Will the Arctic Cold Front Cause Severe Weather and Damage to Crops?

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The discussion centers around varying winter weather experiences across different regions. An Arctic cold front is expected to bring severe conditions, including strong winds and potential blizzard-like conditions, leading to dangerously low wind chills in some areas. Participants share personal weather updates, with some experiencing significant snowfall while others report mild conditions. Notably, areas in the Midwest and parts of the UK are facing heavy snow, while regions like Western Washington and parts of Florida are seeing typical winter temperatures without snow. Concerns about the impact of cold weather on crops, infrastructure challenges in handling snow, and personal anecdotes about coping with the cold are prevalent. The conversation also touches on the contrasting experiences of those in warmer climates, highlighting the diverse impacts of winter weather across the globe.
  • #51
It will be -11F tonight, without the wind chill factor. This is crazy.
 
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  • #52
Cyclovenom said:
Cold? oh... I'm at the Caribbean at the moment for winter break. I was just swimming in the beach, and drinking some pina coladas.. I think tomorrow I'll go surfing again.. Anyways, enjoy the cold, and stay warm..

what a nice optimistic attitude!
 
  • #53
Today was a bit warmer than the previous few days. Around -23 (-9.4 F) at 8:30 and -20 C (-4 F) at 15:00. Here's hoping it rises further, though I'm beginning to get used to the chill. :rolleyes:
 
  • #54
rewebster said:
what a nice optimistic attitude!

It's easy to be optimistic when you're on some Caribbean beach with a pina colada :-p. Maybe we all should pay a visit to Cyclovenom!
 
  • #55
lisab said:
It's easy to be optimistic when you're on some Caribbean beach with a pina colada :-p. Maybe we all should pay a visit to Cyclovenom!

OK---would Jamaica be good, or... where ?
 
  • #56
Still unseasonably warm here. This weekend we'll have highs in the teens, and that's the only "cold" on the horizon. Generally (before the last 2-3 years) we'd have stretches of weather with daily highs in the single digits or lower. I fear this will be another snowy winter if we don't start getting some nice dry arctic air-masses pushing through.
 
  • #57
turbo--



I think the front that is over us (midwest) is heading your direction
 
  • #58
rewebster said:
turbo--



I think the front that is over us (midwest) is heading your direction
I don't think it will make it this far north.

According to Inaccu-WeatherTM, apart from some light snow this afternoon (dusting to an inch, probably), we're looking at sun and daily temps in the mid-to-upper 20s for the next week. That is unseasonably warm here.
 
  • #59
We're going to have wind chills of -35F tonight. It says at a wind chill of -30F frostbite will occur in 10 minutes.

Current temperature maps.
 

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  • #60
Hey!, I was at Minnesota until Dec 23rd, and that was cold enough... hahah
 
  • #61
When I lived in Minnesota, the actual temps (not wind chill) got down to -35 F a couple of times----


talk about layering clothes---schools didn't close either
 
  • #62
rewebster said:
When I lived in Minnesota, the actual temps (not wind chill) got down to -35 F a couple of times----


talk about layering clothes---schools didn't close either
Schools have been closed here all week, even churches.
 
  • #63
rewebster said:
When I lived in Minnesota, the actual temps (not wind chill) got down to -35 F a couple of times----talk about layering clothes---schools didn't close either
Same here. It was often colder than 30 below when my buddy and I showed up for our ski-patrol jobs. The lift towers were very tall (over the tree-line) to clear the very steep terrain and head-walls, and the wind was always blowing up there. Luckily my patrol partner was a very pretty lady and we huddled together (it was warmer that way). For safety's sake, the operations manager wouldn't let us on the lift until the temps got up near 20 below, which put us in quite a bind time-wise because at least 2 patrol members had to ski every trail looking for hollows and drifts that needed to be groomed before we could let paying customers on the lifts. Overnight the winds often either piled up rock-hard drifts, or scooped out hollows leaving abrupt drop-offs.
 
  • #64
Amsterdam NL was hit by winter heavily Yesterday. All traffic ceased to an halt it was http://www.hoofddorpsecourant.nl/page/Binnenland/Buitenland/Files-Amsterdam-pas-s-nachts-opgelost.476203.news well into the night.

A Temperature record was shattered:

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'Gem.' = 'Average'
 
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  • #66
My thermometer reads 25°F. Feels... *puts on shades* ...colder.
 
  • #68
Haha, I don't envy you people who live in countries that aren't equipped to deal with things like this :p Even though we have gotten tons of snow in Sweden all the roads are fine etc.
 
  • #69
Klockan3 said:
Haha, I don't envy you people who live in countries that aren't equipped to deal with things like this :p Even though we have gotten tons of snow in Sweden all the roads are fine etc.
So true. I would love to have a storm politely limit itself to 6-8" for a change. Still, we're equipped to handle much, much more simply because it's a fact of life. Most homeowners have all the tools they need, and apart from consumables like salt, fuel, etc, don't have to rush around trying to buy shovels, scoops, and roof-rakes when we are forecast to get a couple of feet of the white stuff.
 
  • #70
We got a really nice 4 inches yesterday, its beautiful, like frosting on a cake. A really cold arctic blast on the way for tomorrow, and I'm going sledding!
 
  • #71
hypatia said:
We got a really nice 4 inches yesterday, its beautiful, like frosting on a cake. A really cold arctic blast on the way for tomorrow, and I'm going sledding!
You Nawtheners are CRAZY! :-p

I was born and raised in Houston, TX. I'm not made for this kind of cold. I can't stand heat either, which is why I moved away.
 
  • #72
Evo said:
I was born and raised in Houston, TX. I'm not made for this kind of cold.
I can tell. When you comment on waht's picture, all I could think of was "huh?" I would take a "snow-storm" like that once a week all winter, GLADLY.
 
  • #73
hypatia said:
We got a really nice 4 inches yesterday

Judging from the mail I am getting on the daily basis, calling 4 inches nice is an exagerration.
 
  • #74
turbo-1 said:
I can tell. When you comment on waht's picture, all I could think of was "huh?" I would take a "snow-storm" like that once a week all winter, GLADLY.
Well we don't have many trees to block the wind. I had something like this behind my car this morning.
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  • #75
I don't get any snow at all. Just what is still lying around after last snow fall. Probably a good thing, since I don't want to worry about mowing the stuff away in this cold.
 
  • #76
It's about 12-14 F, on the way down to some lower number tonight. We had between 1-2 inches this morning and another inch during the afternoon.

Tonight we did Japanese takeout - entres of eel, salmon, and chicken and beef teriyaki. Each came with a salad with ginger sauce, and miso soup. Hot miso soup is great on a cold night. The eel and salmon came with wasabi and pickled ginger root, which is great if one has cold or sinus congestion.
 
  • #77
Evo said:
You Nawtheners are CRAZY! :-p

I was born and raised in Houston, TX. I'm not made for this kind of cold. I can't stand heat either, which is why I moved away.

Where you at evo?? somewhere in the middle of the USA? close to the coast?
 
  • #78
Evo said:
Wow, that's a lot of snow.

That's pretty much a highlight of the year, unless it's the freak year. Most roads get cleared quickly and are salted, so it's safe to drive.
Well we don't have many trees to block the wind. I had something like this behind my car this morning.

That's some serious snow drift.

Astronuc said:
Tonight we did Japanese takeout - entres of eel, salmon, and chicken and beef teriyaki. Each came with a salad with ginger sauce, and miso soup. Hot miso soup is great on a cold night. The eel and salmon came with wasabi and pickled ginger root, which is great if one has cold or sinus congestion.

Sounds good. Did you have Sake? I hear it's great to keep you warm.
 
  • #79
Cyclovenom said:
Where you at evo?? somewhere in the middle of the USA? close to the coast?
Kansas City, where it says -17F
 
  • #80
Evo said:
You Nawtheners are CRAZY! :-p

I was born and raised in Houston, TX. I'm not made for this kind of cold. I can't stand heat either, which is why I moved away.

You'd love Seattle, Evo...not too hot, not too cold, not many bugs, pretty mountains and ocean...:smile:
 
  • #81
lisab said:
You'd love Seattle, Evo...not too hot, not too cold, not many bugs, pretty mountains and ocean...:smile:
I know, I have a good friend that lives in Portland, that's nice too.
 
  • #82
well, besides the forecast that its supposed to get up into the 30's next week, I can tell in the morning and evening that the days are getting longer already.
 
  • #83
Evo said:
Kansas City, where it says -17F
Grow a pair. You plaines-staters love to pretend that you are living in conditions that the rest of us of have to buckle down and live with. Wow. The wind-speed can make it feel cold. Is this rocket science? :biggrin:
 
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  • #84
waht said:
Sounds good. Did you have Sake? I hear it's great to keep you warm.
I thought about it, but decided not to drink alcohol tonight. I did have some night hot tea while the food was being prepared.
 
  • #85
lisab said:
You'd love Seattle, Evo...not too hot, not too cold, not many bugs, pretty mountains and ocean...:smile:

Not to mention the fact that both mountains and ocean can be rarely seen because it rains.
 
  • #86
Borek said:
Not to mention the fact that both mountains and ocean can be rarely seen because it rains.
Thus the popularity of book-stores and coffee-shops.
 
  • #87
Borek said:
... because it rains.

Uh... that is liquid sunshine. Please get with the program here!


Every now and then that big, scary, bright thing appears in the sky. Thank goodness it doesn't happen too often.
 
  • #88
Ivan Seeking said:
Uh... that is liquid sunshine. Please get with the program here!


Every now and then that big, scary, bright thing appears in the sky. Thank goodness it doesn't happen too often.
Send it here! We have seen far too little of the light-monster the past couple of years.
 
  • #89
Today we have sun and have just broken through 15 degrees. The wind is probably 30mph or so with higher gusts, but altogether, it's a pleasant January day. BTW, this is the "cold snap" that was forecast for our weekend. I was a clerk/asst superintendent on a large construction project during the mid-70s, and one of my duties was to record high and low temperatures every day. For a two-week period, the temperature never got up above the single digits, and every night the lows were around 20 below or lower. This "cold snap" is a heat wave, in comparison.
 
  • #90
In the east we have been escaping the Midwest cold weather. However! a high pressure system to the north will push a lot of that fright air in for a week or so beginning over the weekend.

Temp here right now -0.2°C with light snow pellets.
The low temp last night was -5.3°C.

I dislike the temps above zero in the day and below at night. It tends to freeze up my weather station anemometer.

Won't have to be concerned next week though the average temps here should be -10°C day, -15°C night.

Arg! come on spring...
 
  • #91
turbo-1 said:
Send it here! We have seen far too little of the light-monster the past couple of years.

Sometimes when it shows itself after a long absence, I get an urge to throw a bone at it, like the apes reacting to the Monolith in 2001 - A Space Odyssey.
 
  • #92
it just got to 8° F here---


when it gets cold (high pressure) the sun comes out more often, but -whew- what a price to pay to have the sun shine
 
  • #93
It was 0°F this morning at 0700. Now it's a balmy 24°F with the sun shining and sky is partly cloudy.
 
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  • #96
Borek said:
Rabbit looks like frozen.

No he is just stoned.
 
  • #97
It was snowing for the last three days here.

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  • #98
dlgoff said:
Well we don't have many trees to block the wind. I had something like this behind my car this morning.
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I think it slid off his roof.

Lots of 20 deg F weather here in NJ. Occasionally it will get into the mid 30's F. Still, it's colder than I remember it being the past few years, but I think we have it better than most of you in this thread. Hang in there, and don't send it here.
 
  • #99
Borek, you could build an igloo.
 

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