{"id":43367,"date":"2019-01-31T08:11:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T13:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43367"},"modified":"2019-01-31T08:11:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T13:11:24","slug":"climate-collapse-wind-chill-temperatures-will-hit-60-in-the-midwest-this-week-as-global-weather-patterns-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43367","title":{"rendered":"Climate Collapse: Wind Chill Temperatures Will Hit -60 In The Midwest This Week As Global Weather Patterns Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/climate-collapse-wind-chill-temperatures-will-hit-60-in-the-midwest-this-week-as-global-weather-patterns-shift\">Climate Collapse: Wind Chill Temperatures Will Hit -60 In The Midwest This Week As Global Weather Patterns Shift<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/climate-collapse-wind-chill-temperatures-will-hit-60-in-the-midwest-this-week-as-global-weather-patterns-shift\/winter-public-domain#main\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Winter-Public-Domain-540x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14881\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The experts are telling us that the Midwest could experience the coldest weather that it has ever seen this week.&nbsp; Wind chill temperatures of -40 and -50 degrees will be common throughout the region, and it is being projected that some spots will actually get hit by wind chill temperatures of up to -60 degrees.&nbsp; A shift in the polar vortex is being blamed for this life-threatening weather, and we are being told to expect the coldest temperatures to arrive on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.&nbsp; But all-time records are already being set.&nbsp; For example, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/en\/weather-news\/polar-vortex-to-bring-prolonged-life-threatening-cold-outbreak-to-midwestern-us-this-week\/70007262\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Accuweather<\/a>&nbsp;the temperature in the city of International Falls, Minnesota hit 45 below zero on Monday morning\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The coldest weather in years will put millions of people and animals throughout the midwestern United States at risk for hypothermia and frostbite to occur in minutes during the final days of January.<\/p><p>The deep freeze continued across the Upper Midwest on Sunday with temperatures plummeting well below zero in the morning. The low of 45 below zero F in International Falls, Minnesota, shattered the day\u2019s record of 36 below zero F from 1966.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Please keep in mind that was not a wind chill temperature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was the actual temperature outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the week progresses, bitterly cold temperatures will be accompanied by heavy snow and strong winds across the Midwest.&nbsp; The polar jet stream has weakened, and as a result the polar vortex will&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/ct-met-chicago-cold-weather-20190127-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cdip into parts of North America\u201d<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The wintry onslaught will be driven by the Northern Hemisphere\u2019s polar vortex, the pocket of cold air sitting atop the North Pole. When temperatures rise in the Arctic, the polar jet stream \u2014 the torrent of westerly winds that hold the polar vortex in place \u2014 can weaken and dip into parts of North America.<\/p><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate Collapse: Wind Chill Temperatures Will Hit -60 In The Midwest This Week As Global Weather Patterns Shift The experts are telling us that the Midwest could experience the coldest weather that it has ever seen this week.&nbsp; Wind chill temperatures of -40 and -50 degrees will be common throughout the region, and it is [&hellip;]<\/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":[140,24245,10760,16635,24246,395,24247,4901,12750,10475],"class_list":["post-43367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate","tag-climate-collapse","tag-cold-weather","tag-cold-weather-gear","tag-frostbite","tag-health","tag-health-conditions","tag-michael-snyder","tag-pain","tag-painful"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43367","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=43367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43368,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43367\/revisions\/43368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}