Extreme Temperature Diary- Friday January 5th, 2024/ Main Topic: Main Topic: Much Colder and Stormier Weather Pattern on Tap for U.S. That Is Ironically Part of Climate Change

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The main purpose of this ongoing blog is to track planetary extreme, or record temperatures related to climate change. Any reports I see of ETs will be listed below the main topic of the day and are archived on each prior post. I’ll refer to extreme or temperatures as ETs (not extraterrestrials).😉

Main Topic: Much Colder and Stormier Weather Pattern on Tap for U.S. Ironically Part of Climate Change

Dear Diary. Every winter we see cold snaps, many of which are accompanied by winter storms and downright nasty weather. This past December we had a dearth of these across the United States and Canada because it was the warmest December in history across North America brought to us by climate change:

Since our climate isn’t entirely broken yet, the law of averages would dictate that a pattern change is in the offing, and indeed due to a stratospheric warming event, the rest of January will prove to be much colder and stormier. You can read my post on stratospheric warming events as they relate to climate change here:

Extreme Temperature Diary- Wednesday January 3rd, 2024/ Main Topic: Sudden Stratospheric Warming Events and Climate Change – Guy On Climate

The following operational model won’t get all details right since it is 192 hours out in time, but its general predicted pattern fits with ensembles:

As usual when I send out a winter tweet, such as the one from above, I get a lot of flak from climate denial naysayers. It’s no wonder because record chill caused by climate change is very counterintuitive. The positive 500 millibar anomalies on the above chart that I tweeted out are some of the highest that I have ever seen for January across the Arctic.

We will probably see some reports of record warmth coming from the Arctic area. We potentially could rack up hundreds of reports of record chill coming from the Pacific Northwest and the northwest third of the nation during mid-January.

This weekend into this coming week we will see a transition to this colder and stormier weather pattern Already one system has the potential to end New York City’s snow drought and most certainly will bring the first significant snow to most of the Northeast:

Using TWC nomenclature, Finn will be much more powerful than Ember and will produce an old-fashioned blizzard across portions of the Midwest with severe storms in the Southeast and flooding rain on top of the snowpack left by Ember next week:

A third system behind Finn will dig into the Pacific Northwest and produce not only a lot of snow but that record cold weather I referred to after January 10th.

Suffice it to say, meteorologists will be very busy during January after dusting off cobwebs from inactivity during December:

Here are more “ET’s” recorded from around the planet the last couple of days, their consequences, and some extreme temperature outlooks, as well as any extreme precipitation reports:

Here is more brand-new December and 2023 climatology:

Here is More Climate and News from Friday:

(As usual, this will be a fluid post in which more information gets added during the day as it crosses my radar, crediting all who have put it on-line. Items will be archived on this site for posterity. In most instances click on the pictures of each tweet to see each article. The most noteworthy items will be listed first.)

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