Next week's Arctic blast will be so cold, forecasters expect it to break 170 records across US
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/11/08/weather-arctic-blast-next-week-midwest-east-south-cold-temperatures/2518984001/This week's cold snap is only an appetizer compared with the main Arctic blast that's coming next week, meteorologists said. That freeze could be one for the record books.
"The National Weather Service is forecasting 170 potential daily record cold high temperatures Monday to Wednesday,” tweeted Weather Channel meteorologist Jonathan Erdman. "A little taste of January in November."
The temperature nosedive will be a three-day process as a cold front charges across the central and eastern U.S. from Sunday into Tuesday.
The front will plunge quickly through the northern Plains and upper Midwest Sunday, into the southern Plains and Ohio Valley Monday, then through most of the East Coast and Deep South by Tuesday, the Weather Channel said.
High temperatures on Monday may be stuck in the teens and 20s in the Midwest and around the Great Lakes. It could be the coldest Veterans Day on record in cities such as Chicago and Minneapolis, according to the Weather Channel.
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It was 13o F at my house in Maine this AM.
Winter's coming....
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That's in NSW and Queensland. Meanwhile down here in Victoria we've had a freezing Antarctic blast that's lasted for days and is fuelling the winds feeding the fires in the northerly states.
Had my first swim for summer in the ocean two weeks ago, this week the thermals and gumboots are out again. Crazy, crazy weather. What's really scary is that our bushfire season is now overlapping with California's - in different hemispheres.
Climate change is real
In years past, when arctic air pushes down like that, here in AZ our temperatures drop too, but next week we are forecast to be about ten degrees warmer than usual.
That bubble of warm air from all the melted ice we lost this summer is bending the jet stream 
...is calling for high temps further from normal than the map suggests.
We're supposed to have highs of 50+/- a few degrees this time of year.
We'll be pushing 30 degrees below normal.
In the 7.5 months since April, this area has had 2 months that were wettest ever, 1 that was 2nd wettest, and 1 third wettest.
October was the the 3rd coldest recorded and we're already on pace, absent a dramatically warm second half, for the coldest November ever.
The simple probabilities of that much unusual weather suggests some extrinsic influence.
But, surely not the hoax of climate change. 
It's still a young bush (this will be its 3rd winter) and was a replacement for her 12ft+ tall 10-year old one that was lost after the 2013/2014 winters. I usually try to wait until just before Thanksgiving because there's often a last warm-up before then and I wanted it to go dormant and stay that way (which is trickier if it is covered when any warm spells happen).
It had dropped to 22 yesterday morning where I am in Philly and that is WAY too soon for that type of low.