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On Weather & Climate Through the Eyes of Mark Vogan

EASTERN CANADA, AMERICAN EAST SHIVERS
Coldest of the Year, Coldest in Years!

Today’s Cold Weather Coverage throughout Eastern Canada and the American Northeast

Cold grips National Capital Region
CBC News Ottawa

Baby, it’s cold outside: Eastern Canada in grips of deep freeze
Montreal Gazette

New York Shivers Under Single-Digit Temperatures
New York Times

Frigid air settles on Central, Eastern Canada
CBC News

Wind chill warnings were in effect across much of Eastern and Central Canada Monday morning, with near record-breaking temperatures in a number of cities.City Temperature & Wind chill this morning



Warnings were issued for the entire province of New Brunswick, where a cold air mass and brisk northwest winds forced temperatures down to between –35 and –38 overnight and into Monday morning, according to the Environment Canada weather office.


Temperatures were expected to plummet in southeast and southwest Quebec to between –25 C and –40 C. As of 7 a.m., it was –28 C in Quebec City, or –42 with the wind chill.


In Ottawa it was –30 C, but felt like –38 with the wind chill, the weather office said. In Toronto, it was –20 C with a wind chill of –26.


Temperatures are expected to remain frigid in many areas until Tuesday morning.


The same Arctic blast affecting Canada was blamed for two deaths in the northeastern United States, where temperatures dropped to –34 C overnight.


In Lansford, Penn., a 49-year-old man died after spending Friday night in his car. A woman in North Haven, Conn., died after she apparently fell in a driveway Saturday night and froze to death. “This is the coldest air we’ve had in about two years,” said Michael Hill, a weather service meteorologist in Caribou, Maine.


Halifax –19C  –31
Charlottetown –22C  –36
Fredericton –23C  –33
Montreal –28C  –36
Yellowknife –26C  –33

American Northeast Temps This Morning
From AccuWeather
The following is a list of low temperatures for select locations across the Northeast Monday, Jan. 24, 2011:

-Watertown, N.Y.: -30° F
-Lebanon, N.H.: -28° F
-Burlington, Vt.: -13° F
-Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: -13° F
-Portland, Maine: -13° F
-Boston, Mass.: -2° F
-Providence, R.I.: -1° F
-Hartford, Conn.: -4° F
-NYC Central Park, N.Y.: 6° F
-Atlantic City, N.J.: 7° F
-Philadelphia, Pa.: 9° F
-State College, Pa. (AccuWeather Headquarters): -8° F
-Pittsburgh, Pa.: 0° F
-Elkins, W.Va.: -7° F
-Buffalo, N.Y.: -8° F

Must See Pic: Ice-Encased Car In East Village

CBS New York

IN OTHER NEWS TODAY

Tropical Cyclone Brings Heavy Rain to Western Australia
AccuWeather News

La Nina Influenced Flooding In South Africa
AccuWeather News

TODAY’S WEATHER ACROSS AMERICA
From AccuWeather

Weak Storm Removing Northeast’s Arctic Air
AccuWeather

Subzero Cold Grips Northeast, More Brutal Cold Next Week
AccuWeather

Extremes Temperatures, Water Main Breaks Go Together
AccuWeather

WEATHER TALK
By Mark Vogan

A Very Cold Day follows a Very Cold Night which saw temps dip to -20 in Pennsylvania, -37 in New York, -35 in Vermont

After a night of clear skies, Arctic high pressure sliding across a Northeast-wide snowfield, temps where allowed to fall away to bitter levels overnight. Indeed, under sunny skies, little warming has been found today with most places feeling closer to zero degrees. The reflective nature of the snowpack and across such a broad area is helping keep the the lowest levels of the atmosphere cold. Many interior valleys of New England will remain below zero as well as cities such as Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City after lows dropped to between -18 and -22F (-28 and -30C) with wind chills near or below -40C/F

VAGARIES OF THE WEATHER
INDIA & SUB-CONTINENTAL ASIA WEATHER
BY RAJESH KAPADIA

Winter is all but over, and very much persisting.Today’s lowest temperatures in the N.Hemisphere say it all !And of-course we have read about the severe cold in Canada.



Lows as on Monday (24th. Jan) morning.


Lowest in India: Shyok: -36c.


Kashmir:Leh: -20c, Kargil: -19c, Gulmarg: -10.4c, Pahalgam: -10.3c and Srinagar: -4.2c.


H.P: Keylong: -16.7c.


Lowest in the Northern Plains: Adampur (Punjab): 2.3c


Lowest in Nepal: Jomsom: -8c


Lowest in Pakistan: Kalam (NWFP): -13c.

Lowest in Asia:


Ojmjakon (Russia): -50c


Ilirnej (Russia): -48c


Sejmcan (Russia): -47c


Gandan Huryee (Mongolia): -47c

Lowest in North America:


Thomsen River (Northwest Territories): -47c


Noatak ( Alaska): -45°


Hall Beach (AP) (Nunavut): -45c


Pond Inlet (AP) (Nunavut): -44c


Nuiqsut (Alaska): -44c


Lowest in Europe:


Velsk (Russia): -33c


Tihvin (Russia): -31c


Thule/Qanaq (Greenland): -28c


Lowest in U.K.:Cairngorm: -4c.

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WHAT’S REACHING TODAY’S BLOGS?

2nd Coldest Temperature I’ve Ever Experienced
Jesse Ferrell, AccuWeather

A Break From the Bitter, but at the Price of a Storm
Joe Lundburg, AccuWeather

Monday Morning Video–I talk about the Storm and All the Problems
Henry Margusity, AccuWeather

THE EXTREMES OF THE DAY

TODAY’S US EXTREMES
COURTESY OF ACCUWEATHER

HIGH: 82 degrees at Fillmore, CA
LOW: -37 degrees at Saranac Lake, NY

TODAY’S UK EXTREMES
COURTESY OF THE MET OFFICE

HIGH: 49 degrees (9.7C) at Aboyne (Aberdeenshire)
COLD HIGH: 39 degrees (4.1C) at Leek (Yorkshire)
LOW: 29 degrees (-1.4C) at Strathallan (Perthshire)

TODAY’S EXTREMES HERE AT MY HOUSE


HIGH: 47 degrees
LOW: 31 degrees

TODAY’S CONDITIONS (LOCALLY)

After a clear spell late last evening which dropped temps below freezing for an 18th night this month, this beats the amount of nights below freezing last January by one, it’s possible another couple may be added before February arrives! In saying that, skies clouded over and temps rebounded to between 33 and 34 during the overnight helping lift the frosting which had formed once again on cars etc. The daytime weather was pleasantly mild with a light breeze and very it was cloudy and very Atlantic-influenced.

Thanks for reading.
-Mark