Super Cold Today! Post from FEBRUARY 18th

Well today was a cold one!  Which explains the gorgeous, clear blue skies today.  There was not a cloud in the sky!  Morning temperatures were barely tolerable with temps as low as -11F this a.m.  Temps rose to a whopping 2F this evening.  The wind chill predicted to be around -23F but this did not happen.  Winds:  SSE at only 1 mph.  So pretty still today which accounts for the wind chill not reaching the number predicted.  This evening temps will drop to -8F There was no precipitation today.  Tomorrow there should be a bit of a warming up  as temps may rise to the 20's!!!!!!  This also brings some snow, there is a 50% of snow which will make for some rough driving conditions.











As you see, even those poor people in Florida will be dealing with cold temperatures.  It might even get to almost freezing in the Jacksonville area.  A temp of 54F in Miami is really low. 



These "feels like" temps are really going to be nasty.  Daily record lows were set in the following cities: Chicago (minus 8 degrees), Louisville, Kentucky (minus 3 degrees), Paducah, Kentucky (minus 10 degrees), Lexington, Kentucky (minus 8 degrees), Bowling Green, Kentucky (minus 7 degrees), Greensboro, North Carolina (10 degrees), Nashville, Tennessee (5 degrees - tie), Cincinnati, Ohio (minus 6 degrees), Springfield, Missouri (minus 5 degrees), Asheville, North Carolina (3 degrees) and Lynchburg, Virginia (4 degrees).






Lake Erie almost frozen. 
Ice coverage on the Great Lakes reached 85.4 percent on Feb. 18, marking the second winter in a row that ice coverage has exceeded 80 percent. Of course, last year the Great Lakes went on to record their second highest total ice coverage in records dating to 1973.
As this graph from the Great Lakes Environmental Research Labratory shows, the last time ice coverage was over 80 percent in back-to-back years was in the 1970s. Specifically, it happened three years in a row from 1977-1979. The long-term average peak ice coverage since 1973 has been about 51 percent.

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Ice coverage on the Great Lakes reached 85.4 percent on Feb. 18, marking the second winter in a row that ice coverage has exceeded 80 percent. Of course, last year the Great Lakes went on to record their second highest total ice coverage in records dating to 1973.
s graph from the Great Lakes Environmental Research Labratory shows, the last time ice coverage was over 80 percent in back-to-back years was in the 1970s. Specifically, it happened three years in a row from 1977-1979. The long-term average peak ice coverage since 1973 has been about 51 percent.