{"id":64501,"date":"2022-12-22T07:33:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T12:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64501"},"modified":"2022-12-22T07:34:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T12:34:26","slug":"the-weather-nightmare-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64501","title":{"rendered":"The weather nightmare before Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The weather nightmare before Christmas<\/a><\/h3>\n
A sprawling cold wave and blizzard will bring some of the nation\u2019s most dangerous and disruptive pre-holiday weather in recent decades.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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Dangerous white-out conditions, such as those that closed I-87 in Oregon during a 2017 winter storm, could plague many U.S. roadways late this week. (Image credit:\u00a0Oregon Department of Transportation via Flickr, CC BY 2.0)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tens of millions of Americans will find themselves recalibrating \u2013 and in some cases canceling \u2013 holiday plans over the next week, as an exceptionally intense Arctic front plows across most of the eastern two-thirds of the United States during the run-up to Christmas Day.<\/p>\n

Below-freezing air will push to the Gulf Coast by Christmas weekend, with readings likely to dip below zero Fahrenheit from Oklahoma to Ohio late this week. On top of this, a \u201cbomb<\/a>\u201d cyclone (one that deepens by at least 24 millibars in 24 hours) will race from the Central Plains to the Great Lakes on Friday and Saturday, December 23-24. Fierce winds and heavy snow are expected to produce widespread blizzard conditions and shut down transportation over portions of the Great Lakes and Midwest on one of the year\u2019s busiest travel weekends.<\/p>\n

Heavy rains and high winds will buffet the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast before the front arrives, most likely bringing a burst of cold and a quick shot of snow around Saturday (Christmas Eve).<\/p>\n

Update (Tuesday 2:15 pm EST): As the Arctic influx hit the Pacific Northwest on Tuesday, flights were halted at the Vancouver, British Columbia, airport, and heavy snow hammered areas north and west of Seattle.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Birch Bay via my FB page! Shared with permission.\u00a0#wawx<\/a>\u00a0@NWSSeattle<\/a>\u00a0pic.twitter.com\/e2u12LtdsB<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Randy Small \u2013 Whatcom County Weather (@RandySmall)\u00a0December 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

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There were passengers stuck on the tarmac for 12 hours overnight as heavy snow snarled operations at the Vancouver airport, leading to dozens of flight cancellations and delays.\u00a0https:\/\/t.co\/4W394T4ihG<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 CTV News Vancouver (@CTVVancouver)\u00a0December 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

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The weather nightmare before Christmas A sprawling cold wave and blizzard will bring some of the nation\u2019s most dangerous and disruptive pre-holiday weather in recent decades. Dangerous white-out conditions, such as those that closed I-87 in Oregon during a 2017 winter storm, could plague many U.S. roadways late this week. (Image credit:\u00a0Oregon Department of Transportation […]<\/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":[31438,288,1164,1146,31406],"class_list":["post-64501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-bob-henson","tag-extreme-weather","tag-north-america","tag-winter-weather","tag-yale-climate-connections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64501","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=64501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64503,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64501\/revisions\/64503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}