Ruh-roh. Sounds like more #Temperature #RollerCoasters are in the works... Freezing one day, boiling the next. Not good...

Meteorologist warns 'highly unusual' US winter pattern shift is coming

Story by Everett Sloane, 2/5/2026

"A sharp, late-season flip in the jet stream is setting up a winter pattern that looks very different from the one that opened the year, and forecasters say it is not business as usual. A leading Meteorologist has described the looming shift as 'highly unusual,' warning that a distorted #PolarVortex and a recharged storm track could rearrange who gets buried in snow and who finally thaws out. The stakes range from #water supplies in the mountains of the western United States to #EnergyDemand and even #wildlife stress in places that are not built for #ArcticAir.

"The core of the coming change is a dramatic reconfiguration of the polar vortex and the jet stream that steers storms across North America. Instead of a simple, locked-in cold pool over the eastern half of the country, forecasters describe a stretched and wobbling circulation that can send frigid air plunging south while allowing pockets of warmth to surge north. One Meteorologist has framed the setup as 'Highly unusual,' noting that winter weather across the United States is about to change in a big way as the upper-level flow reorganizes over the central and eastern states, a shift detailed in a recent analysis. Instead of the gradual, predictable evolution that textbooks once suggested, the atmosphere is pivoting quickly, with cold and warmth trading places in a matter of days."

Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/meteorologist-warns-highly-unusual-us-winter-pattern-shift-is-coming/

#ExtremeTemperatures #UnpredictableWeather #USWeather #USWx #ClimateChange #ExtremeCold #WeatherWhiplash #ClimateChangeWeatherWheel

Today was so hot I had to take off my scarf. I’m not built for these balmy 29°F heatwaves. 🥵❄️

#WinterWeather #ColdWeatherProblems #NewYorkWeather #ChronicIllness #Sarcoidosis #HeartFailure #ChronicIllnessHumor #DailyLife #WeatherWhiplash #ScarfLife

Looks Outside: 80.8F

Looks at forecast for Tuesday: Atmospheric River

Looks Outside: 80.8F

(fine, we can use the atmospheric river)

#CAwx #WeatherWhiplash

We saw a lot of this last year... Not good for the plants (or critters). Temperature extremes can cause hibernating/dormant life-forms to wake up before winter is over!

Experts issue warning about powerful weather phenomenon that could soon impact US: 'This looks to be a prolonged event'

Story by Timothy McGill, November 20, 2025

Excerpt: "The forecast now is calling for the country's rollercoaster ride of temperatures to continue. Weather whiplash saw at least 90 cold records fall from Nov. 9-12, followed by at least 40 record highs broken in a single day, only around a week later. The U.S. could now be on the cusp of a record-breaking cold snap settling in about a week from now.

"Our overheating planet is weakening and destabilizing the #PolarVortex, driven by changes in the Arctic. The region is warming almost four times faster than the global average. Our warming world is supercharging this phenomenon known as #ArcticAmplification."

https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/sudden-stratospheric-warming-arctic-weather-patterns/

#ClimateChange #ExtremeTemperatures #WeatherWhiplash #TemperatureExtremes #ClimateChangeWeatherWheel

I was on BBC Radio Scotland last week talking about whether the recent very sunny & dry followed by wet weather in Scotland & rUK has been a case of "weather whiplash" - you can listen in here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002cpq0, & read my write-up: https://medium.com/p/82e39321740c

#WeatherWhiplash #ClimateChange #Climate #Weather #SciComm

Since I refuse to go back to bed, Prince has decided that sleeping on top of the human bed isn't going to be as nice as he had thought, and he has retreated to his little kitty bed in the cave underneath the human bed.

Meanwhile, I'm thinking about the weird weather. Those who still think that #ClimateChange isn't going to be a big problem in Central Europe have no idea what's coming. A day ago we thought we might get temperatures as low as -20°C very soon, today it looks more like we're going to have +20°C instead.
This is the current state of the global climate regime, and it's not going to get much better for hundreds of years, provided we do everything we can to help the biosphere heal itself and sequester carbon while doing so; otherwise it'll be thousands or even tens of thousands of years before it gets any better. Just think about it.
We're lucky if we get only the +20°C _or_ the -20°C this time. Getting hit first with one and then with the other is something we will have to deal with in the future, as it will eventually happen in late winters and early springs in the future. And it will be fucking deadly to many organisms out there, including our food. If you think food is too expensive now, just wait and see. Heatwaves with extremely high temperatures over a couple of weeks are also good at killing crops. Or long periods of rain that drown anything. It's not just sudden extreme weather that's a problem, it's also extremely long periods of exactly the same bloody weather.
If we don't want to starve, we need to remember that we're omnivores. Very few animals can eat such a wide range of foods as we can, yet we eat only a tiny, ever shrinking window of organisms. We grow fewer and fewer species of plants for food, and we grow fewer and fewer cultivars of each species. We replace robust old breeds of pigs or chickens with new ones that are suffering from hereditary diseases which make them grow faster (as long as they get their antibiotics so they don't die from a random germ that's making the rounds). And most of us in the West don't even think about eatings worms or grubs or snails.
Do you know why traditional Chinese cuisine is so full of recipes that use ingredients which seem weird and disgusting to Westerners? It's because there were so many famines in Chinese history that they never forgot that humans are omnivores. When the weird and disgusting stuff is all you have left, you can at least use every trick in your sleeve to make it as tasty as possible. And many ingredients only seem disgusting if you have never tasted them. Anyway, we really need to find out how not to starve when #ClimateChaos and #WeatherWhiplash kill our crops. We need to work on it before it happens. We haven't got much time left, we don't know how much.

And now we need to #FightFascism while trying to survive #GlobalWeirding at the same time, because one global catastrophe isn't enough, so we get at least half a dozen catastrophes at once, the most deadly of which is the #SixthExtinction , of course. And fascism, one of those catastrophes, will blame the foreigners, socialists, Muslims, Jews, the brown-skinned Untermenschen, the liberals, the queers, and the catastrophe will "solve" the other catastrophes by killing "useless eaters" in death camps, we've seen it before. Maybe they'll sell them as Soylent Green afterwards.

We're headed in this completely atrocious direction, and we got here because we always wanted only the moderate futures, the ones that weren't radically different from the present. Moderate futures are completely sold out though, all possible futures are radical ones.
And I really wish I was a cat and didn't have to think about all this shit.

#πολυκρίσης #polykrisis #polycrisis

“The underlying cause for whiplash events is that a warmer atmosphere can hold more water vapour. This means more torrential downpours when it rains but also more intense drought when it is dry, as the thirstier atmosphere sucks up more water from soil and plants.”

#ClimateCrisis #WeatherWhiplash #ClimateAction #ClimateActionNow #LAWildfires #Drought #Wildfires #Flooding

From: @theguardian_climate_crisis
https://halo.nu/@theguardian_climate_c[email protected]@halo.nu/113833035877986753

#GlobalWarming:
-Rainfall is growing more erratic,
- Which leads to wide swings between wet & dry conditions: #WeatherWhiplash.
- That increases risk of #wildfires.

"There is little evidence that warming has made the [Santa Ana] winds more potent, @weatherwest said, but with climate change, California’s dry season is extending into the early winter, when the... winds typically take shape."
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/los-angeles-fires-climate-change
h/t @primonatura
https://mstdn.social/@primonatura/113810787599455410
#LosAngelesFires #ClimateCrisis