Cold Gripping U.S. Preview of Worse Weather Coming Next Week

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By Brian K. Sullivan - Jan 23, 2014
Frigid temperatures plunging south across the U.S. will hold on through the rest of the week and are a preview of an even sharper cold snap to come, driving energy demand and potentially crimping production.

Temperatures across the eastern U.S. and parts of Ontario and Quebec will be at least 8 degrees below normal through Jan. 27, said Matt Rogers, president of the Commodity Weather Group LLC in Bethesda, Maryland. Next week will be worse, he said.

“The crazy thing is that the current cold snap this week looks to be a bit more modest in the face of next week’s outbreak,” Rogers said. “The cold coming for the end of January is sufficient to make this the coldest month of the century so far and the coldest the Lower 48 has felt in at least 20 years.”

January started so cold that temperatures in Chicago fell lower than the South Pole, energy consumption rose, thousands of flights across the U.S. were canceled, and refineries and natural gas production sites reported stoppages because of freezing conditions.

The natural gas-weight heating degree days value for January is expected to reach 1,062.9, higher than the five-year average of 949.5 and the coldest since 2001, Rogers said.

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This next wave of cold/snow/wind is just starting to set in here, mid-michigan. It got up to a warm and balmy 15 around 3pm. We are now at 4.

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1. northern midwest states have forgotten what winters used to be like.

freezing possums + bugs is better.