People across the country and digging into their closets for gloves and scarves ahead of the arrival of the first polar plunge of the season this week.
In what is being described as the coldest arctic blast since last winter, cities as far apart as Seattle and Chicago are expecting to cop a snow-coating in the coming days.
The cold is expected to stick around next week as well, near freezing and below temperatures forecast in New York, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, Massachusetts, Michigan and Tennessee until Thursday.
But the cities to cop the cold in the next few days are those across the Northern High Plains in Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Texas, Wyoming, and other places, will be as much as 35 degrees colder than average for this time of year, according to theNational Weather Service.
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Yep winter has arrived, just as it has for the past …… years.
Some places are colder than usual, and some are warmer, but most just stay the same. No climate change here.
In fact, in these southern appalachians I could use a little global warming, as the low this weekend was 15 degrees; which takes a toll on my firewood supplies.