POLAR VORTEX "BOMB" - 24 DECEMBER, 2022
Back to my constant Great Lakes "North Coast" stories that I post on here so often... but the "cold fronts" we see in the media & newspapers as "alerts" and "warnings" affecting people down here in the lower states are kids versions of what really goes on up at the border areas of Northern Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, the Northern Michigan peninsula area, and down the chute, to cross over Lake Erie and Lake Ontario (the North Coast) from what we call "clippers".
The media stays away from this Northern border just like it stays away from the southern border, they have no clue... what ranchers, farmers, businesses, and workers know, and live through in a typical every-year North Border or North Coast area winter, the "bombs" are feared, and kill.
NOAA is expecting 70 below zero temperatures, wind blizzards, possibly 72-96 inches of snow, the U.S. Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory is warning of enormous wave swells on the lakes expected for Friday that could reach 28-30 feet.
All we hear about on the news in the lower 48 are the cancelled flights, street people being cold, or the agony of too much snow to shovel, but, on the North Coast and Canadian border area, these are very serious storms, there are cattle, sheep, poultry ranches, and small towns of citizens and schools that are in life threatening, emergency action weather every time these storms move though.
As Alberta Clippers, Saskatchewan Screamers, Manitoba Maulers, or Ontario Scary-o storms they create the witches of November storms I talk about, they last through Valentines day, there are usually 5 or so each winter with as many as 15 in some years, their lake effect, white out prairie, 50+ MPH constant horizontal winds always have below zero temperatures.
These dangerous Arctic "bomb" storms drop temperatures so fast they become deadly ... today, the central High Plains temperatures have plummeted downward 50 degrees F in just 90 minutes, even in far-south Denver, Colorado, on Wednesday, they reported a 37 degree temperature drop in the span of just one hour as the storm moved in.
Here on the Northwest coast the ocean keeps us warm, but our seas get nasty, and even we get down below 30 degrees F, our white out and tire popping years spent on the North Coast border areas are never forgotten, and deeply respected. We wish the people and livestock there safety.
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