China's Latest Arctic Blast Has Arrived, Xinjiang From -1C to -40C In A Day; Antarctica At -55.9C (-68.6F); + Malevolent Fallacy
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China's Latest Arctic Blast Has Arrived, Xinjiang From -1C to -40C In A Day
China is being hit again—for the third time in as many weeks—as a rare February cold wave impacts great swaths of the country.
On Thursday, northwest China''s Xinjiang issued its highest cold wave alert, warning that biting lows and powerful blizzards were about to rip through the region.
The city of Altay duly delivered, dropping from -1C to -40C in a single day, with -50C (-58F) hitting nearby mountainous areas.
Across China, many, many places are about to break their lowest-ever temperatures for the month of February as the polar air mass continues its southerly descent.
This is a powerful Arctic outbreak, rare for February, according to state broadcasters, and it's a widespread one:
The snow, as it proved in late Jan and again in early Feb—when at least 35 all-time depth records were broken, is forecast to be severe and fell additional benchmarks.
The east is forecast to be hit again, including the capital of Beijing which is have an eventful winter, let's call it. In December, the city logged more than 300 hours of below-freezing temperatures, the highest number since records began in 1951.
Then the record snows came — and to southern/central provinces, and all:
Latest GFS runs are forecasting an absolute deluge of snow as the polar cold shifts south from Russia, through Kazakhstan, burying the likes of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan on Friday, before turning its attention to China starting Sunday, February 18:
This is a full-blown Arctic Outbreak.
Note also that China's blast of record-breaking polar cold is, once again, being preceded by a brief spell of anomalous warmth.
This, as I'm sure readers are well-aware by now, is one of signs of a low solar activity-induced 'meridional' jet stream flow, i.e. 'swings between extremes'.
The textbooks have long attributed 'climate chaos'—as today's alarmists have been instructed to call it—to a waning sun.
There is nothing new nor unprecedented going here, merely returning cycles.
If governments were to properly prepare their people then the forecast Grand Solar Minimum wouldn't cause half the misery it otherwise will, particularly given our modern tech and capabilities.
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