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"It will be warmer in Antarctica than it is in Des Moines." Everyone affected by the #PolarVortex2019 please don't take any chances. Take in ppl who don't have heat, and please, bring your pets in! #TuesdayThoughts
nytimes.com/2019/01/29/us/…
nytimes.com/2019/01/29/us/…
2-"CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The polar vortex is bringing dangerously low temperatures to a wide swath of the Midwest, forcing schools and universities to close and leading the governors of Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin to declare emergencies. Here are some of the salient facts
3-"about this brutal cold front. The Midwest will be colder on Wednesday than parts of Antarctica and Alaska. The high on Wednesday in Des Moines will be a bitter minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit. Wednesday’s high at McMurdo Station in Antarctica will be a comparatively mild 17
4-"degrees, according to weather.com. Fairbanks, Alaska, will also be warmer during the day on Wednesday than Des Moines, with a high of 4 degrees. More than 50 million people will be affected A large expanse of states, from the Dakotas to western Pennsylvania, are
5-"under wind chill warnings or advisories from the National Weather Service. You could get frostbite in five minutes. With wind chills in Minneapolis-St. Paul expected to be as low as minus 45 to minus 65 degrees from Tuesday night through Thursday morning, the National
6-"Weather Service is warning people that any exposed skin could get frostbite in as little as five minutes. The last time Chicago faced temperatures this low was more than 30 years ago. The predicted low in Chicago on Wednesday night is minus 26 degrees Fahrenheit. According to
7-"the National Weather Service, the last time it was that cold in Chicago was on Jan. 20, 1985, when Chicago set its all-time low temperature record of minus 27 degrees. With the wind chill, it could feel like minus 55. Thousands of flights are being canceled. On Monday, 1,986
8-"flights were canceled across the country, including more than 1,400 that were supposed to fly into or out of Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway airports, according to Flightaware.com. On Tuesday, as of late afternoon, more than 1,800 flights had been canceled, including more
9-" than 500 into or out of Chicago. Around half of the flights into and out of Midway were canceled on Tuesday. Hundreds of schools are being closed.
Detroit and Milwaukee closed all public schools on Tuesday. Minneapolis has closed schools both Tuesday and Wednesday. Chicago
Detroit and Milwaukee closed all public schools on Tuesday. Minneapolis has closed schools both Tuesday and Wednesday. Chicago
10-"Public Schools canceled all after-school activities on Tuesday and all classes and activities on Wednesday. Many other public, private and parochial schools across the region have closed, as well. Hundreds of thousands of college students will be hunkering down. Many colleges
11-"across the Midwest have canceled classes during the cold snap, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Michigan State University,
12-"the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of South Dakota and Kent State University." ~Kate Taylor, NYT, 1/29/19
2-"As climate change heats up the planet, winters are warming faster than summers. But on days when the temperature tumbles below freezing, it leaves many people wondering, “If the Earth is getting warmer, how can winter still be so cold?” President Trump is among them, and he
3-"weighs in frequently. He tweeted this on Jan. 28: "In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can’t last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on
4-"with Global Waming? Please come back fast, we need you!"
"The answer lies in the difference between local weather and climate. Climate refers to how the atmosphere acts over a long period of time, while weather describes what’s happening on a much shorter time scale.
"The answer lies in the difference between local weather and climate. Climate refers to how the atmosphere acts over a long period of time, while weather describes what’s happening on a much shorter time scale.
5-"The climate can be thought of, in a way, as the sum of long periods of weather. Or, to use an analogy Mr. Trump might appreciate, weather is how much money you have in your pocket today, whereas climate is your net worth. A billionaire who has forgotten his wallet one day is
6-"not poor, anymore than a poor person who lands a windfall of several hundred dollars is suddenly rich. What matters is what happens over the long term. Even on a day when it is colder than average where you live, the world as a whole is frequently warmer than average, which
7-"you can see for yourself on these daily maps from the University of Maine. Here is an example from a period of unusually frigid weather in December 2017, when parts of the United States were 15 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit colder than average, but the world as a whole was about
8-"0.9 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the 1979-2000 average:
9-"While climate scientists expect that the world could warm, on average, roughly two to seven degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century — depending on how quickly greenhouse-gas emissions rise — they don’t expect that to mean the end of winter altogether. Record low
10-"temperatures will still occur; they’ll just become rarer over time. One 2009 study found that the United States saw roughly as many record highs as record lows in the 1950s, but by the 2000s there were twice as many record highs as record lows. Severe cold snaps were still
11-"happening, but they were becoming less common. Some recent cold spells have been caused by a dreaded weather system called the polar vortex. There’s growing evidence to suggest that the polar vortex is appearing outside the Arctic more frequently, because of changes in the
12-"jet stream that are attributed to the warming atmosphere. These changes help frigid air escape from the Arctic and swoop southward. Politicians have tried to use cold snaps to prove a point before. Senator James Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, brought a snowball to the Senate
13-"floor in February 2015 as evidence that the Earth was not warming. Mr. Trump, who has repeatedly denied the science of climate change, has recognized the threats where some of his properties are involved. His golf resort in Ireland intends to build two sea walls and cited the
14-" risks of global warming in one of its applications for the construction. Mr. Trump has made a habit of airing his climate skepticism on Twitter, posting comments on “climate change” or “global warming” more than 100 times since 2011. Before his presidency, he called climate
15-" change a hoax and claimed the idea was perpetuated by the Chinese. In 2018, he backed off that claim, saying: “I don’t think there’s a hoax. I do think there’s probably a difference. But I don’t know that it’s man-made.”
16-"The United States government and hundreds of scientific organizations agree that human activities are primarily responsible for global warming."
~Kendra Pierre-Louis, NYT, 1/28/19
~Kendra Pierre-Louis, NYT, 1/28/19
