Record Cold Continues Across North America, Renewables Fail; Snowy Europe; Strong SSW Event Forecast For February; + Low Solar Activity

The sun is shutting down, is the contention held by many -- Solar Cycle 25's early demise only adds weight.

Record Cold Continues Across North America, Renewables Fail

North America's big freeze is making worldwide news.

As reported by the timesofindia.com, the NWS has called the Arctic blast "life-threatening winter weather" and have urged people to stay safe and prepared.

Starting in Canada, records are continuing to tumble here — the cold has really been quite invasive across the Great White North.

Here's a comment I received from reader "Jim":

This was our temperature out our back door yesterday morning at 8am MST: -45C (-55C windchill).

I have lived in Alberta since I was 10, in 1967. I have never seen temperatures go this low in Central Alberta -- Edmonton to Calgary corridor. These temperatures are just one more confirmation of the GSM taking hold of the planet. ... When the sun’s protective energy radiating around us gets to its lowest rate, God only knows what the cosmic energy of the universe will have upon the planet. …

The -45C and wind building that low to -55C was so cold it is difficult to describe. I held the metal door handle on the inside of the screen door for more than 5 seconds and received a cold-burn to my fingers and hand. The cold air seeps instantly through any clothing. Opening the door of the Ford Excursion feels like it will crumbled in my hands. Sitting on the seat is like sitting up high upon a mountain rock. Turning the key, even though plugged in with full charge on two 880 amp batteries, gives me a…Wau…Wau…Wau.

This is surreal. It is exactly like the Arctic stories when those up there said, “we can never shut the vehicles off…otherwise they will never start”. That is what it was like here, the past week. And this is just Year #3 of the GSM.

Jim

And into the United States,