January 2014 Arctic Outbreak (house, daily, Alabama, Houston)

[Kamsack]

Grand Forks ND (in town) climate station at NWS office/Univ of North Dakota. Just a shy less departure... -18.2 we have had a few warm ups with 24 on the 3rd.... average temp for the month thru the 6th -11.2 F

[Cambium]

Wind chills below 0 last hour at JFK and LGA marks 30 consecutive hours that the wind chill was sub-zero! 31 hrs for EWR

Warmer in Anchorage Alaska (25°) than Milton Florida (18°).

Current wind chills: -5ºF in NYC, in Tampa, FL: 30ºF. And that's an improvement from yesterday

[Cambium]

Current temps/wind chills down south. Still 10-25 below normal East of Texas. Pretty sure some ponds and still lakes are starting to get a frozen layer on top, down to New Orleans and northern Florida

[thatguydownsouth]

North Florida here and all my effing plants are dead. We havent had a sustained temp this low in a decade or so. Guess Ill be spending a few weekends at Lowes this spring.

[Mac15]

For a fresh water lake to freeze over you need about -7c for a couple of nights.

That is how cold it has to be for the lake on the hill above my house to freeze solid. Then about -10c for a week to freeze solid.

[PatrickMd]

Which hardly ever happens as you live in mild Northern Ireland.

[phonelady61]

this is the first time in twenty years that Ohio was below zero ugh !!! God I hope we get to move south I cannot stand snow , ice or cold and the only reason we are here is because of my husband s job transfer . Never again if I move south will I move north ....Nope we will tell them no a most def no .

[cBach]

Originally Posted by Cambium

Current temps/wind chills down south. Still 10-25 below normal East of Texas. Pretty sure some ponds and still lakes are starting to get a frozen layer on top, down to New Orleans and northern Florida

False.

I was in Lake Charles, LA on Saturday was mid 60's with sunny skies, beautiful, Sunday morning, it was 69 degrees and humid, great weather really, prior to the cold front coming through which dropped temps into the 40's by the night. I was driving back to Austin and my car thermometer said the temp was dropping about 1 degree every 10 miles or so as I was driving into the cold front which featured intense downpours. It was around 28 degrees and clear by the time I reached Austin.

Austin got up to 32 degrees on Monday then another hard freeze but got to around 48 degrees yesterday under partly cloudy skies and is 50 degrees and rainy today. It will be 60 tomorrow and 70 Friday under rainy conditions and Gulf humidity, which will help my very dry skin after this horrible arctic outbreak. Then mid 60's to mid 70's and dry for this weekend. Beautiful weather coming up this weekend!

I can tell you that no, Lake Travis does not have any ice on it whatsoever. My bird bath got iced over but that has melted as well. The roads are slick and Gulf moisture is overruning cold air at the surface right now.

I love being right next to the Gulf of Mexico, cold air is quickly moderated by it...

[Adi from the Brunswicks]

Baby, its balmy in Jersey today .

19 F with clear skies and zero wind . I saw a couple tough runners tough it out in T shirts or sports bras. Thankfully, they were wearing pants.

[cBach]

Cambium,

I don't think you quite understand weather along the Gulf Coast. Yes there was record cold, but for only one or two days below freezing. Yes, even 40 degrees for a high is cold there, but that will not freeze anything. When the wind switches out of the south, you immediately notice a warming trend, even at night.

There was a night when the max cold was reach at 11 PM at 52, then it warmed overnight to 58. This is while the extreme cold was going on in Chicago, etc... I was in New Orleans a few days ago, the MS River was flowing fine, it was unseasonably cold but sunny. A 30 degree latitude full sun will not allow things to freeze, even if conditions were at freezing (and they weren't, it was 45 degrees).

Sometimes I notice that things warm up after a cold front here in Austin because the air dries out, allowing the strong 30 degree latitude sun warm things up. Yes, the nights are freezing, but are quickly modified.

The coldest conditions occur when an overrunning condition occurs with cold air at the surface. We experienced that right before Thanksgiving and again a couple of weeks ago. Then highs could potentially be below freezing with no sunlight. But that has evaded us in Austin this year (not so much in Dallas though).