Global Warming Update For Boston: "A historic Arctic outbreak for the modern era; this is about as cold as it will ever get"

Stripes.com reports:

Parts of the Northeast woke up to the coldest morning in decades on Saturday, with temperatures 30 degrees or more below average and wind chills in the extremely dangerous category. Virtually the entirety of New England was included in wind chill warnings, while Mount Washington's minus-109 degree wind chill set a record for the entire United States.

The National Weather Service office serving the Boston region described the cold as "a historic Arctic outbreak for the modern era," and warned that "this is about as cold as it will ever get."

In Boston, the morning low fell to minus-10 degrees at 5:15 a.m., the coldest reading observed in the city since Jan. 15, 1957, when Boston hit minus-12. The episode resembled the brutal Arctic blast on Valentine's Day 2016, when Logan Airport dropped to minus-9 degrees.

Coupled with winds gusting near 40 mph, Boston witnessed its lowest wind chill ever recorded at minus-39 degrees. Records date back to 1944. Wind chill is an index that attempts to quantity the combined impact of cold and wind on the human body, since strong winds blow away one's body heat.

The temperatures were so extreme in Maine that residents reported "frost quakes," or cryoseisms. The earthquake-like tremors are caused by rapidly plummeting temperatures, which cause water trapped in cracks in the ground to expand.

The city of Portland, Maine, recorded its all-time lowest wind chill at minus-45 degrees. A weather balloon launched by the National Weather Service in Gray, Maine, reported the all-time lowest 850 millibar (an air pressure level corresponding to approximately 5,000 feet in altitude) temperature ever observed by that office at minus-35.5 degrees.

Farther north in Maine, Frenchville Airport in Aroostook County recorded a wind chill to minus-61 degrees, while Cadillac Mountain in Hancock County had a minus-62 degree wind chill. Even Bar Harbor, on the coast, logged a wind chill of minus-48. Greenville in Piscataquis County faced a wind chill of minus-58.

Beyond Mount Washington's mind-boggling wind chill of minus-109, the actual air temperature scored at the summit was minus-46.2 at minimum - a new February record for the state of New Hampshire. That coincided with wind gusts topping 110 mph. The Weather Service office serving the area tweeted the wind chill was so low that its software for logging such data "refuses to include it!"

Sounds to me like some good old pre-industrial cold weather is beginning to affect the United States. I’m sure such winter weather is not ‘unprecedented’, but a lot of records only go back as far as the mid twentieth century, so it’s unprecedented in the supposed Age of Man Made Global Warming. Which begs the question: what’s happening with global warming? Well, not much to be honest. In fact, we’re pretty much back to where we were on average during the thirty year period 1991-2020. The world has been cooling slightly since 2016 when a super El Nino raised global mean surface temperature to a record. If truth be told, there hasn’t really been much global warming at all during the entire 21st century; this despite record increases in global greenhouse gas emissions.

Weather is not climate of course. But when cold weather records keep getting broken and ‘historic’ cold outbreaks keep happening (that’s two so far this winter in the US, plus Europe and Russia notably shivered in November and December last year), you start to ask yourself: how is this possible when the planet is supposedly ‘dangerously overheating’? Global warming fanatics will try to spin it in terms of the ‘Arctic warming causes a wavy jet stream’ theory, arguing that ‘polar vortex’ incursions of cold Arctic air into mid-latitudes are becoming more common. Well if it’s so warm in the Arctic with all that ice melting and Polar Bears starving, why is it so cold in New England? Perhaps we should just give up trying to ‘save the planet’ by killing whales in the Northeast US and instead start thinking more about New England and how they’re going to keep warm when Resident Biden bans fossil fuels: