@@dengxiaoping325 Yeah, maybe and just maybe man could be part of it, but in any was it would happen anyway. So, what? Do we become an underground civilization to endure even extinction events? Or we could learn to stabilize the planet as we see fit.
Living in the last days as the bible foretold, more extremes to come. "Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12
They had this pretty much every year and the media calls it different things all the time. Before it was called “polar vortex”. Just search the news archives from past years. But people have short memories these days.
I’m from Colorado and two evenings ago in Breckenridge along the 10 Mile Range it was -65°F (-54°C) with the wind blowing at 36mph. My cousin is actually down in Antarctica for work and it’s warmer where he’s at then where I’m at 😂
And it is warmer in the Canadian Arctic. I used to live on Baffin Island where it should be more like what you are seeing. Now they seldom see temperature below -20C and are often warmer than areas much further south.
It’s summer in Antarctica. Proximity to ocean on Baffin Isle makes a huge difference over continental locales. Winnipeg and Regina are almost always colder than Anchorage, Alaska. The coldest city on Earth is in Siberia, thousands of miles from any ocean.
😓 I'm sad that means most wild animals living outside inevitably died. There is no way they could've adapted, migrated anywhere fast and far enough for this!
@@matthewe467 If you grow palms in Germany you do have to protect them from freezing in the winter if they arent resistant though. Our weather here in northern Germany is also really weird right now, we had temps of around -6c from the 12.12-17.12 and got some snow, then around the 18th temperatures rose to around +7c and all the snow is gone. It looks like it will stay like this at least until new years. And yeah, its nice that it is warm here, but we have very little sun in the winter due to living so far north and the sun doesnt go far above the horizon, which kinda sucks.
Buffalo, New York checking in. We have been absolutely crushed. To the point that I can't open any of my outside doors due to the magnitude of snow. Throw in 60 MPH winds and 6 degrees Fahrenheit temps. Buffalo is synonymous with snow... and this is probably tied with the Blizzard of 1977 as the worst ever. And when the temps get up into the 40's in a few days, the flooding will begin. *sobs*
North of Buffalo here. We could get 1 door open, so elderly husband went to check the mail. He fell into the deep snow and got stuck for a half hour in it. I thought he was just chatting with neighbors. Now I truly get how people die in this weather.
When she was talking about the homeless people falling asleep and dying from the cold, that's exactly how allot of people who climb the highest mountains die. Their body shuts down and they think they're warm when they're cold and start taking their clothes off and end up falling asleep and going hypothermic and dying
@@moniho6907 "in extreme cases of hypothermia you may feel very warm as your body dilates blood vessels in a last ditch attempt to warm freezing tissue in your limbs" Just copied this from Google. That makes sense
Here in Brisbane, Australia we have had the mildest summer in living memory with day temps rarely cracking 30°C and nights as low as mid to low teens - chilly by subtropical standards. Not that I’m complaining. Usually it’s consistently mid to high 30s in the day and mid to high 20s at night. Other Australian capitals are similarly experiencing unseasonably cool weather, also caused by cold air moving up from the polar region, the Antarctic in our case. Even providing a little snow to the Australian Alps and elevated regions of Tasmania. It’s hard to imagine living in a place where snow is a thing, let alone blizzards.
Just imagine all the rain of this year in Australia would be snow? It's also very crazy to get huge fire, massive rain and what will come in the future? I'm kind of horrified
@@imtheeastgermanguy5431 Bomb cyclone Storms are caused by wind, as the Earth warms we retain more energy from the sun, more energy means faster wind and even colder, more frequent and larger Bomb Cyclones. As well as hotter more devastating summers.
@@kareemsalessi Australia has ski resorts in the Australian Alps. So it would be a bit odd if a place with ski resorts had no snow. It's not unusual for mountainous high elevation areas to get snow, on any continent.
I live in northeast Wisconsin and the weather is weird. Yesterday with the wind chill, it was -30°F (-34°C) but next week Thursday, the weather forecast says it will be 41°F (5°C) and it'll be raining. All this snow will melt just in time for the New Year!
SE WI guy here, I noted several days this year with a swing over 50F day to day (and I'm talking high vs high). It swung from a high of 80F to 30F early in the fall.
That one was smaller in scope. It was a narrow band of cold that dumped on the far south when it hit moist air coming up off the gulf. This time the storm is huge and dumping cold and snow on a large portion of the country.
So what. Since 1947 when humans first crossed the North West Passage by boat, the Arctic has become ice free. The last great Ice shelf to the north crumbled away into the ocean. The trend is so noticeable that Russia has begun playing geopolitics in the north because the north has become very lucrative. Homes are collapsing in northern communities because of melting permafrost. Thats the reality that one blip on the radar doesn't answer
@@professorakiba434Idk how old you are, so maybe this wasn't taught when you were at school but there's this little thing called climate change and global warming and they are intimately connected. When part of the planet becomes hotter it causes other places to become colder and vice versa. It also intensifies storms, making them longer, more unpredictable and more destructive.
Its not uncommon for Millions of Americans to attempt to travel during "once in a generation" storms. Somehow while spending all of that time online to book their flights and hotel rooms they forgot to check the weather report for a single second.
seeing how only 30-40 died, all things considered, that's pretty amazing, especially since most of the deaths were probably people with no 4WD/snow tires, no chains, no real winter gear, not enough gas in the car and a dying cell phone. or they were just old or out of shape or both with a severe health condition.
As someone from Wyoming, we were all used to watching for the weather. Not in that 'prepared hiker' sort of way, but in highschool and college days we went to the mountains to drink and grill on a fire and such. Whatever the reason, you had to know weather could change drastically in 20-30 minutes and be able to act accordingly. Seems like its a skill we all need now (weather planning, not the drinking and grilling, though those have uses too =D). Good fortune to all!
Hahaha laughing at your last sentence. Definitely true on all counts though. Weather (hehe) you agree with human caused climate change or not the climate is changing and in the immediate we’re gonna all have to learn to be prepared.
@@nygardenguru as long as you’re not in Quebec along the St Lawrence as l have been. We lost power last night for 6 hrs. During 1998 ice storm for 20 days. At that time I had a Ford tractor and a generator.
Unless you're in a hurricane or tornado your house will not blow away. I just recently rode out hurricane Ian here in Florida and we had 150 mph winds I doubt you have that up north
This same storm is also affecting a large part of Canada. I.e. Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick. I feel like we always get forgotten about in the shadow of the US.
Exactly i was saying the same thing, i literally have to watch CBC news to get anything about Canada, like Canada is going through this but the us get all the should I say un-glory coverage
It was -51 windchill in Saskatchewan for 4 days, and all we heard about was BC and Ontario! Our car batteries froze, the bus was canceled, and our city was down to ONE cab running.
I live in the state of Georgia. It got down to 7F last night. It Never gets that cold in the Deep South like that. We didn’t get any wintry weather but that kind of cold will freeze your water pipes if you don’t keep water running in some part of your house. The thing about this cold blast isn’t so much about the snow as it is the cold. I expect a dramatic decrease in the insect population this summer because of it. Probably a lot less fire ants which won’t be a bad thing.
What's funny is that here in Southern Ontario Canada it is -34°C with the wind chill. Bare skin freezes in minutes. But by Friday December 30th it will be 9°C so all the snow will melt in time for New Years.
When the term ‘once in a generation’ is used it means we won’t see this in our lives again. Yet we have been seeing a lot of “once in a generation” things these past years. Meaning we have a trend and it is not the last time we will see these events.
I won’t assume if English is your first language but don’t take idioms literally. ‘once a generation’ means extreme or record. Extremes and record events can keep being broken every year.
@@TK-gd9td another term changed…the correct term for record breaking is record breaking. Once in a generation means exactly that, why are you butchering the meaning of words? Like what is a woman.
A generation typically runs between 22 and 33 years according to Siri. Climate crisis? Mercury, Venus, Mars, and other planets in this solar system have a climate crisis, earth doesn’t
There were warnings for many days of the coming enormous snow storm so why do people still insist on travel, going to airports knowing what can happen then having to hunker down and sleeping at the airport or crashing on the roads?
Extreme cold storms in Japan and the US. Extreme floods in Australia and Saudi Arabia. They are not the only countries affected by extreme weather right now. It seems we're all suffering unusual weather patterns.
eh. I think it's mostly a sign that things are ought to get worse. I mean, harmony hasn't been fully yet established still. It's just not worth it anymore man. Things got so so annoying the closer we got to 2020~.
@@BradGryphonn i am not from the us where i live it is the same people denying the phenomenon or saying it is not caused by humans while big oil gets more tax cuts
My biggest take from this is how fast it went from shorts weather to bitter cold in north Texas. Arent we supposed to feel the temperature changing in our bones? I dont think even the animals sensed how quickly it would get that cold.
Meanwhile Wile E Coyote moved north. North Western Ontario now has wolves and coyotes which we never had before. Guess we got much warmer and the coyotes found that welcoming.
Western Washington got hit with a snow storm and lots of sub freezing temperatures and after the snow we were “treated” to an ice storm that shut down the transit systems, and shut down Seattle Tacoma International Airport. Now the temperatures are rising rapidly melting the ice while it rains and rains! Now we’re warned of flooding. Ugh!
If we lived on the Geologic Time scale instead on the time scale of days and weeks I'd say cool. One fun fact: in 1947, humans crossed the North West Passage by boat for the first time ever. It was treacherous and dangerous because of pack ice. In 2022 its a normality to cross the North West Passage by boat including luxury craft because the pack ice is nowhere in sight. Its called climate change. Enjoy.
@@professorakiba434 yeah but have any of you scholars ever thought maybe, just maybe, earth goes through these natural cycles of freezing and warming?? Politicians have found a way to monetize the weather and climate. When I was in the 5th grade, I did a project on Ill Nino-ill Nina. I haven't heard one news channel, or scientist talk about these phenomenon publicly in FOREVER! Everything now is all about global warming...Why?????? Again too, its winter time, what do people expect. Im really curious
For real. The same people that refused to take those flight rescheduling vouchers being offered ahead of this weather are the same ones willingly being interviewed by news anchors while stranded at the airport shaking their heads with devastation. I wouldn't go on camera considering. 😂
So sad that a lot of people are enduring this coldness now. My heart pours to all of you. However, it seems that this is mother nature's way of healing herself. Stay safe everyone.
Strange days. Here in Hawaii, we had a storm front move through, more intense than usual for this time of year, but now it's dead calm and unusually warm and humid. This is habitat collapse due to climate disruption due to human activities, mostly industrial civilization.
@@kimweaver1252 don’t argue with people who are fixed in their ways. They’ll be the first to demand accommodations when ish hits the fan. It’s not worth the energy. You know what’s up.
And yet still had a conversation with an older relative who said " they always have bad weather and cancellations at this time of year" ... Not even mentioning that's its most of America... or Texas/ florida... or the RATE of temperature drop. I gave up
Read your history. Yes this is a bad one, but there have been many other bad ones throughout history. Every year, there's talk and alarm about travel during the holidays.
I live in the Midwest and have most my life (65 years). This is/was not a "once in a generation storm". It may have been decades since we've had such thing over the Christmas holidays, but I recall many storms that were colder and longer.
Very true. I've actually been wondering what happened to "normal" winter storms. These last decades have become so mild. Where are the -30 degree January cold snaps, and the -40° plunges of bitter cold? Where are the blizzards that Always Came every winter, with the +35mph winds, & the school closings due to the roads being drifted shut? You know, business as usual. Just another normal Minnesota winter ❄️❄️❄️.
The weather channels hype the he!! out of normal winter weather, and the public believes it. All part of the RATINGS GENERATING MACHINE. If I hadn't experienced this kind of weather as normal for most of my life, I wouldn't realize I was getting hyped either. This is extreme weather. But getting weather extremes isn't abnormal. What is noteworthy is that winter extremes are getting milder and less common. So when the weather does get extreme, it's easier to hype it.
Yesterday morning waking up outside Atlanta in GA it was about 7 degrees F (-14C) which is the coldest I have seen it get in the seven years I've lived here. Probably about a once every ten, fifteen years kind of cold snap if you ask me. Last couple days have been insane; leaving the sinks dripping overnight to keep the pipes from freezing, bundling up with hats and scarves when going outside...it's been cool though as if living in the north and experiencing cold winters again. Hope everyone has a safe and warm Christmas!
The whole thing has blown past Colorado and the west now. It's 40°F today after yesterday's high of -1°F and is centered over the central plains. Dropping 40 degrees in a day is not unusual here in Denver. Kills a lot of trees. But they usually have horrible weather in MN, WI, MI winter and Chicago area in winter is someplace you never want to go.
This used to happen every single year when I was a kid I don’t know about that once in a generation thing but this used to be the way the weather was every year
Exactly. But younger generations don't remember that, so they assume that your memory is faulty. They are so susceptible to getting hyped by the weather channels. "Once in a generation!" Used to be at least once a winter. And maybe once in November, again in January, and maybe February and March. We just expected winter storms. They're just a part of life. Now each winter storm is unique. Riiiiggghhhttttt.
this weather was our job in the 1970s. all the complainers and "extreme weather promoters" are either clueless millenials or boomers and GenXers from the south
Another reason why I would stay away from electric vehicles, imagine a blackout. Where do you charge now? Or even being stuck in the middle of a blizzard.
@@Ellecram Plus your light bill will go up, and let’s not forget how much is to insure that thing. Why would I want a car I can’t even fix myself to begin with!
I was in a once in a generation storm in 2011 when I moved to the STL from 06 to 2012.... It was called the great winter storm, basically we got 8 inches of sleet where I lived in St Louis county in Florissant MO an yes it sucked
What appears to be happening is that the once relatively stable jet streams that circle the planet are now taking wild dips to the north and south. It was the same phenomena that happened across Europe this summer, except in the opposite direction. That was hot dry air travelling north from the equator. This is quite a complex subject as many factors go into producing these jet streams. Everything from the rotation of the planet to the uneven heating from the equator and then going north and south. Similar but opposite effects are probably happening in the southern hemisphere. It is mid summer there. But as it is less populated we don't hear about it as much.
I remember that. Got down to -56° f. Official weather station reading on the first night. My thermometer read -53°f .... That's all the lower it could go. It was between -50° f and -40° f every night for about a week before it finally warmed up to -30°f at night. And wind!! Bundled up super warm one night @ -47° f and went for a walk through our woods. The trees were cracking in the wind & cold. It was so loud it sounded like artillery fire in a war zone. Most astonishing conditions I ever experienced. So glad I did it - Once! Never Again!! The air was so clear, the stars were so blue and sparkled so intensely. The cold was so unprecedented. What a wonder to experience. Once was definitely enough.
For anyone actually wondering what’s going on with all these rare storms (Death Valley had a “thousand years” storm too). It’s because of the Hunga Tunga volcanic eruption earlier this year. Unlike most eruptions, this one mostly blew ocean water into the atmosphere. This single eruption put an extra 10% of water into the atmosphere. It has to come back down somehow.
@@jonathanvilla7280there's a ton of Canadians in Florida. There's literally a reason why there's more people in California than Canada. Weather is the most important thig
Whether or not the Bomb Cyclone becomes the new normal remains to be seen. Extreme weather in one form or another has definitely become the new normal. Heat waves, droughts, floods, melting permafrost, the polar vortex reaching further south.... The cost of inaction on climate change is just starting to be realized. The final bill will be beyond anything we could have imagined.
No! It was supposed to get warmer. It didn’t. Now it’s a “bomb cyclone” ! A new scary name for winter weather! You people will buy into any nonsense. You’d been had…
Ugh, this sensationalism needs to stop... Former meteorologist here. Bomb cyclones are pretty normal. Its a term for when a low pressure center drops at least 24 milibars within 24 hours, indicating a rapidly intensifying storm. Nothing new or especially rare. We've even got a cute name for the process: bombogenesis. Its not "once in a generation".
@@joexavier4070 California isn’t a dessert it has a Mediterranean climate, and deserts get extremely cold anyways, it’s not uncommon for it to snow in desert regions.
@@Defender_messenger actually it is very uncommon for it to snow in the desert because what defines a desert is arid air marked by very little precipitation that includes snow. And most of California is not Mediterranean like maybe the San Francisco Bay Area but other parts not so much
I'm for calling this weirding climate change for obvious reasons. I have experienced 10 below in Virginia in the 1970s so calling this a once in a lifetime experience is for those born after 1980.
The coldest day in my local area was January 19, 1994 when the actual thermometer read -22 degrees Fahrenheit. I had an outdoor thermometer in the tree at the time and I snapped a photo.
I am not sure why people thought they would be able to fly, I have been reading about this storm for over a week now. It just amazes me how blind people are when they dont think it will effect them. This is not once in a generation, you guys are using fear and the ignorance of the world regarding weather in the US. It is colder here in the south east of the US than it usually is by about 15-20 degrees. We are going to warm up a lot in the next 2 weeks. If people would take responsibility for themselves and prepare for these things it would not be that bad. Most people have the perspective that it will never happen to them, now they are paying for it. People should have a winter weather bag and sleeping bag in their vehicles when traveling.
Some people have had their tickets for months. Some are traveling for business and are stuck at airports from connecting flights. Not everyone has a choice but I get your point. I would have cancelled my ticket.
Some people won't cancel a ticket because they took time off from work. Most of America only gets 14 days paid vacation a year. We are so behind the rest of the world in so many ways and are exhausted.
@@nancykraus5127 I must be one of those lucky Americans who has almost unlimited sick, vacation and personal time off. Plus short term disability and bereavement time as needed. Right now I have accumulated 7 weeks vacation and 9 weeks of sick time. I am going on 3 international trips next year. Hopefully there is no disruptive global instability in the areas i am traveling too.
Once in a generation? I guess generations are only a year long now. It's called winter, folks and the upper Midwest and the Great plains have a history of some very cold nasty ones. Every time a weather event like this happens the climate alarmists start ringing the bells again (yawn).
(Yawn) Your making your argument too late mate. Considering the Arctic is becoming ice free and Wile E Coyote has moved into colder northern forests, and homes are collapsing because permafrost is melting away tells me that you are living your life on the Geologic Scale rather than in the reality of present circumstances. We climate alarmists aren't ringing bells because we are playing in the Christmas orchestra. We are ringing them because "the times they are a changin'". Nature is responding as it always has had to normal events be it an astronomical event like a mass asteroid strike, a geological event like the volcanic Siberian Traps or biological ones like the entire human population of 2022 surviving on carbon producing fossil fuels (about 8 billion people globally).
Well, it may be a once in a generation storm that may become more common in the future but also our airlines have lost a lot of the expertise and experience in managing such weather delays due to the layoffs over the past two years where many employees simply were forced to find alternatives to support themselves and hence never returned. Basically, we can expect the airlines, snow plowing and power generation to get better at managing these problems too. It may be news now but especially if it becomes more common, it's just something else we will have to get used to.
@@NilsMueller Sure, in time the streets will be plowed and traffic will return to normal. Indeed, this disruption will most certainly be over by summer so technically, a snowplow will deal with this over time, just perhaps not within the next few hours. Wait a few days after the storm and the snow plows will definitely have addressed most of the problems. Sheesh, you don't even realize how silly your post is.
@@NilsMueller Just wait, roads and runways will get plowed, and flight schedules will resume. It will take a while to rebook everyone but weather travel disruptions are only temporary disruptions and yes snowplows do help. Saying that snowplows can't solve the problem is sheer stupidity, travel will of course resume and snow plows are an essential part of returning to normal travel.
Just coming out of a deep freeze in Canada was hitting -35c to -40c with windchill, heading into warming temps now where it's actually suppose to go in +1c +4c. These warming temps will create and feed a new storm of epic proportions.
That's the problem. My local area is primed for the usual winters that stay in the 20 - 40 degrees Fahrenheit with occasional dips to the teens. This 0 and below zero is something most of us can survive for a few days but the infrastructure is just not able to withstand much more.
Better than wildfires and unrelenting heat waves in the summer. Winter can be brutal, but I'd take winter over summer any day. Summer has morphed from the best time of year into a hellscape of drought, heat, humidity, and hiding in AC to avoid death by heatstroke. Winter never had a good reputation or high expectations, so this is much better. Bundle up and stay warm! It'll be warmer again in a week.
When I was a child, it was just about like this every year. We knew where the drifts would be and which roads drifted first. I think it was actually worse back then. It used to get cold and snow way sooner and last way longer. Back then, we didn't have so many satellites watching and so much equipment to measure. I ❤️ it.
Correct. This happens every single year. But now they have to fill 24 hours of broadcast, so they started naming winter storms, and track the normal development.
I hear what you are saying. But it's not that this is a throw back storm. It's that the intensity and the breadth of the storm plus the rapid drops is happening with more frequently. Per records, weather has been recorded for decades, even longer, we are just more precise now from a global point of view in real time.
