{"id":29364,"date":"2018-01-03T13:54:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T18:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29364"},"modified":"2018-01-03T13:54:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T18:54:52","slug":"even-the-penguins-are-panicking-north-america-is-entering-a-record-setting-deep-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29364","title":{"rendered":"Even The Penguins Are Panicking: North America Is Entering A Record-Setting Deep Freeze\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Even The Penguins Are Panicking: North America Is Entering A Record-Setting Deep Freeze<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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North America is in the grip of a record-setting cold spell that\u2019s set to culminate with the arrival of a \u201cbomb cyclone\u201d<\/a> along the eastern seaboard late Thursday. The cold front has delivered temperatures that haven\u2019t been seen in decades.<\/p>\n

Already, stories about the epic cold snap have proliferated online. As we pointed out yesterday, a group of good Samaritans helped rescue a dozen elk that had crashed trough a thin patch of river ice and were in danger of freezing to death, or drowning. At the time, temperatures were below freezing across a staggering 92% of the US,<\/a> with temperatures more than 20 degrees lower than their seasonal averages for this time of year.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Winter Storm Grayson, <\/strong>a very large and powerful winter storm is threatening the East Coast of the United States with heavy snow, intense winds, and record-setting low temperatures.<\/strong> Winter storm watches<\/strong> and warnings <\/strong>have been issued for many coastal regions in north Florida to Maine from Wednesday into late Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week’s storm may end up being worse than your average nor\u2019easter. That\u2019s because meteorologists say it could produce a \u201cbomb cyclone,\u201d <\/strong>otherwise known as a bombogenesis, a phenomenon that occurs when a system\u2019s central pressure drops steeply \u2013 by 24 millibars or more – in 24 hours.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If current computer models hold, that\u2019ll start to happen somewhere off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and continue as the storm moves north. Hurricane-force wind warnings have been posted off the coast where ships could encounter winds of 80 miles (130 kilometers) an hour and waves as high as 26 feet on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Already, the unusual weather patterns are causing all sorts of strange phenomena around the country. According to the New York Times,<\/a> it\u2019s too cold for many zoo penguins, which have been taken inside as a precaution ahead of the storm. Meanwhile, sharks have washed up dead on the Atlantic coast.<\/p>\n

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Even The Penguins Are Panicking: North America Is Entering A Record-Setting Deep Freeze\u00a0 North America is in the grip of a record-setting cold spell that\u2019s set to culminate with the arrival of a \u201cbomb cyclone\u201d along the eastern seaboard late Thursday. The cold front has delivered temperatures that haven\u2019t been seen in decades. Already, stories […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3536,288,1164,885,17742,1146,4318],"class_list":["post-29364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-extreme-cold","tag-extreme-weather","tag-north-america","tag-winter","tag-winter-storm-grayson","tag-winter-weather","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29365,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29364\/revisions\/29365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}