All of America, not just the Deep South, has been reeling under the effects of this deadly Arctic blast. Peter Sinks, located just 20 miles northeast of Logan, recorded a temperature of minus 55 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday night, solidifying its claim as one of the coldest locations in the lower 48 United States.
The data is now in plain sight, and hundreds of millions of people’s cold experiences are too embarrassing for anyone to examine as extreme cold invades the U.S. It is impossible to imagine the world boiling these days, but not so difficult to imagine it freezing. No matter what you call it, Siberian Express, Polar Vortex, or Blue Norther, it is frigid air we are talking about. Cold air because it is cold. Not because it is hot or because of any name given to it. We have record cold, not record heat. You have to have a high school education to understand this.
Scientists noticed something surprising: a sudden change
from very warm conditions in the late 1300s to unprecedented
cold conditions in the early 1400s, only 20 years later.
Blue Northers feature a sharp downward crash in temperature – often 40 degrees or more in minutes – accompanied by strong, chilly north winds. In these cases, one could go from wearing t-shirts and shorts outside to needing a winter jacket. Blue Northers can move at forward speeds of 40 mph or faster, making the trip from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico in less than two days. Temperatures are touching 30 degrees below normal, with historic blizzards blanketing the Gulf Coast and paralyzing the region.
Global warming proponents are probably freaking out with all this cold and probably trying to tie this record-breaking freeze to their beloved theory. It was about uniform planetary warming for decades: ‘forever hotter.’ Real-world observations have refused to cooperate, leaving hundreds of millions in the northern hemisphere in the cold. It’s more like a billion cold souls.
Everyone knows about the historic snow storms in the South that caused chaos, even in Florida. It is interesting to see snow on Florida beaches and resorts. In Milton, Florida, 8.8 inches of snow have accumulated, setting a new all-time state record, more than doubling the 4 inches from March 1954. This is also considered the state’s highest snow total in over two centuries since the blizzard of January 1800 (at least). A total of 6.5 inches (and counting) has been posted at Pensacola, breaking the record there.
Hundreds Of Cold Records Fall Across The U.S.
Hundreds of low-temperature records fell from Washington to Alabama, from Massachusetts to Arizona (to Mexico, even). The standouts were probably Louisiana, with Acadia AP tanking to 6F (-14.4C), tying the record from Feb 13, 1899, and also Kansas, which had Topeka at -12F (-24.4C) Wednesday morning, pipping the daily record of -11F (-23.9C) set back in 1888. And those were cold times. The cold spilled down into Mexico and the Caribbean.
And U.S. Freeze, Part Two is coming as that ‘polar vortex’ threatens to return to America in February.
South Korea Sees 4.25 Feet Of Snow In 2 Days
England On For 7th Coldest January Since 1659
After asserting that ‘freezing winters were highly unlikely now due to gLoBaL wArMiNg,’ the UK’s Met Office has some explaining to do: January 2025 is proving not only very cold but historically so. To Jan 14, the Central England Temperature (CET) record—the world’s longest-running temperature dataset, dating back to 1659—shows an average of just 2C. This marks an anomaly of -1.8C below the 1960–1990 average (a cold era, by the way).
Climate Change Freaks Blame Everything on Climate Change
In the wake of the Los Angeles fires, which have claimed more than two dozen lives and already destroyed 10,000-plus structures, debates rage over the cause of the blazes. While many argue that the wildfires stem from climate change, an abundance of evidence suggests a more straightforward explanation: bureaucratic dysfunction. Several residents in the area decided to risk $150 fines (the penalty for removing brush from state parklands without a license) and removed the highly flammable brush on their own.
And now California lawmakers, led by eco-zealots like State Senator Scott Wiener, are pushing to let wildfire victims sue oil companies for damages, introducing legislation (SB 222) “to ensure oil companies pay for the climate-fueled disasters that are burning and flooding California.”
Are We on the Brink of a ‘New Little Ice Age?’
By the 16th and 17th centuries, northern Europe had left its medieval warm period and was languishing in what is sometimes called the Little Ice Age. Starting in the early 14th Century, average temperatures in the British Isles cooled by 2°C, with similar anomalies recorded across Europe.
When we think about Ice Ages, we imagine a slow transition into a colder climate on a long time scale. Indeed, studies of the past million years indicate a repeatable cycle of Earth’s climate going from warm periods (“interglacial”, as we are experiencing now) to glacial conditions.
Munnar, a hill station in Kerala, India, has reported freezing
lows of 0C (32F) — a rare occurrence for the tropical region.
The period of these shifts is related to changes in the tilt of Earth’s rotational axis (41,000 years), changes in the orientation of Earth’s elliptical orbit around the sun, called the “precession of the equinoxes” (23,000 years), and to changes in the shape (more round or less round) of the elliptical orbit (100,000 years). The theory that orbital shifts caused the waxing and waning of ice ages was first pointed out by James Croll in the 19th Century and developed more fully by Milutin Milankovitch in 1938.
Blizzards Batter Russia’s Far East
A severe winter storm is hitting Sakhalin, located in Russia’s Far East, unleashing heavy snowfall and strong winds. The harsh weather has caused significant transport disruptions, with rail services and flights cancelled. Many business are also closed, and local authorities have moved schools to distance learning as a precaution.
Jeff Thomas writes, “The Climate Change concept was invented out of whole fabric by the Club of Rome, created in 1968 by David Rockefeller. It was originally called “Global Cooling,” as, at that time, the Earth was passing through one of its cyclic cooling periods. However, that period soon came to an end. The Earth entered a global warming period. So, the same “science” that was used for Global Cooling was then attributed without any change whatever to the new “Global Warming.”
“When that cycle ended, and the proponents of Global Warming again had egg on their faces for pushing warming during a new periodic cooling cycle, the proponents finally got clever and renamed it “Climate Change.” From that day forward, any flood, drought, hurricane, tornado or variation in the ice caps has immediately been blamed on “increased Climate Change,” even though such occurrences have been with us forever and will be with us forever,” concluded Thomas.
Paris Climate Accord
President Donald Trump once again withdrew the United States from the Paris climate deal. The move reflects Trump’s skepticism about global warming, which he has called a hoax, and fits in with his broader agenda to unfetter U.S. oil and gas drillers from regulation so they can maximize output. “I’m immediately withdrawing from the unfair, one-sided Paris climate accord rip-off,” he said before signing the order. “The United States will not sabotage our industries while China pollutes with impunity,” Trump said.
Energy Problems Just Beginning
PJM Interconnection, the operator of the largest power grid in the U.S., has issued a Level 1 emergency alert for Wednesday in response to rising electricity demand driven by extreme cold weather. The grid spans from Washington, D.C., to Illinois and is preparing for energy use to approach levels not seen in a decade+. The Eastern U.S. is experiencing dangerously low temperatures, prompting PJM to issue a maximum generation alert. This move allows the operator to curtail electricity exports to neighboring grids to maintain reliability.
German authorities have issued snow and ice alerts owing to the recent “severe cold weather.” The freeze has led to a significant increase in heating demand, causing power consumption to approach an all-time high. Transportation has also been disrupted, with flights delayed at Leipzig and Cologne Bonn airports–to name just two.
Germany’s energy woes are a masterclass in policy failure, in ideology trumping logic. The country’s reckless pursuit of unreliable renewables and its ill-conceived decision to phase out nuclear power has left it vulnerable to energy shortages. Wind and solar, touted as the panacea for Germany’s energy needs, falter precisely when they are needed most—during long, frigid winters when the sun is scarce and the winds are still. Instead of a robust, diversified energy strategy, Germany, like most Western economies, bowed to the whims of fanatics, betting on intermittent sources that consistently fail to deliver.
Wind Power Below 1%
The UK’s obsession with wind and solar is crippling its economy, driving up energy costs while delivering no environmental benefits. Last week’s collapse in wind power generation underscores the folly of relying on something as fickle as the weather for a critical resource: electricity. Output tanked to less than 1% of the country’s supply due to an atmospheric lull—a “dunkelflaute”—and exposed the UK’s energy policy as disastrously short-sighted. The UK’s 12,000 wind turbines, touted as the backbone of a green revolution, produced 200 megawatts at their lowest point—less than 2% of their capacity. Winter demand in the UK is around 50GW.
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