Not yet recovered from the polar temperatures of the last few days, the country will experience a sharp rise in mercury, higher than normal for the season according to experts.
After the polar cold, sweetness. The extreme cold that has hit the United States for several days should begin to ease this Tuesday in the East and Midwest of the country, after the “blizzard of the century” which killed at least 49 people, including 27 in a single county in New York State, and caused transportation chaos.
The northeast of the country was particularly hard hit by this “cyclonic bomb”a phenomenon that occurs when a mass of cold air collides with a mass of warm air.
Parts of upstate New York were buried in snow, leaving vehicles stranded and thousands of people without power over the Christmas weekend.
Twenty-five people have died in this state where the city of Buffalo was hit hard by blizzards, freezing cold and heavy “lake effect” snow, the result of freezing air moving over warmer waters. of the nearby Great Lakes.
A warmer new year
“Temperatures are expected to reach about 5°C above average across much of the central United States by the middle of the week,” said Faye Hulton, weather expert for the Guardian.
While it was between -12 and -20°C on December 23 in most of the eastern United States, it should be between 8 and 15°C on December 30, according to a model from Tropical Tidbits.
A “hotter trend” which, incidentally, will be felt in Buffalo, according to Tom Kines ofAccuweatherQuoted by USA Today.
“Temperatures in Buffalo could easily reach between 5 and 10 degrees at some point during the second half of the week,” he said.
In Florida, where photos of frozen iguanas circulated on social media over the weekend, the mercury will also rise during the week. Saturday and Sunday, it was -1°C in Orlando, in the center of the state, while the average is normally around 15°C. It will be 19°C on Saturday December 31.
In the north of the country, it will still be necessary to keep your mateau even if “high” temperatures are expected in the Great Plains of the center-north of the country, oscillating around 0°C, when the average highs are between -2 and -7°C, depending Fox Weather.
