New York – A fresh jolt of arctic air will usher in the new year for much of the United States this weekend, bringing record cold temperatures on New Year’s Day to cities in the Midwest and East Coast, forecasters said on Saturday.
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During the final hours of 2017, the mercury in New York City’s Times Square will drop to about 10 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 12 Celsius), with the wind chill at nearly 0 F, the National Weather Service said, testing the endurance of hundreds of thousands of New Year’s Eve revelers.
In the heartland, next week could bring low temperatures last recorded 130 years ago to parts of Nebraska, said David Eastlack, a meteorologist with the NWS. That includes a record low for the date of -22F for Tuesday.
“The bitter cold is going to be dangerous,” he said in a phone interview, warning residents of eastern Nebraska and western Iowa to avoid venturing outside or taking a car trip. He said that the wind chills will be near minus 35 F, a level when frostbite could set in within 10 minutes.
Temperatures could drop to around 0 F as far south as the northern border of Oklahoma on New Year’s Day, and into the minus 30s near the Canadian border on Sunday and Monday, the NWS said. The arctic air from Canada will also bring sub-freezing temperatures on U.S. Gulf Coast cities such as Biloxi, Mississippi.
Icy roads will make travel difficult over much of the U.S. from the south-central states from Texas and Oklahoma and eastward over Arkansas, northern Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama through the New Year’s weekend, AccuWeather said.
Global warming I tell you
55 years ago, during the winter of 1962-1963, NYC endured a very bittler cold wave, from December through the beginning of February. I remember that winter very well, since the newspaper strike lasted from December through April, and those poor strikers had to picket in the bitter cold. However, the temperature never dropped below zero. I don’t think that it ever goes below zero in NYC. However, in the Midwest, where I now live, we’ve had temperatures in the past at 22 degrees below zero.
There is NO such thing as global warming….however there seems to be global cooling and we must think what is causing it???
Maybe the over production of ice cream, or people leaving their refrigerator doors open longer that needed? What ever it is, we the thinking people of the world must decide for ourselves what is causing global cooling!