Back-to-Back Arctic Blasts For US; Snow Pushes Across The Mediterranean And Caucasus; South Korea Shivers; + How The Global Warming "Pause" Was Erased
The models were treated as fixed. The measurements were treated as adjustable.
Back-to-Back Arctic Blasts For US
The ECMWF continues to roll out a relentless Arctic pattern for the United States, with subzero temperatures forecast for about 102 million people, just over 30% of the U.S. population, into early next week.
The model now shows a parade of major winter events: a wallop this weekend, then a second Arctic blast peaking Jan 29-31, followed by an even stronger third wave around Feb 2-4. This is not a brief cold shot. It is sustained Arctic influence.
Latest ECMWF guidance points to roughly 250 million Americans affected by a massive winter storm tied to a sprawling Canadian cold pool. The event sweeps Texas late Friday (Jan 23) with freezing rain, then a rapid flash freeze as Arctic air crashes south.
Ice accretion extends through Little Rock and along Interstate 40 into the Carolinas, while snowfall totals explode to the north across the Ohio River Valley, the Mid-Atlantic including Washington D.C., and onward through New York City into New England.
At the first storm’s peak on Sunday, roughly 55% of the country is expected to experience snow, sleet, or freezing rain, which would rank among the largest winter weather events most Americans will experience in their lifetimes.
Energy markets are already reacting violently.
