The Eastern 2/3rds of the U.S. is in the grips of a frigid Winter chill and things are only going to get worse before they get better. Over the weekend, a powerful low pressure system is forecast to sweep across the Midwest and into New England by Monday delivering a mixed bag of snow, sleet, freezing rain and rain. Snow will cause travel headaches from the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region into eastern Ontario and Quebec, but the system will luckily spare the major metropolitan areas of the Northeast from any major travel headaches as rain will be the dominant precipitation type. Once this system passes through, a rush of bone-chilling, Arctic air will swoop down across the Eastern 2/3rds of the nation bringing the coldest air of the season so far. Temperatures will struggle to get out of the teens in the Upper Midwest lower 30s for the major cities in the Northeast through Wednesday. See Monday's Maximum Temperature Map.
So where can you find a retreat from this cold weather? The Caribbean, southern California, Mexico, and….. Greenland? It’s true, southern Greenland will be WARMER than much of the Midwest and Northeast states from Monday through Wednesday of next week. Actually, southern Greenland will be warmer than almost every location in Great Britain as well. This upside-down weather pattern is thanks to a negative North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) pattern, which will help to plunge cold, Arctic air southward from Canada into the U.S. Meanwhile, the negative NAO pattern sets Greenland up for warmer than normal temperatures. See the daily temperature forecast from www.weathertrends360.com for Philadelphia, PA and Nuuk, Greenland. Sign-up for free on www.weathertrends360.com for more forecasts from around the world up to a year in advance.
Retailers in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. can expect a triple digit surge in year-over-year demand for volatile categories like portable heaters, air filters and electric blankets during this cold surge as temperatures will trend -10F to -30F colder than last year. Less volatile categories like hand lotions, apparel, auto batteries and pantry loading food categories will experience strong double digit increases. Temperatures will start to moderate during the 2nd half of the week with temperatures returning to near or slightly below normal by the following week. In fact, southern Greenland will also return to more normal values with temperatures trending cooler than the eastern U.S.
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