Thu, 04 Feb 2021 10:35 UTC
According to the satellites, the global lower troposphere cooled rapidly during the past two months (Dec + Jan). Mid-latitude cooling is only intensifying-further during February as record-breaking polar blasts are about to descend into North America, Europe, and Asia
simultaneously:
tight ZONAL flows to unusually
wavy MERIDIONAL ones. This reduction in energy is effectively buckling those bands of fast-flowing air, with the upshot (in the NH) being the transportation of tropical warmth anomalously-far north, and, conversely, the sinking of polar cold unusually-far south.
North America
North America is now on course for something widespread truly historic. Arctic Air is About to Bring Dangerously Cold Temps, reads one mainstream headline; Arctic Blast Will Bring a Deep Freeze From Chicago to New York, exclaims another.