{"id":180456,"date":"2021-12-31T18:39:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T17:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=180456"},"modified":"2021-12-31T18:39:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T17:39:12","slug":"wavy-jet-stream-big-temp-contrast-38f-in-mt-87f-in-al-record-cold-and-snow-hit-alaska-saskatchewan-breaks-16-low-temp-records-sets-new-power-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=180456","title":{"rendered":"Wavy Jet Stream = Big Temp Contrast (-38F in MT, +87F in AL); Record Cold and Snow Hit Alaska; + Saskatchewan Breaks 16 Low Temp Records, Sets New Power Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Wavy Jet Stream = Big Temp Contrast<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0global warming hypothesis\u00a0can\u2019t explain this one: The boundary of a buckling, meridional jet stream flow\u2013brought about by historically low solar activity, is cutting right through the heart of America, causing anomalous heat on one side (+87F in Alabama) and a bone-chilling freeze on the other (-38F in Montana).<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When solar activity is HIGH, the jet stream is tight and stable and follows somewhat of a straight path. But when solar activity is LOW, such as it is now, that meandering band of air flowing 6 miles above our heads becomes weak and wavy, it effectively buckles which diverts frigid Polar air to atypically low latitudes and replaces it with warmer tropical air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The jet stream reverts from a\u00a0Zonal Flow\u00a0<\/mark><\/em><\/strong>to a\u00a0Meridional Flow<\/mark><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and, depending on which side of the jet stream you\u2019re on, you\u2019re either in for a spell of unseasonably cold or hot weather and\/or a period of unusually dry or wet conditions \u2014 it just so happens that boundary is currently cutting down the middle of the CONUS:
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GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Jan 1 [tropicaltidbits.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n


This <\/em>is the true mechanism behind the U.S.\u2019s, and indeed the planet\u2019s, growing temperature contrasts, rather than the benign <\/em>increase of atmospheric CO2\u2013with the latter gaining such traction in the MSM, I suspect, due to it being a key component of The Great Reset: the plot to reform society in the interest of the few, to \u2018build back better\u2019 for the elites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look to the lack of investment in fossil fuels over the past few decades, at how out of favor this crucial commodity has fallen; look at the shortages and record energy prices currently gripping every developed corner of the planet, hurting the purse strings of everyday families. Before you can \u2018build back\u2019 you need a collapse, and this is what\u2019s being orchestrated now \u2014 it appears those on high intend for us to take each other out in the form of civil war\u2013the best answer to which is to start getting along; to find common ground; to reject ideological groupthink; to realize that there is no Left vs Right, rather there are simple beings<\/em> with complex emotions and crippling confusion, forever bumping into walls of depression in search of meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Left vs Right is itself a construct \u2014 one which serves the system<\/em>, not we the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turning our attention back to the weather (ha!), in a further blow to the AGW Party, the anomalous cold looks set to prevail \u2014 low temperature records will be challenged across the CONUS, and indeed across Canada and Alaska, and even Mexico, too:
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GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Jan 1 \u2013 Jan 16 [tropicaltidbits.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Record Cold And Snow Hit Alaska<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAlaska\u00a0\u2018Icemageddon\u2019\u00a0warning\u201d, is how\u00a0<\/b>the BBC<\/a>\u00a0puts i<\/b><\/mark><\/em>t, so you know it must be bloody cold\u2026<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BBC article begins with record warmth (the\u00a019.4C (66.9F<\/mark><\/em>)<\/strong>\u00a0logged on Kodiak Island, Sunday: AGW hypothesis intact), but as discussed above, AGW can\u2019t in any way, shape, or form explain the historic cold gripping a much larger portion of the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the south-eastern town of Ketchikan, for example, temperatures dropped to\u00a0-18C (-0.4F)<\/mark><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>on December 25 & 26 \u2014 the town\u2019s coldest Christmas period of the past century+, with the old records being the -14.4C (6F) in 1967, and the -15C (5F) from 1917.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The extreme freeze prompted warnings of an \u201cIcemageddon\u201d from authorities, continues the BBC article, as torrents of rain and snow have left ice as hard as cement coating the roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIce is extremely difficult to remove once it has binded to the road surface. Even though air temps were warm\u2026 roads were at sub-zero temps, which caused ice to bind to the surface,\u201d tweeted<\/a> the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ice is expected cling to the roads until at least March or April, said Climate Scientist Rick Thoman, of the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy.
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Winter lives: Tuesday 225pm twilight and -40F\/C at Nuiqsut (North Slope). #akwx<\/a> @Climatologist49<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/8B3tST8MLL<\/a><\/p>— Rick Thoman (@AlaskaWx) December 29, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>