Source: www.aol.com - Thursday, January 31, 2019
The cold snap in the UK has led to severe weather warnings, with the fears over “risk to life” as the country is braced for more snow and ice. But in parts of the US, it’s almost uninhabitable. Across the States, and particularly in a number of northern states, temperatures have reportedly plummeted to as low as minus 45C (minus 49F) with a wind chill. Chicago is braced to experience its lowest ever temperature on Thursday and drop below the minus 32C (minus 25.6F) recorded in 1985, according to the National Weather Service. The Illinois city was colder than the Canadian village of Alert, one of the world’s most northerly inhabited places. The nation’s third-largest city resembled a ghost town after most offices told employees to stay home. Just to underline the point, Hell has literally frozen over. Residents of Hell in Michigan have experienced temperatures as low as minus 26C (minus 14.8F) Disruptions caused by the persistent subzero temperatures have included power outages and canceled flights and trains and burst water mains. Meanwhile, a police force in Missouri asked people to “keep criminalling to a minimum” while the cold weather continues. Driving the extreme weather is the Polar Vortex, or more specifically a split in the Polar Vortex, a mass of cold air that normally stays bottled up in the Arctic. The split allowed the air to spill much farther south than usual. Officials in dozens of cities are focused on protec
Source: Breaking News
The cold snap in the UK has led to severe weather warnings, with the fears over “risk to life” as the country is braced for more snow and ice. But in parts of the US, it’s almost uninhabitable. Across the States, and particularly in a number of northern states, temperatures have reportedly plummeted to as low as minus 45C (minus 49F) with a wind chill. Chicago is braced to experience its lowest ever temperature on Thursday and drop below the minus 32C (minus 25.6F) recorded in 1985, according to the National Weather Service. The Illinois city was colder than the Canadian village of Alert, one of the world’s most northerly inhabited places. The nation’s third-largest city resembled a ghost town after most offices told employees to stay home. Just to underline the point, Hell has literally frozen over. Residents of Hell in Michigan have experienced temperatures as low as minus 26C (minus 14.8F) Disruptions caused by the persistent subzero temperatures have included power outages and canceled flights and trains and burst water mains. Meanwhile, a police force in Missouri asked people to “keep criminalling to a minimum” while the cold weather continues. Driving the extreme weather is the Polar Vortex, or more specifically a split in the Polar Vortex, a mass of cold air that normally stays bottled up in the Arctic. The split allowed the air to spill much farther south than usual. Officials in dozens of cities are focused on protec
Source: Breaking News
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