In one of the posts above there was a Twitter account to worlds_weather and I found a photo from Russia where it not completely unexpected gets cold, very cold, below what is needed for an Ice Age - almost
On the radio news here in Germany one "expert" tried to spin it like this: "Well, warmer temperatures can also mean more snow, because if it's too cold, there is no snow!" or something like that. He then went on to say "but we're expecting warmer temperatures so there will be less snow where we now have much snow". Makes sense?
The above was the academic version and for the more easy:The middle to late Holocene (8,200 years ago to present) in the Arctic is characterized by cooling temperatures and the regrowth and advance of glaciers. Whether this Neoglaciation was a threshold response to linear cooling, or was driven by a regional or Arctic‐wide acceleration of cooling, is unknown. Here we examine the largest‐yet‐compiled multiproxy database of Arctic Holocene temperature change, along with model simulations, to investigate regional and Arctic‐wide increases in cooling rate, the synchronicity of Neoglacial onset, and the observed and simulated rates of temperature change. We find little support for an Arctic‐wide onset of Neoglacial cooling but do find intervals when regions experienced rapid increases in long‐term cooling rate, both in the observations and in climate model simulations. In the model experiments, Neoglacial cooling is associated with indirectly forced millennial‐scale variability in meridional heat transport superposed on the long‐term decline of summer insolation.
Plain Language Summary
Arctic summer temperatures have decreased for the past 8,000 years, before rapidly warming over the past century. As temperatures cooled, glaciers that had melted began to regrow throughout the Arctic, a phenomenon and a time interval known as Neoglaciation. This study seeks to understand the nature of this cooling and whether or not this indicates a tipping point in the climate system. Specifically, we use a large database of records from ice cores, lakes, ocean sediment, and more paleoclimate archives to detect patterns of cooling. We investigate these patterns, and climate model simulations, to determine what parts of the Arctic experienced Neoglaciation at the same time, how rapidly it cooled, and what climate models indicate about the causes of cooling. We find that the Arctic did not cool simultaneously, but different regions cooled at different times and that the climate models perform well when simulating both the timing and amount of Arctic cooling.
This is from November, but a simple search did not reveal it has been mentioned in this thread:
and https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018GL079773
The above was the academic version and for the more easy:
[...] After large tropical volcanic eruptions, the earth cools differently at different latitudes, and that uneven cooling causes shifts in global atmospheric circulation. Often these shifts include a stronger NAO [North Atlantic Oscillation], as well as stronger westerly and northwesterly winds in Europe that often come south of their usual range. These conditions can strengthen the North Atlantic Current and temporarily thin out Arctic sea ice in otherwise cold years. That was the pattern following the Tambora eruption and the "year without a summer" in 1816. Northwesterly winds from the Atlantic brought months of incessant cool rainy weather to western and central Europe, further chilled by volcanic aerosols that dimmed the sun. The poor in Switzerland and southern Germany froze and starved during the summer, but the following winter was actually milder than usual in most of Europe. At the same time, ships in the Arctic found the sea free of ice much farther north than anyone could remember.
I've been reading 'A cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe's Encounter with North America', by Sam White, and I came across this:
[...] After large tropical volcanic eruptions, the earth cools differently at different latitudes, and that uneven cooling causes shifts in global atmospheric circulation. Often these shifts include a stronger NAO [North Atlantic Oscillation], as well as stronger westerly and northwesterly winds in Europe that often come south of their usual range. These conditions can strengthen the North Atlantic Current and temporarily thin out Arctic sea ice in otherwise cold years. That was the pattern following the Tambora eruption and the "year without a summer" in 1816. Northwesterly winds from the Atlantic brought months of incessant cool rainy weather to western and central Europe, further chilled by volcanic aerosols that dimmed the sun. The poor in Switzerland and southern Germany froze and starved during the summer, but the following winter was actually milder than usual in most of Europe. At the same time, ships in the Arctic found the sea free of ice much farther north than anyone could remember.
This is not unlike the pattern we see today. The global-warmists insist that GW is thinning the ice in the Arctic, while ignoring the fact that the ice in the Antarctic is growing, plus all the other weather anomalies that do not match GW theory. On top of that, we have seen a lot of volcanic activity lately. If this is a known pattern - volcanic activity, stronger NAO, uneven cooling at different latitudes, thinning of ice in the Arctic but freezing elsewhere - why is not anyone talking about it now?
Long-standing records are poised to fall as the polar vortex sends extremely cold air into the north-central, midwestern and northeastern United States.
States of emergency have been issued in Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan due to the extreme cold with many schools and businesses closing until the frigid air loosens its grip on the region later this week.
Minneapolis could break low temperature records originally set back in the 1800s, and Chicago could challenge it's all-time record low of minus 27 F, set on Jan. 20, 1985.
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Grand Forks, North Dakota, observed an AccuWeather RealFeel® Temperature of minus 75 degrees F on Tuesday morning as winds whipped around at over 30 mph.