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ANTERO RESERVOIR, COLORADO SINKS TO 45 BELOW THIS MORNING WHILST ACCUWEATHER REPORTED A REAL-FEEL AT AMARILLO, TX OF 41 BELOW ZERO!!
COLD NIGHT’S, COLD DAY’S FOR MUCH OF THE USA, BUT WARMTH IS ON THE WAY!

Coldest night of the season on the way; some locations may approach -20F

CHICAGO WEATHER CENTER
 
Chicago sits beneath the deepest late season cover of snow in 32 years; ground’s been snow-covered 56 days this winter–more than since Winter 2000-2001

CHICAGO WEATHER CENTER

AFTER DUMPING 16-22″ OF SNOW ACROSS OKLAHOMA, KANSAS, THE MJAOR STORM NOW ROLLS INTO DIXIE, ALREADY REPORTS OF 24″ IN 3 LOCALES IN ARKANSAS, MEMPHIS, ATLANTA NEXT UP!

Winter Weather On The Way To Metro Atlanta
CBS ATLANTA

Arkansas snowstorm coverage
TODAY’S THV.COM

Tokyo Watching Japan Snowstorm
ACCUWEATHER NEWS

Cold Wave Set To Jolt Russian Heartland
AccuWeather News

TODAY’S WEATHER ACROSS SCOTLAND & UK

TODAY’S WEATHER ACROSS AMERICA
From AccuWeather

Oklahoma City Snowstorm, Little Rock, Memphis Up Next
By Kristina Pydynowski, Senior Meteorologist

Southwest Chill Continues To Challenge Records
By Gina Cherundolo, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer

Major Thaw, Snowmelt On The Way From Plains, East
By Heather Buchman, Meteorologist

WEATHER TALK
By Mark Vogan

AMARILLO, TX SUFFERED WINDBLOWN SNOW, AN AIR TEMPERATURE OF -2F AND A WINDCHILL OF -41F THIS MORNING!

According to AccuWeather, during the late evening/early hours of this morning, Amarillo on the Texas Panhandle endured some ‘extreme weather conditions’ that I’ve never seen before over the 10-15 years of following US weather.

Their site was reporting heavy snow, an air temperature of -2 and a windchill of -41F!!! That is brutal and remarkable. Even just to see it snow and an air temp that cold in North Texas, then combine with near 40mph gusts that produced blizzard conditions and extreme blowing and drifting of the snow which accummulated to between 4-8 inches in the area. A 41 below wind chill is SAVAGE COLD!

WHAT A DIFFERNCE A DAY MAKES ACROSS TEXAS!!

Gone are those 60s, 70s and yes, even low 80s around the Pecos area yesterday! A very powerful Arctic cold front arrived firstly into the Texas Panhandle midmorning yesterday and as it sweeped deeper into the Lone Star State through yesterday, we saw temperatures fall from near 30 through the 20s, 10s and by late afternoon well down into the single digits. But this front was slow enough getting deeper into Texas yesterday holding off long enough across a large chunk of Texas for warm sunshine to do a work on heating up the early February air, in fact as temps dipped to 3 degrees in Amarillo where a howlling northerly was blowing, making it feel like 31 below zero, temps were registering 73 at El Paso and a stunning 82 warm degrees at Pecos!

El Paso drops from 74 to 21 and Midland drops from 67 to 11…

Interestingly, whilst El Pasi reached a pleasant 74 degrees yesterday, the low fell away to 21 degrees this morning thanks to the cold front sweeping through and plunging temps through the overnight hours. That a drop of 53 degrees from yesterday afternoon’s high to this morning’s low!

Even even greater drop was experienced at Midland where their high reached 67 degrees but by this morning, after the front swung through late yesterday and that cold air was able to penetrate into the region, we saw Midland dip to a very cold 11 degrees.. That’s a diurnal flip of 56 degrees!

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

F1 has disappeared as anticipitated. Its moving away has resulted in N winds sweeping the land areas of most of the sub-continent plains.

The system (F1) vanished fast with the associated low fizzling out, without any meaninfull effect in Nepal. Few places in Western Nepal, like Dadeldhura which received 15 mms and Jumla in the hills got 4.6 mms. Kathmandu was devoid of rain, in fact the day temperature went up to 26.7c.

N winds will cool down the plains region of Pakistan further next 2 days. A drop of 2/3c can be expected from todays minimums. Karachi has dropped to 11c on tuesday morning, with another 2c drop expected.Lwest in Sindh was 4c at Lasbella.

Cooler winds sweeping the plains of India have penetrated deep down into South India, and the entire South region is seeing below normal temperatures at night (map showing blue and purple in south India).


In fact we see a cold wave in the North Karnataka and adjoining A.P. (purple) with the nights going down by 7c below the normal, at Belgaum, where the thermometer dipped to 9c. Several places were 5-7c below, qualifying for a moderate cold wave.


Some City temperatures and their departure from normal from N.Karnataka and adjoining A.P.region.

Anantapur 13 (-5)
Arogyavaram 12 (-4)
BELGAUM AP 09
Bijapur 12
Chintamani 11
Gulbarga 13
Kurnool 17 (-2)
Medikeri 10
Nandyal 15 (-4)
Tirupathi AP 15 (-4)


Refering to the colour code of this IMD map, we should now see the blues and dark greens sliding Southwards from Tuesday night, for the next 3 nights.


Then, from Friday, 11th. Feb, things change again with F2 coming.
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THE EXTREMES OF THE DAY

TODAY’S US EXTREMES
COURTESY OF ACCUWEATHER

HIGH: 80 degrees
LOW: -45 degrees at Antero Reservoir, CO

TODAY’S UK EXTREMES
COURTESY OF MET OFFICE

HIGH: 55 degrees (12.7C) at Rhyl (Denbighshire)
COLD HIGH: 36 degrees (2.1C) at Strathallan (Perthshire)
LOW: 26 degrees (-3.4C) at Braemar (Aberdeenshire)

TODAY’S EXTREMES HERE AT MY HOUSE

HIGH: 45 degrees
LOW: 31 degrees

Thanks for reading.
-Mark