Major northern hemisphere cold snap coming

**Malsua** · December 30th, 2009, 17:58

Just friggin wonderful...

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Cold event setups in atmospheric circulation patterns are aligning. Two days ago I brought to your attention that there was a strong downspike in the Arctic Oscillation Index and that the North Atlantic Oscillation Index was also negative. See The Arctic Oscillation Index goes strongly negative

Yesterday, Senior AccuWeather meteorologist Joe Bastardi let loose with this stunning prediction on the AccuWeather premium web site via Brett Anderson’s Global warming blog:

What is facing the major population centers of the northern hemisphere is unlike anything that we have seen since the global warming debate got to the absurd level it is now, which essentially has been there is no doubt about all this. For cold of a variety not seen in over 25 years in a large scale is about to engulf the major energy consuming areas of the northern Hemisphere. The first 15 days of the opening of the New Year will be the coldest, population weighted, north of 30 north world wide in over 25 years in my opinion.

The Climate Prediction Center discussion for their forecast also concurs with both of the above:

THE AO INDEX WHICH RECENTLY HAS BEEN VERY STRONGLY NEGATIVE IS FORECAST TO INCREASE SLIGHTLY IN VALUE BUT REMAIN STRONGLY NEGATIVE THROUGH DAY 14. TODAYS BLEND CHART INDICATES BELOW NORMAL HEIGHTS ACROSS ROUGHLY THE SOUTHEASTERN TWO-THIRDS OF THE CONUS, AND ABOVE NORMAL HEIGHTS OVER THE NORTHWESTERN THIRD OF THE CONUS, CONSISTENT WITH A STRONGLY NEGATIVE AO.

**American Patriot** · December 30th, 2009, 18:25

Joe Bastardi

Damn those Bastrardis!

And All the Global Warming is probably responsible!

**American Patriot** · December 30th, 2009, 18:27

Oh, HELL! I just figured it all out!!!!!

Global Warming is a FACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hot air rises, cold air sinks. When hot air rises it can pull in cold air to takes it's place.

The fact is, all that HOT AIR in Washington DC is what's causing global warming AND as the heat rises it is pulling in Cold from the North!

There IS something to it AFTER ALL!

**Malsua** · December 30th, 2009, 18:48

Reminds me of that smug cloud from Southpark from all the liberals who drove Prius's and enjoyed the smell of their own farts.

**Ryan Ruck** · December 30th, 2009, 19:40

And still barely any snow here in SW Ohio. We had a Brown Christmas.

**Malsua** · January 5th, 2010, 16:12

So far this is panning out.

It's cold and getting colder.

**Toad** · January 5th, 2010, 18:36

It's hit -22 last Saturday here in Minot. Made snowblowing a pretty brisk adventure. The upside is you get pretty good traction on ice and snaow when it's that cold. The downside is it's that cold.

The forcast for Thursday(01/7/10) is a low of -29 before windchill, high of -10.

I'm all for global warming. Two years ago it hit -50 twice.(before windchill) That kind of cold is just ungodly brutal on both man and machine. If you don't have a protected semi-heated garage or engine block heater, you're not going anywhere.