wholly irrelevant CO2 emissions, you need to instead accept that the lower-48 has been stuck on the ‘underside’ of the jet stream in recent weeks, meaning it has been open to tropical warmth being dragged up from the south as opposed to Arctic cold being pulled down from the north.
https://electroverse.net/alaskas-record-cold-dec-snow-pyrenees-depleting-gas/

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The nursing home's roof was ripped off and other buildings in town also were damaged, according to FOX 16.

Survivors were being directed to a local church to reunite with loved ones, the station reported.

Another fatality was reported at a Dollar General store in Leachville, according to The Weather Channel.

Kentucky

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear warned the commonwealth's residents Saturday that the tornado death toll there will exceed 70 after a candle factory in Mayfield with around 110 people inside was flattened.

He said a single tornado ripped across the state for more than 200 miles.

Earlier, the governor declared a state of emergency after major tornado damage was reported in the western part of the state.

Beshear called it the "most devastating tornado event in our state's history."

"It is indescribable," he continued. "The level of devastation is unlike anything I have ever seen."

"Loss of life is expected," in western Kentucky, the Kentucky State Police wrote on Twitter.

Southwest Kentucky saw "twin tornadoes" strike around 2:20 a.m. near Bowling Green, WDRB reported.

"People that weren't even official first responders been up all night trying to help their friends and neighbors and family," Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., told "Fox & Friends Weekend." "Just a devastating thing to go through the community and just something that you hope you never have to witness."

In Madisonville, Kentucky, a freight-train derailment was reported shortly after midnight, related to severe weather. No injuries were immediately reported, a spokeswoman for rail company CSX Corp. told Fox News.

Tennessee

At least two people were confirmed dead in Obion County, Tennessee, after dangerous storms tore through the area, FOX 17 of Nashville reported. No details were immediately available on how the deaths occurred.
Social media offered live updates from the affected areas as well as issuing warnings to those further up the storm track:







The fallout:



THE largest and deadliest tornado outbreak in the US occurred 10 years ago in April 2011. Yesterday's outbreak saw only about a tenth of that in terms of the number of tornadoes, but it may top it in terms of fatalities, and the intensity of particular tornadoes, like the one that appears to be the first ever to track through 4 states...
https://www.sott.net/article/461833-Record-breaking-tornado-outbreak-hits-US-At-least-3-dozen-tornadoes-form-including-monster-that-dragged-4-states-At-least-100-killed-UPDATES

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A parched Western U.S. has been buffeted by heavy precipitation this week, precipitation which fell as record-breaking snow across the region’s higher elevations as storm systems collided with descending Arctic air.

As I reported yesterday, snow has buffeted California’s Sierra Nevada this week, with as much as 8 feet has accumulating along the mountain chain, busting regional records. However, as the storm tracked east and entered the state of Nevada, it took out a number of historic snowfall records for the time of year.

Snow fell across Nevada on Tuesday, with the city of Elko picking up 3 inches. More impressive totals were registered elsewhere, though, including in the central Nevada towns of Ely, Eureka, Winnemucca and Tonopah, which all smashed snowfall records.

Winnemucca reported 5.5 inches of snow as of early Monday evening — a reading which busted the town’s previous all-time record for the date, the 3.4 inches set way back in 1889
https://electroverse.net/snowfall-records-from-the-1800s-fall-in-nevada-california-just-as-new-bogus-study-claims-no-snow-in-35-years/

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The UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab logged one last inch late on Dec 31, taking December 2021’s total to 214 inches (5.44m).

The highest ever recorded.




Historic totals were also registered at central California’s Yosemite National Park.

171 inches (4.43m) of snow was reported at Tuolumne Meadows, smashing the area’s previous all-time record of 143 inches (3.63m) set back in 1996 (solar minimum of cycle 22).

A myriad of benchmarks were also broken at nearby Lake Tahoe.

Here, some 5 ski resorts have already picked up more snow than all of last season:
https://electroverse.net/record-december-snow-extreme-cold-engulfs-na-scandinavia-set-for-49f/