How cool. I get to wear ALL my clothes all at once. I’m so big now I show up on Doppler radar, and I can’t possibly leave my home. I’m OK with that. My 20K cross-country ski trip will have to wait. Because only the brave and foolish will be going on long nature walks Saturday and Sunday.
The coldest weather of winter usually comes in late January, but I don’t see any more “Sudden Stratospheric Warming” events that precede extreme Arctic outbreaks. This weekend’s polar punch was accurately predicted nearly a month ago. Don’t get me wrong: January and parts of February will be seasonably cold with numerous subzero nights, but the next 24-plus hours will almost certainly be some of the coldest of the entire winter.
In spite of a pleading sun, the mercury won’t climb above zero degrees Saturday and will dip to minus 15 tonight with wind chills of minus 20 to minus 35. Possibly the coldest it’s been so early in the season since 1989. That doesn’t mean the entire winter will be bitter.
Only 60 days until pitchers and catchers report for spring training!
