Coming Big Winter Storm Is, Of Course, Your Fault

PBS is just one of many who are turning a winter storm into Other People’s fault for driving fossil fueled vehicles, eating meat, and holding on to their Freedom

Still days out, and, really, things are changing enough that we won’t really know till sometime Friday, but, I do not want ice/freezing rain. Whatever happens, I blame you

Stretched polar vortex, moisture and a lack of sea ice all to blame for dangerous winter blast, meteorologists say

Warm Arctic waters and cold continental land are combining to stretch the dreaded polar vortex in a way that will send much of the United States a devastating dose of winter weather later this week with swaths of painful subzero temperatures, heavy snow and powerline-toppling ice.

Meteorologists said the eastern two-thirds of the nation is threatened with a winter storm that could rival the damage of a major hurricane and has some origins in an Arctic that is warming from climate change. They warn that the frigid weather is likely to stick around through the rest of January and into early February, meaning the snow and ice that accumulates will take a long time to melt.

Forecasts have the storm, expected to hit starting Friday, stretching from New Mexico to New England and across the Deep South. About 230 million people face temperatures of 20 degrees (-7 degrees Celsius) or colder and around 150 million are likely to be hit by snow and ice, with many Americans getting both, according to the National Weather Service.

The polar vortex, a patch of bitterly cold air that often stays penned up in northern Canada and Alaska, is being elongated by a wave in the upper atmosphere that goes back to a relatively ice-free part of the Arctic and snow-buried Siberia. As the bone-chilling temperatures sweep through the U.S., they’ll meet with moisture from off California and the Gulf of Mexico to set up crippling ice and snow in many areas.

So, too much warmth from ‘climate change’ and too much snow from ‘climate change’ is driving this storm, totally manmade, as opposed to the storms long ago which did the same and were totally natural. And, yes, there is supposed to be another big blast of winter weather next week, too.