10-below wind chill in Minneapolis as the upper Midwest braces for an oncoming blizzard:
Howling winds are predicted to develop with the deepening storm Wednesday threatening blizzard conditions from Iowa to Minnesota, Wisconsin and northwest Illinois. Predictions of the storm’s strength are on track to rival central barometric pressures recorded within the infamous November 10, 1975 Midwest storm responsible in part for sinking the Edmund Fitzgerald which sank on Lake Superior.
Winds develop in such systems as air rises—often into a pocket of powerful jet stream winds which draw air aloft. The current storm’s central pressure is predicted to drops to 28.93 inches (980 mb)- equaling the 1975 storm’s lowest barometer reading, and a pressure which is not far from Chicago’s all time lowest pressure of 28.70 inches set March 12, 1923.
Turns out the Locke Foundation’s Roy Cordato and Americans for Prosperity’s Dallas Woodhouse will be bottling some of the hot air blowing out of the Copenhagen global warming scam. Perhaps they can send some to Minnesota —-sounds like they need it.
