Utah Sets Coldest-Ever Temperature; Orilla On Brink Of Historic Snowfall Record; Japan's Snow Continues To Impress; Antarctica At -55.1C (-67.2F); + The Climate Racket Is Collapsing

Bought-out academics will have to find themselves a new racket. So too will activist-journalists. The jig is up.

Utah Sets Coldest-Ever Temperature

A brutal Arctic outbreak is setting records across the United States, including at Peter Sinks, Utah, which read -50.9F (-46.1C) Wednesday morning. This, despite me only causally mentioning it yesterday, made for Utah's coldest-ever temperature.

Wednesday’s low breaks Utah’s previous all-time cold record of -50F (-45.6C), set back in 1913 at Strawberry Tunnel. If confirmed, it will stand as the coldest official temperature ever recorded in the state.

A low of -69.3F (-56.3C) was logged back on Feb 1, 1985, but NOAA later retracted this reading due to insufficient verification: "no information concerning the observation or the station could be identified, and the value is heavily affected by the local terrain."

Peter Sinks, a natural limestone sinkhole in the Wasatch Mountains at 8,164 feet, is notorious for extreme cold due to its unique geography. Acting as a massive bowl, it traps dense, freezing air overnight, creating dramatic temperature inversions.

The Arctic blast is breaking records elsewhere across the U.S., with hundreds of daily lows falling. Bismarck, North Dakota is one. It posted a new Feb 13 low of -31F (-35C), surpassing the previous record of -28F (-33C) set in 2021.

With extreme cold warnings in effect, bitter temperatures and heavy snow are expected to persist for the foreseeable. Conditions actually look set to intensify next week as anomalies pf -30C descend deep into the CONUS:

GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Feb 17 - Feb 20 []