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I'm southwest of you. Got the cows in the barn generating heat.
temp dropped 32 degrees in 8 minutes in cheyenne. I was outside when it happened. shit was crazy, like walking into a freezer >

In 8 minutes?! Lordy, it sounds like sci-fi. Scary. I'm really worried for the homeless and elderly and anyone who loses power. >

It is a sort of sci-fi movie.  The Day After Tomorrow was loosely based on this type of weather event. >

This happened in China, last year? 🤔 the year before maybe. 40 people died. The day after tomorrow was written in response to the climate change papers that predicted these exact events with the 1.5-2 degree increase in temperature. It was a shock when the papers came out and said by 2040 instead of 2080. No, it was all there. I remember reading them shortly after the movie.came.out. Hollywood always using the movies to prep us for what's coming. 
/in before zombie apocalypse...we all know the CDC has written protocols for it 😅 right on their website >

The Day After Tomorrow was based on a book called "The Coming Global Superstorm" by Art Bell. I know the science behind it is real, but I have to admit I had to put some more serious thought into it when I picked up my copy of the book one day and realized Art Bell had written it. 
I've had the book since not long after the movie came out, and I think it was just after he died that I realized he wrote it. Apparently I'm not observant (or more likely didn't actually know who he was when I had last looked at the book). >

I would listen to him Coast to Coast decades ago when i couldn't sleep.
My younger cousin really got hooked on that show and listened to it every night/morning.  My cousin dropped out of hs because of his addiction to Art Bell.
Someone recently told me Bell was a xenophobe, but I don't recall that.
I've caught the new guy (he's probably been on for a long time) twice.  Both times were heavy on cryptids. >

Back when conspiracy theories were fun and relatively harmless >

It was actually even more dramatic than the headline. The official temperature at the Denver airport went from about 45 to 15 literally in a few minutes. Downtown, it was close to 50 at 3:15, about 20 when I left work at 4:45, then 5 when I got home at 5:30. Woke up to -17. >

Welcome to Alberta.  On the other hand it can go the other way just as quickly (chinook) >

It’s pretty brutal here.  Calgary’s chinook’s kill my head though. Instant days longs migraines. >

I'm southwest of you. Got the cows in the barn generating heat. >

Thank goodness!! I always wonder how livestock fare in this weather! >

I've only got 4 cows on my small plot.  2 of my kids run the actual farm now.  Rest assured, the cattle are well taken care of. >

I will never doubt Day after Tomorrow ever again.
San Andreas is still suspect. >

For real. At midnight here in North GA it's supposed to be 49 degrees. Tomorrow at 10pm it's going to be 4. Like how? >

48 here in Alabama right now. Dropping to 14 by 7 AM tomorrow. I bike to work too, so yee haw. >

Word of advice as someone who used to commute on 15 and 20° days, please wear layers because the last thing you need when you're biking is sweat. Preferably lighters you can unzip so as you heat up you can cool off and regulate temperature. You don't want to be a sweating mess facing the breeze that cold. >

No doubt. I've only got a bit over a mile to do, so the worst part I have to really worry about is chapped lips. >

I’ve taken to wearing an N95 while bicycling to work.  Not only does it filter out some of the particulate from the cars I’m next to, it also keeps my face and breath MUCH warmer in winter. >

I can’t stop thinking about all the homeless people and animals :( >

I used to be the caretaker of a feral cat colony before I moved this year. I loved those cats so much, and it really made me aware of just how many homeless/stray/feral cats are out there. Now, whenever I read news about these horrible weather events, I think about all the homeless kitties that are going to suffer and die, and I get really, really sad. >

My husband and I made shelters tonight with warmers in them for the feral cats I saw while picking up groceries today and we brought them food. We also are fostering a dog that we got out of one of our local shelter that has outdoor pens, which is in addition to the 11 foster cats, 1 foster dog and our dog. 
We did TNR for over a year (until we unfortunately brought home 10 kittens from a feral colony that had FelV and we took a break to care for them and deal with the aftermath of the diagnoses). I totally understand and feel the same way you do. I live in Louisiana and when we have dangerous heat and humidity, hurricanes and (as of recently thanks to climate change and tornado alley shifting east) tornadoes, it’s all I can think about. I just wanted to tell you about those animals that we did our best to help today and I’m sure it was just one of many examples of people who did their best to prevent suffering today. I try to focus on those wins and the lives saved instead of the ones lost. I hope that is as comforting to you as it is to me. ♥️ >

Am in Denver and it went from 50 to -5 in the matter of a few hours. It was wild to see the front coming in. >

I grew up in the Denver area,  sadly I don't live there any more.   But i remember crazy days like this in the distant past. Like 60f to 0 in a day and 2 in of ice followed by 2 feet of snow and 100mph wind.  Just nutz.  
Makes you feel alive.. >

I, for one, am weary from these "once in a generation" events. I'd like some mundane, please. >

We're getting desensitivized to those, so it might become mundane
I can easily imagine us not bothered by another killer virus in 20 years or so >

You're right. Unfortunately, it's what happened to me with California wildfires. It's horrible, obviously, but i just expect it every year now. >

I live in the eastern US and at this point I just assume that the west is on fire like 10 months out of the year rather than trying to keep track of when it's not. Kinda surprised people still want to live there tbh, seems like it would be nerve-wracking. >

Especially including the water crisis. Honestly, through my life, I've found a lot of people to have some weird obsession with California. 
You see that episode of Family Guy where some random guy says to another, "Look at my wife and kids!" and repeatedly smashes his open wallet into that guys face? That's how i imagine most people from California, but they just keep saying, "SOCAL! SOCAL! SOCAL!" with each hit. Endlessly >

Hanukkah is really well timed this year. We've got so many candles in my house. If the power goes out just look for the houses with menorahs! >

if power goes out you freeze >

Layer up! >

It's currently -14 where I am, three days from now it's supposed to be 45, it's gonna feel like summer >

It's been below zero at night for a week at my place. >

I went to a Christmas party around 5:40PM and it was reading 38 degrees.  When I was done around 8:15PM,  it was reading -2 degrees, so I can relate.
When I went outside at that time, the first breath made me cough because it was so cold. >

Power went out in the middle of the night for me in all of this too. They managed to get it back on quick, but that was a very unpleasant hour or so. >

Yup, I can’t even imagine those guys working in those weathers to get the power back up quickly. Wild >

Those folks don’t get paid enough. Whatever they currently make isn’t enough. >

A lot of emergency electrical technicians makes 75-100 per hour while on call… 
They bank >

Man, I know some electricians that got called out on new years eve during a blizzard. They made like triple time, but they were not happy. Or sober... >

The pay checks ALWAY makes it all worth it. 
Tradespeople are making a killing this past year >

😬😪 some are, some are stuck without jobs thanks to canceled solar contracts or supply lines giving 0 materials for all the jobs sitting around. Source: local IBW electrician union in NY >

I rode my motorcycle into work yesterday and it was 50°. It was -10 on my drive into work today. >

God damn. I daily ride also and when it gets to 30ish with windchill it starts to feel like razorblades at night. I wish I had picked up a heated jacket and gloves.
How are you managing at -10? I imagine tire grip is a worry also at that temp. >

Oh, hell no I didn't ride my bike in today. I took my Honda with all terrains and heated seats. >

Alberta, Canada checking in here. We've been in the middle of this thing the entire week - it's about to break on Saturday finally. With windchill, it's easily -40F here at the moment. Yeah... that part on the thermometer where Celsius and Farenheight are the same? Yup. It's happening.
Stay safe people. This cold is literally killing people and that wind is No Bueno. >

Vancouver here and I’m so sad for all the new immigrants I’ve seen shivering their asses off because they don’t know how to handle winter and snow. Nobody knows how to drive in snow here and it shows >

Lol, I live in WI & have been here my whole life. No one here knows how to drive in Winter. >

I swear there are so many people here that think "I have a $50,000 truck, so that means I can go 70 mph on icy roads!".  Then they crash into the ditch and bitch about the road conditions. >

Winter is coming... in a few minutes. >

Yep, the first day of winter was yesterday. Happy Cake day! >

Tulsa checking in here... yesterday at this time it was in the 50s and nice.. today, we have like 30 mph wind, its 2 degrees F and the wind chill is -20 .. >

Hopefully no one runs out of gas, sounds scary out there >

Any to Costco in Houston and the lines were crazy long.   Gave up, went home. >

Eastern Washington here. Car broke down so I’ve been hoofing it to work. 6 am it was -24 degrees with wind chill. By the time I got to work  I had snot everywhere, tears dripping down my face, and my toasty golden brown marshmallow skin transitioned into a bright pink asian glow after a night out. >

This reminds me of the movie Snowpiercer. >

Were gonna get this in the NE tomorrow night. It’s gonna drop from 53 to 9 in less than 12 hours. >

We 
Were
Warned. 
This and larger, more violent, storms in the summer months will/are becoming more frequent. >

BuT bUt BuT GlObAL wARmInG iS A LibErAL hOaX, SeE iT’S GEttIng CoLDer!!!!1!1!1 >

Our flight to Denver just got canceled. We were all ready to go to the airport. We were going to see family. Oh well. Now we’re stuck at home in Indiana where it’s going to snow like crazy. >

I live in Denver. I left home yesterday around 5:00, 10 minutes later the temp had dropped 12 degrees. >

Or here in the PNW it's 20 and it'll be 55 by Christmas. >

IKR I was hoping it would stay for Christmas >

With freezing rain?  No thanks.  With snow would be awesome but that's not what's in the forecast.  :( >

A 47 degree difference is about 26 degree’s in none freedom units. >

Thank you >

Yep.  It was fun.  
It was 51 at my house in Denver at noon.  At 4p it was 0. >

This is best described as "BRRRRRRRRRRR!" >

How is this even possible >

Warm air from low pressure system immediately followed by arctic air from the polar vortex 😬 the amount of frozen roads is going to be insane >

" Casper, Wyoming (Mountain time)
In less than 18 hours, from 7:40 a.m. Wednesday to 1:35 a.m. Thursday, the temperature dropped 70 degrees."
"Casper dropped 25 degrees in just 20 minutes Wednesday.
1:35 a.m. Thursday: minus 42 degrees
6:00 a.m. Thursday: minus 35 degrees with a wind chill of minus 76 degrees. "  
Imagine the wind with such drastic changes. >

I opened my balcony door and my apartment filled with fog. Officially colder than the south pole here today. >

Here in Melbourne, Australia we call it a 'cool change'. They happen in hot summers, drops from 35'C/45'C right down to 15'C or so. >

yeah, been to Oz, loved it.  I remember the weather man say "cool change"... very cute expression.
but in your case i think its more to do with oppressive heat being ameliorated with a cool weather front... >

Seattle temps are wild right now. It was in the 50s a few days ago, now it's 20 degrees. In a few days it will go back to 50. 
So yeah, this is the new normal climate change deniers. You are seeing it in action. >

It’s the day after yesterday! >

I feel like the crazy gusts of wind helped push out any of the warmth accumulated in the air from the sun. It was super windy. >

I’m in Denver, and we all survived. >

I live in Denver and it was wild. We are used to quick temperature changes but this was another level. I had a meeting and I was watching the temperature drop like 12 degrees on a twenty minute drive too my meeting. >

i recall a similar thing back in ... fuck... 1973... temp went from sunny and dry 60ish to glazed ice freezing rain to 0oF and 3 feet of snow, 100 mph wind in 24 hours... I was the junior high school science dept geek doing the daily weather observations.  walking back home after they closed all the schools up a hill covered in black ice into a head wind was pretty wild.  colorado has the nuttiest weather:  rain with no clouds, 100mph straight line wind, tornados, stunning thunder clouds, ice fog, shitty winter smog inversions, 70 degree heat waves in january, snow in july.  now living in texas, we just have stupid people... wait you have bobo... there's that. >

Is climate change getting worse? >

It has been in the 20s in the Seattle area for 2 days. 25 now with freezing rain turning to snow. Low will be 19 with high of 40 by tomorrow afternoon. Stay safe those of you to the East. >

Well, we had a good ride. Generally speaking. >

Denver is on the start of the western plains: hell in winter.
Here on Colorado's west slope, our high today will be a chilly (but not impossible) 32 for a high; and 18 overnight. >

What are you talking about? Denver is in the 50's Xmas and all next week.  It's just a damn front. >

I know it's just a front. >

No,YOU'RE a towel! >

What can I say it makes my nipples hard >

Mine would be too if not tucked under two sweaters and a coat >

How does that not hurt your bones? >

Day after tomorrow about get a view hike! >

As MN here is having issues, I have to ask, Is Texas okay >

How accurate is this though? There is a limit to how fast a thermometer can change and at rates this fast it could be getting close to that.
Edit: A bit uncertain as to why this is getting downvoted, but most thermometers do have an "adjustment period" (usually called time constant) for detecting changes in temperatures, meaning that most commercial thermometers at least would actually measure a change of temperature slower than the actual amount. Difficult to know the time constant used on the thermometers cited here, but they would likely suffer from this as well. >

That would imply the real temperature change was faster than recorded. >

Yes, that's my point. >

Weather in the USA rn >

Down south in Centennial, it went from a brisk 40-ish when my family and I went into Best Buy, to near instant frostbite by the time we came out 15 minutes later >

Starkblasts are dangerous cully >

At 7 pm in Wichita it's 0. This afternoon it was -6
Serious shit >

As I am reading the title to this article,  I was literally talking to someone about the temp drop not even 1 minute before. This is insane >

Yucatan looks pretty nice right now... >

A ball drop in New York in 9 days. >

Here I am in Maine with temperatures all day Thursday and night in the 30s. >

Well that was fun, But not unsurvivable, but wish I could snowboard but it's to cold.
Ps I live in Denver >

So according to google 47f is like ~9c
A 9c swing in temp isnt uncommon. Am I misunderstanding something??
Downvoted because I don't know how to convert your arbitrary ass temperature to normal and clean metric. Metic is superior! Long live metric! >

And they say the US education system is bad ... >

Everywhere in the world, water freezes at 0 degrees except for America. 
I am sorry I didn't ALSO learn your arbitrary ass measurement system. >

So you had enough sense to realize the 47F is different in C but somehow didn't connect that could mean 0F would also be different in C? >

All this war and extra pollution is working out nicely, maybe we sped the monster up, wouldn’t that be neat. >

We are talking about 47 Fahrenheit or Celsius? >

What do you think? >

Happens everyday in arizona. >

The weather here in northern CA is so boring! >

temp dropped 32 degrees in 8 minutes in cheyenne. I was outside when it happened. shit was crazy, like walking into a freezer >

In 8 minutes?! Lordy, it sounds like sci-fi. Scary. I'm really worried for the homeless and elderly and anyone who loses power. >

It is a sort of sci-fi movie.  The Day After Tomorrow was loosely based on this type of weather event. >

This happened in China, last year? 🤔 the year before maybe. 40 people died. The day after tomorrow was written in response to the climate change papers that predicted these exact events with the 1.5-2 degree increase in temperature. It was a shock when the papers came out and said by 2040 instead of 2080. No, it was all there. I remember reading them shortly after the movie.came.out. Hollywood always using the movies to prep us for what's coming. 
/in before zombie apocalypse...we all know the CDC has written protocols for it 😅 right on their website >

The Day After Tomorrow was based on a book called "The Coming Global Superstorm" by Art Bell. I know the science behind it is real, but I have to admit I had to put some more serious thought into it when I picked up my copy of the book one day and realized Art Bell had written it. 
I've had the book since not long after the movie came out, and I think it was just after he died that I realized he wrote it. Apparently I'm not observant (or more likely didn't actually know who he was when I had last looked at the book). >

I would listen to him Coast to Coast decades ago when i couldn't sleep.
My younger cousin really got hooked on that show and listened to it every night/morning.  My cousin dropped out of hs because of his addiction to Art Bell.
Someone recently told me Bell was a xenophobe, but I don't recall that.
I've caught the new guy (he's probably been on for a long time) twice.  Both times were heavy on cryptids. >

Back when conspiracy theories were fun and relatively harmless >

I will never doubt Day after Tomorrow ever again.
San Andreas is still suspect. >

For real. At midnight here in North GA it's supposed to be 49 degrees. Tomorrow at 10pm it's going to be 4. Like how? >

48 here in Alabama right now. Dropping to 14 by 7 AM tomorrow. I bike to work too, so yee haw. >

Word of advice as someone who used to commute on 15 and 20° days, please wear layers because the last thing you need when you're biking is sweat. Preferably lighters you can unzip so as you heat up you can cool off and regulate temperature. You don't want to be a sweating mess facing the breeze that cold. >

No doubt. I've only got a bit over a mile to do, so the worst part I have to really worry about is chapped lips. >

I’ve taken to wearing an N95 while bicycling to work.  Not only does it filter out some of the particulate from the cars I’m next to, it also keeps my face and breath MUCH warmer in winter. >

It was actually even more dramatic than the headline. The official temperature at the Denver airport went from about 45 to 15 literally in a few minutes. Downtown, it was close to 50 at 3:15, about 20 when I left work at 4:45, then 5 when I got home at 5:30. Woke up to -17. >

Welcome to Alberta.  On the other hand it can go the other way just as quickly (chinook) >

It’s pretty brutal here.  Calgary’s chinook’s kill my head though. Instant days longs migraines.