As 2000 Mile Wide Severe Winter Blizzards Engulf America, How Long Before The Climate Crisis Fanatics Claim: 'It's Global Warming'?

It can’t be long. They never miss a trick these people. An almost ‘unprecedented’ winter storm of this magnitude will be too hard to resist; a near perfect example of extreme weather affecting hundreds of millions of people; Americans and Canadians trying to celebrate Christmas, no less. No matter that it involves extreme cold temperatures; the climate crisis fanatics have their pseudoscientific theories to explain why exceptionally cold air can find its way south because of so called Arctic Amplification (accelerated warming of the Arctic regions) affecting the configuration of the Jet Stream in mid-latitudes. I’m almost certain that they will invoke those theories very soon and add to them by claiming that global warming was responsible for the ‘unprecedented’ scale and ferocity of this particular winter storm. No hint of it yet from the BBC or Guardian, but just wait.

Some 200 million Americans are feeling the icy grip of a massive winter storm that has been linked to at least 12 deaths ahead of the holiday weekend.

More than 1.5 million people lost power and thousands of flights were cancelled on Friday.

The vast storm extends more than 2,000 miles (3,200km) from Texas to Quebec.

A bomb cyclone, when atmospheric pressure plummets, has brought blizzard conditions to the Great Lakes on the US-Canada border.

In Canada, Ontario and Quebec were bearing the brunt of the Arctic blast, with power cut to hundreds of thousands.

Much of the rest of the country, from British Columbia to Newfoundland, was under extreme cold and winter storm warnings.

The US National Weather Service (NWS) said its Friday map "depicts one of the greatest extents of winter weather warnings and advisories ever".

Even the usually milder southern states of Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and Georgia were experiencing hard-freeze warnings.

The NWS says more than 100 daily cold temperature records could be tied or broken over the next few days. Decades-old records have already been matched:

I expect something like ‘Bomb Cyclones Becoming More Deadly Due To Global Warming’, or similar very soon.

Here’s what the Graun is saying:

Forecasters had said the scale of the weather pattern was nearly unprecedented in its scope, exposing than 200 million people – about 60% of the US population – to some sort of winter advisory or warning. The weather service’s map “depicts one of the greatest extents of winter weather warnings and advisories ever,” forecasters said.

Temperatures in Colorado on Thursday dipped to a record-breaking low of -9F (-22.7C) from 42F (5.5C), while Cheyenne, Wyoming, recorded its greatest one-hour temperature drop, plunging from 43F to 3F in the space of 30 minutes.

New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul , declared an emergency, saying the threat of flooding and ice jams blocking rivers would “wreak a lot of havoc in our community”. The Ohio governor, Mike DeWine, called it “a unique and dangerous situation”.

More than half of the so-called lower 48 states, from Washington state to Florida, are under winter weather alerts, including wind chill advisories affecting about 135 million people, said Ashton Robinson Cook of the weather service’s prediction centre.

The NWS has described the storm as “once in a generation” weather event, saying more than 100 daily cold temperature records could be equalled or broken over the coming days. Florida is projected to experience its coldest Christmas in 30 years.

Apocalyptic. They can’t be seen to be declaring plain old winter weather emergencies without simultaneously declaring a climate emergency, they just can’t. They won’t miss this opportunity, believe me.