Extreme wind chills right now in western Kansas. Garden City’s 6am observation was -2°F with a 30 knot wind gusting to 38 knots. I’ve never seen such an observation this far south. That calculates to a -30°F wind chill! What’s just as amazing is it’s still colder upstream, so cold advection continues! Actualy air temperatures by midday will likely be several degrees below zero in Garden City and Dodge City on unprecedented arctic cold air advection.
Wow. Wow!
Here’s the 6:00am surface map. It will be a very very long time before I see another surface observation map like this again for western KS/northeast CO:
Mmmm, Global Warming……
Comment by Jim Saueressig II — February 1, 2011 @ 8:25 am
- 36 F (air temperature, not wind chill) this morning in Montana and 80 degrees warmer, yes warmer, in Alaska with +44 F in Valdez near Anchorage and Anchorage is + 30 F.
Comment by Ken Dewey — February 1, 2011 @ 1:25 pm