UK energy firm warns about winter blackouts….. Unusually cold autumn weather to blast eastern U.S. next week

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British electricity and gas utility company National Grid PLC warned on Monday about potential blackouts the public might face between 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm on “really, really cold” days in January and February if the country fails to receive a sufficient amount of gas from Europe. The comment came from the firm’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) John Pettigrew at the Financial Times’s Energy Transition Summit. “In the context of the terrible things that are going on in Ukraine and the consequences of that, [it was] right that we set out what some of the potential risks could be,” he noted. Earlier, National Grid said it may impose periodical three-hour power cuts in some areas of the country during the winter amid the ongoing energy crisis.

Unusually cold autumn weather to blast eastern U.S. next week

Temperatures could fall some 20 degrees below average

A blast of frigid air is set to descend on the eastern United States next week, in some places offering an early taste of winter, with snow even possible for some. Freezing lows and killer frosts could extend all the way south to near Atlanta and Birmingham, Ala., with temperatures in the upper 30s reaching the Gulf of Mexico. The cold blast looks to set in beginning Monday and could last about a week before relenting. Even thereafter, there are signs that chilly weather could stick around for the remainder of the month. There’s also a chance that snowflakes may fly in parts of the Great Lakes, Midwest or New England. Accumulations, if they occur, won’t be much, but it’s a harbinger of the coming winter season. Across the West, meanwhile, the seesaw weather pattern, bottomed out in the East, will feature a northward bulge in the jet stream that will allow anomalous heat to swell. Hot, dry weather is expected in the Pacific Northwest, with highs 20 degrees above seasonal norms.

Sharp cold front to surge southeast

The American GFS model simulates cold air sagging southeast over the week ahead. (WeatherBell)

A cold front was pushing across the Ohio Valley on Thursday morning, set to swing through the East Coast during the evening and overnight. It was bringing a slug of showers and a few thunderstorms, a day after having produced at least a half-dozen quick-hitting tornadoes in southeast Wisconsin. That cold front is paving the way for a more potent blast of cold air to follow on its heels early next week. This second, more robust front will take shape in south central Canada near the international border late Sunday or early Monday. By Monday night, temperatures will be 15 degrees below average in Chicago and across the majority of the Midwest and Great Lakes. The chill will surge south and east, reaching the Gulf and Atlantic coastlines by later Tuesday. The entire Upper Midwest will dip into the 20s on Monday night, and the remainder of the Midwest and Great Lakes will fall through the 30s. Kansas City will even dip below freezing, and both Indianapolis and Columbus should hover around that 32-degree mark. On Tuesday, Nashville, D.C., Raleigh and Philadelphia will be on the fringe of the more significant cold air mass, with highs in the mid- to upper 50s projected. Deeper within the core of the cold, another day in the 40s is anticipated. By Wednesday, low temperatures will plunge into the 20s and 30s from the Midwest to the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, where frosts and freezes will end the growing season in many locations. Some models are highlighting the potential for the upper 30s to around 40 to even make it into the Florida Panhandle and along the Interstate 10 stretch during this time frame. It appears as though the cold episode should persist until the end of the workweek, potentially easing some before a reinforcing batch of cold air wafts southeast. NN: Burn more coal.. Looks like they turned off global warming… again! I am not afraid of global warming, I am not afraid of global cooling. What really scares me is climate change stupid! It’s going to be a long cold winter and their are not enough supplies.