A glancing blow from the polar vortex will direct cold air southward and could raise the chance of snow in the central and eastern United States toward the middle of January.
The pattern of cold air coming and going will be a theme through January.
Winter is coming; snow threat for Midwest and Northeast

According to AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Elliot Abrams, "Arctic air will leave quickly, after giving the Great Lakes and Northeast a cold shock this week."
Temperatures will rebound to above-average levels in much of the Midwest and Northeast during the latter part of this week and this coming weekend.

High temperatures will return to the 30s in Minneapolis, the 40s in Chicago, the 50s in Washington, D.C., and the 60s in Atlanta for multiple days. The warmup will be of short duration.
According to AccuWeather Chief Long Range Meteorologist Paul Pastelok, "A major and far-reaching blast of cold air will sweep in over much of the Central and Eastern states next week [Jan. 10-17]."
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/polar-vortex-to-usher-widespre/54599939

Yeah, they are even predicting a frost down here in Texas from that polar blast!! 

Quote from: kroz on January 05, 2016, 10:37:53 AM
Yeah, they are even predicting a frost down here in Texas from that polar blast!! 

I am sooooo grateful it's not coming my way....yet.
After a strong El Nino as were having now, they're usually followed by a deep freeze the following year.
Last one was 1990 I think, 3' of snow on the ground and 12 degree highs in the day with clear skies for 3 weeks straight.
Miserable, because I was living in my Florida designed motor home, and everything froze even with the heat on high 24/7.

Lucky for you it's staying a bit east.

Quote from: Solar on January 05, 2016, 11:01:40 AM
I am sooooo grateful it's not coming my way....yet.
After a strong El Nino as were having now, they're usually followed by a deep freeze the following year.
Last one was 1990 I think, 3' of snow on the ground and 12 degree highs in the day with clear skies for 3 weeks straight.
Miserable, because I was living in my Florida designed motor home, and everything froze even with the heat on high 24/7.

Lucky for you it's staying a bit east.

Yeah, we are only going to have one night when the temp dips down in the high 20s.

I bet that winter in your motorhome was miserable! 
That is bad enough to turn you against motorhomes forever.

Fortunately not all motorhomes have difficulties with sub zero temps.  It helps when you have heated floors. 

Looks like CO might miss this latest blast of cold weather. It's going to hit the 50's today, but start cooling down for the rest of the week. Maybe some light snow at the end of the week.

This global warming Climate change making cold weather during january.... Government has to do something about it!

Quote from: kroz on January 05, 2016, 11:26:05 AM
Yeah, we are only going to have one night when the temp dips down in the high 20s.

I bet that winter in your motorhome was miserable! 
That is bad enough to turn you against motorhomes forever.

Fortunately not all motorhomes have difficulties with sub zero temps.  It helps when you have heated floors. 

Yeah, it was definitely a warm weather traveler to be wintered somewhere warm.
I've been toying with getting a diesel pusher when Toy retires in a couple of years, maybe a small 40' for us and the dogs....
Oh yeah, we have cats too.

Quote from: Solar on January 05, 2016, 03:47:47 PM
Yeah, it was definitely a warm weather traveler to be wintered somewhere warm.
I've been toying with getting a diesel pusher when Toy retires in a couple of years, maybe a small 40' for us and the dogs....
Oh yeah, we have cats too.

Study the market long and hard before you buy, solar.   There are many pitfalls and mistakes are very costly.

I highly recommend the Newmar brand.  They are family owned and extremely honest and fair with their customers.  They are minnonites.  Very conservative family and their craftsmen are mostly Amish.

We owned three Newmars over 9 years .... one 40' and two 45'.  The 40' was a Mountain Aire.  The two 45' were Essexes.  Beautiful rigs.

Also choosing your tow vehicle is very important.  There are only a few vehicles that tow without a trailer... which is too much of a hassle.  Our Jeep Cherokee had a button that disengaged all of the wheels and it was like pulling a wagon.   

It is a lot of fun and I highly recommend it.

Quote from: kroz on January 05, 2016, 04:23:04 PM
Study the market long and hard before you buy, solar.   There are many pitfalls and mistakes are very costly.

I highly recommend the Newmar brand.  They are family owned and extremely honest and fair with their customers.  They are minnonites.  Very conservative family and their craftsmen are mostly Amish.

We owned three Newmars over 9 years .... one 40' and two 45'.  The 40' was a Mountain Aire.  The two 45' were Essexes.  Beautiful rigs.

Also choosing your tow vehicle is very important.  There are only a few vehicles that tow without a trailer... which is too much of a hassle.  Our Jeep Cherokee had a button that disengaged all of the wheels and it was like pulling a wagon.   

It is a lot of fun and I highly recommend it.

I'll keep that in mind, thanks.

Ready for it here, on the Lake Erie coast.  I can't do much outdoor fixerupping in 28-degrees so I might as-well have 0-degrees to not do much outdoor fixerupping.  At least for a short time.

Economically, Winter's been a dud so far.  Zero snowmobiling and cross-country skiing.  The definition of 'ice-fishing' hasn't happened.  People are scared to leave their boats in so that means hauling them back-and-forth from landing-ramps. 

Trapping has been good, but you gotta do more eyeball-scouting instead of evaluating snow-tracks.  Russia and China's bad economies have US fur-prices down to single-digits per pelt this year anyway.  Coon is actually higher than mink right now, on average. 

The annual iceboat-regatta is on January 29...  Needs a consistent freeze.  It's probably already too late to avoid choppy shore-ice.

I'll make a prediction for Ca.

More deaths due to stupidity here in the Sierra, where Bay area teens come up, get stupid, snowboard in restricted areas, snowmobiles causing avalanches, back packers getting lost.
And instead of allowing these Darwin award nominees their moment in irrelevancy, the libs will want to create yet more intrusive and restrictive laws on the people and businesses in the state.

Watch, it happens every year. Emotional pleas go out, people get emotionally fired up, demand the Governor do something, and as planned by these Marxists, more intrusive laws are created, resulting in less Liberties.
See how that works folks? Never let a disaster go to waste.

Quote from: kit saginaw on January 06, 2016, 12:45:42 AM
Ready for it here, on the Lake Erie coast.  I can't do much outdoor fixerupping in 28-degrees so I might as-well have 0-degrees to not do much outdoor fixerupping.  At least for a short time.

Economically, Winter's been a dud so far.  Zero snowmobiling and cross-country skiing.  The definition of 'ice-fishing' hasn't happened.  People are scared to leave their boats in so that means hauling them back-and-forth from landing-ramps. 

Trapping has been good, but you gotta do more eyeball-scouting instead of evaluating snow-tracks.  Russia and China's bad economies have US fur-prices down to single-digits per pelt this year anyway.  Coon is actually higher than mink right now, on average. 

The annual iceboat-regatta is on January 29...  Needs a consistent freeze.  It's probably already too late to avoid choppy shore-ice.

Wow kit, you really live in an inhospitable corner of the U.S. !!   

But I guess people in your area are accustomed to the harsh winters.   Brrrr!!!

Quote from: kroz on January 06, 2016, 07:33:38 AM
Wow kit, you really live in an inhospitable corner of the U.S. !!   

But I guess people in your area are accustomed to the harsh winters.   Brrrr!!!

It's just the nature of the jet stream dip...  We get the near extremes of Summer and Winter temps, but it's not bad. 

Quote from: kit saginaw on January 06, 2016, 03:36:24 PM
It's just the nature of the jet stream dip...  We get the near extremes of Summer and Winter temps, but it's not bad.

Extremes are not bad??   

I guess you are an overcomer! 

Quote from: kroz on January 06, 2016, 07:33:38 AM
Wow kit, you really live in an inhospitable corner of the U.S. !!   

But I guess people in your area are accustomed to the harsh winters.   Brrrr!!!

"Inhospitable"...?  We're near Detroit. It goes with the territory!