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mahatmakanejeeves

(61,298 posts)
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 06:57 PM Nov 26

A brutally cold air mass is coming. How chilly will it get in your region?

A brutally cold air mass is coming. How chilly will it get in your region?
More than two dozen states may experience temperatures in the single digits or lower.


A man shovels snow in Ankeny, Iowa, on Jan. 12. A cold air mass is making its way over the United States this week. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)

By Ben Noll
Updated November 26, 2024 at 9:57 a.m. EST | Published November 26, 2024 at 9:40 a.m. EST

The weirdly warm November weather will soon come to a crashing end, thanks to an air mass moving from the Laptev Sea north of Russia — over 4,000 miles away from the U.S. East Coast, where its journey will end this weekend.

It may seem like an uninvited post-holiday guest. But when much of the eastern two-thirds of the United States has been 5 to 10 degrees warmer than average this month, it may be greeted with arms wide open. And this polar plunge has no intention of departing any time soon.

It’s expected to stick around into mid-December, sparing no state east of the Rocky Mountains from an unusual chill, to varying degrees.

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By Ben Noll
Ben Noll is a meteorologist with a passion for communicating extreme weather and climate trends. He has experience working with data and creating weather graphics on a supercomputer, developing meteorological services in the Pacific Islands, and short, medium, and long-range weather prediction.follow on X @BenNollWeather
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A brutally cold air mass is coming. How chilly will it get in your region? (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Nov 26 OP
Central Illinois here, 24 degrees this morning questionseverything Nov 26 #1
Archive link to get past the notorious paywall. hlthe2b Nov 26 #2
Down to hi of 41 Saturday, after 63 today! (southern MD) elleng Nov 26 #3
North Alabama here. House of Roberts Nov 26 #4
Only in Buffalo, especially for the 49ers next Sunday. usonian Nov 26 #5

House of Roberts

(5,727 posts)
4. North Alabama here.
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 07:32 PM
Nov 26

I see a couple of 22s on Monday and Tuesday mornings. I'll be running my woodstove for auxilliary heat but we'll be fine.
Not near as bad as those single digits with snow all over the roads for a week last January.

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