Winter 2020/2021 is extreme in Europe, Asia and too North America!
While in Europe, extreme, regionally historic Siberian coldwave is bringing many temperature records and Siberia, China, Korea, Japan or parts of Middle East have reported since late December 2020 regionally all-time temperature records, too, Canada and USA is experiencing with a peak of the Wintr 2020/2021 right now.
Accroding to the newest news, 70.4% territory of the USA is under the snow! The most of snow was over the USA on 12. January 2011, 70.9% /https://www.chicagotribune.com/weather/ct-wea-0324-asktom-20160323-column.html/, therefore we are really close to the snowiest winter ever! In the next days, additional snowfall is expected mainly in eastern parts of the USA and the snowiest record should be easily broken!
Moreover, extremely cold conditions are reported from the parts of the USA, with new all-time records in MN, NE, IA, SD, KS, MO, TX and OK. In Texas -20°F / -28.9°C was measured in Palo Duro, what is only 3°C warmer than all-time state recrod -23°F / -30.6°C.
Extreme winter is forecasted until Friday, 19. February, on East Coast too at the weekend. After warmer period, the next extreme coldwave is forecasted for Canada and northern USA for the end of February and the beginning of March 2021.
Texas Cold Spell (2): The DCP station of Palo Duro reported a minimum temperature of -20F (-28.9C). If it's reliable it would be one of the lowest temps ever recorded in #Texas. State record is -23F (-30.6C) at Seminole and Tulia. pic.twitter.com/VwuDeZpwGi
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) February 15, 2021
USA Cold Spell: #Nebraska, just like the Dakotas, #Oklahoma,Texas and #Iowa had near record lows temperatures on 15 February. The COOP station of Imperial dropped to -39F (-39.4C), not far from the State low of -47F (-43.9C) recorded at Oshkosh and Bridgeport. pic.twitter.com/qUyRhYvjq3
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) February 15, 2021
Texas Cold Spell:After mixed precipitations of snow,freezing rain and ice pellets even beyond the mexican border,Tmins on Feb 15th dropped to multi years lows:-11F Amarillo,-3F Wichita Falls,-1F San Angelo,0F Abilene,2F Fort Worth,7F Austin,10F San Antonio,14F Del Rio,18F Laredo. https://t.co/bPoWUakmXu
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) February 15, 2021
At least 3 dead, 150M people under winter advisories as 'unprecedented' storm stretches across 25 states; 3.6M without power in Texas https://t.co/1EqnXra8kb
— Breaking Weather by AccuWeather (@breakingweather) February 15, 2021
The snow and ice that hit the southern Plains is spreading eastward and will cause disruptions across the mid-Atlantic and New England into Tuesday: https://t.co/xy27HRxo4R
— Breaking Weather by AccuWeather (@breakingweather) February 15, 2021
It's currently -3 F in Oklahoma City with an AccuWeather RealFeel Temperature of -30 F. A normal high for this time of year in OKC is in the mid-50s. The city broke its daily record from 1909 of 7 F when it recorded a temp of -6 this morning: https://t.co/UatsSblhhIpic.twitter.com/kIqjuIASSK
— Breaking Weather by AccuWeather (@breakingweather) February 15, 2021
Winter storm warnings (dark blue) are in effect from Texas to Maine this morning.
— Breaking Weather by AccuWeather (@breakingweather) February 15, 2021
As moisture continued to stream in from the Pacific Ocean Friday night and Saturday, snow and ice continued to fall at an increasingly higher rate along the Interstate 5 corridor in western Washington, Oregon and northern California: https://t.co/KQ9D4eeuTmpic.twitter.com/G0FFQ1LFuo
— Breaking Weather by AccuWeather (@breakingweather) February 14, 2021
As explained by Prof Mann, cold spell in USA winter is just old normal cold winters that used to happen growing up in 50s/60s/70s. But every year has heat records. Polar air over USA may be more common as Arctic warms, climate systems break down eg polar jetstream. #climate#ESGhttps://t.co/EDAYdzxwJt
— Graham Sinclair (metachronal gait) (@esgarchitect) February 15, 2021
