ARCTIC OUTBREAK to bring snow, cold, societal disruption to PNW and BC (most, moving)

[Ed's Mountain]

OK, this is just getting silly. Come on ECCC, up your game a little bit. A low of -51°C and a high of -40°C??? No way that's happening.


Source: https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/ab-71_metric_e.html

[memph]

Originally Posted by Ed's Mountain

OK, this is just getting silly. Come on ECCC, up your game a little bit. A low of -51°C and a high of -40°C??? No way that's happening.


Source: https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/ab-71_metric_e.html

The Weather Network is saying a low of -40C tomorrow morning, high of -30C tomorrow, low of -40C Sunday morning and high of -29C Sunday afternoon.

Guess we'll see who's forecast comes in closest. TWN <48 hour forecasts have almost always been accurate within 2C for my town.

[Wile E. Coyote]

You guys with your -50C and I am devastated it is 21F here right now.

[Threerun]

-35F when we woke up. No wind thankfully

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by Threerun

-35F when we woke up. No wind thankfully

I saw Butte had a low temperature of -44F. Wind chills in ND near -70F on the new scale. Port Townsend, WA had a low temperature of 1F this morning, very impressive cold air outbreak.

[memph]

Originally Posted by memph

The Weather Network is saying a low of -40C tomorrow morning, high of -30C tomorrow, low of -40C Sunday morning and high of -29C Sunday afternoon.

Guess we'll see who's forecast comes in closest. TWN <48 hour forecasts have almost always been accurate within 2C for my town.

Well ECCC ended up being closer - got down to -46.6C last night.

Cold spot in Alberta (and Canada) atm is Keg River at -49.3C so the province could definitely reach the -50C mark at some point.

[Threerun]

Originally Posted by GraniteStater

I saw Butte had a low temperature of -44F. Wind chills in ND near -70F on the new scale. Port Townsend, WA had a low temperature of 1F this morning, very impressive cold air outbreak.

There's a spot just north of Butte called Elk Park- I'll bet it was near -60F last night/this morning.

[Ed's Mountain]

Originally Posted by memph

Well ECCC ended up being closer - got down to -46.6C last night.

Cold spot in Alberta (and Canada) atm is Keg River at -49.3C so the province could definitely reach the -50C mark at some point.

Yep, Keg River got down to -50.1°C some time between 8-9 am this morning.

I think the -46.6°C for Edmonton YEG was yesterday. Minimum today seems to be -45°C.

The forecast for tonight in Edmonton YEG revised to -46°C which seems more realistic. Too bad really: if it's going to be this cold I kind of wish it could reach the big five-oh.

PS. The Edmonton Blatchford station continues to be an epic fail. But also now the Calgary YYC station seems to be equally compromised.

[Ed's Mountain]

Emergency alert issued in Alberta due to high power demand causing the risk of rotating power outages.

https://www.alberta.ca/aea/cap/2024/...4EB73520EC.htm

[simonusa3]

The conditions in the northern plains are downright dangerous ....wind chill -50 F . And to think, I was in Georgetown, DE yesterday and it was 62 F. It's 110 F colder than what my temp was. What a country. LOL