Windy app shows all of Canada -5 at day.
Windy app shows all of Canada -5 at day.
Minus 40C is cold, but it is not new for that part of the world. It usually does that every year. Minus 40 to minus 50C is average for winter arctic temps. Air from the arctic often spills down through the central plains in winter time.
What is unusual is if it doesn't do that.
That said, we were promised palm trees. No sign of that.
Look at this:
Grab the planet and swing it around to the South Pole (where it is summertime,) and look at the temps in the center of Antarctica.
That's what you see in central Greenland in the Northern summer.
Minus 40C is cold, but it is not new for that part of the world. It usually does that every year. Minus 40 to minus 50C is average for winter arctic temps. Air from the arctic often spills down through the central plains in winter time.
What is unusual is if it doesn't do that.
That said, we were promised palm trees. No sign of that.
Look at this:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=temp/orthographic=-106.46,84.86,353/loc=-137.047,67.221
Grab the planet and swing it around to the South Pole (where it is summertime,) and look at the temps in the center of Antarctica.
That's what you see in central Greenland in the Northern summer.
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