Minnesota and North Dakota temperatures are expected to reach an incredible 28 degrees below zero on Monday night, and with the wind chill the temperatures could reach around minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperature got to two degrees on Saturday but Monday night's drop will make Saturday seem like Summer.
Temperatures like this aren't really that uncommon in the area however, so it is likely that people in these states are already prepared. However, if there are any homeless that are left out in the cold, they may sustain serious injury or even die because of the temperature, since frostbite can set in easily. States need to be making sure that they have enough shelters for the homeless in every affected city. The elderly will also be susceptible to the temperatures.
The CDC warned people in affected areas to stay indoors and not to go outside for more than a minute for two. Frostbite is a real danger since with a breeze blowing, it can happen in about five minutes. What is also a factor is that cold weather makes the heart work extra hard, which can be dangerous for those with a heart condition.
Temperatures seem to be fluctuating all over the globe and it might be due to global warming or other factors. People have become desensitized to reports of strange weather because it is so commonplace, but with numbers like these, those that have to contend with Minnesota and North Dakota temperatures need to take precautions.
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Comments: 38
I was born in South Dakota...we all pretty much had that down by kindergarten...
But...that was before the Feds took over the school system and turned everyone into Zombies...
If they don't have an innate inkling that staying out of the cold is good, scroom...Out of the gene pool...
A Zombie is anyone educated in a public school after the mid 70's
"Temperatures as low as −60 °F (−51 °C) have occurred during Minnesota winters"
minus 28 is not unusually cold for northern Minnesota. Global weather right now is mixed. In 2012, the lower 48 USA had the hottest year ever recorded. Australia is in a heat wave right now that has set records for the number of days over 110 degrees fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius). Weather in northern China has been unusually cold this winter.
Climate change increases the AVERAGE temperature for the entire planet. In localized areas, it can at times produce cold snaps, due to changes in the jet stream. Some denialists look at cold weather and say look, climate change is a hoax. Or they even, as one writer recently did here on gather, talk about an approaching ice age. This is not reality based thinking.
We are headed for a warmer world, and we will pay for that with serious consequences. Are we there yet? No, but not being there yet does nothing to contradict the eventual terminus of the journey we have begun.
Weather is measured in days and is local. Climate is mentioned in decades and is global. Measurements of temperatures over the past hundred years around our planet indicate that the world is warming, and that the warming is accelerating. This concludes our science lesson for the day.
Jo Jo sure it is your choice however I dont know why you would come to these posts when it bothers you so much...a smart person would just wiz by.
I knew some warmer would get on here and try to make it into something even though he actually said the exact thing I just said...
Then he had to be condescending...just like all warmers...
And then you had to be snotty about it...
JO JO STANDS FIRM ON HIS RIGHT TO SAY NOTHING...
(I AM SO BORED. I CAN'T GO OUT BECAUSE OF THE MLK DAY PARADE; CAN'T WATCH TEE VEE BECAUSE OF THE INAGURATION AND I CAN'T WORK BECAUSE ALL COURTS ARE CLOSED) JUST TRYING TO STIR SOMETHING UP HERE...
AND, YES, RAT FUCK...I AM AN AMERICAN...
I was just screwing with you...it was like 75 here yesterday and all the young chicks at the Paradise were dirty dancing in their bikinis...
Yesterday, I was in shorts.
I hope the temps get better for those in Minnesota and other places.
Florida for me...
I thought they were calling it climate change now, & mainly because the GW enthusiasts have to continue to make their arguments relevant to account for the sub-freezing temps in places that never had SF temps prior. And of course, we all know, the earth's climate has been changing since the beginning of time...GW, what a freakin' joke!