Global warming on the Palouse. Via the Daily News:
The blue skies and bright sun may be deceptive as residents on the Palouse were hit with cold arctic winds Thursday that are expected to last for the foreseeable future.
Bryce Williams, a forecaster for the National Weather Service, said for the past several weeks there has been a strong ridge of high air pressure that has been preventing cold winds out of Canada from moving in, but that ridge has finally started to break up.
Arctic blasts are common for the months of December and January, said Williams, but what is unusual is how cold they are this year. Williams said this December the temperature is about 10 degrees lower than average.
“The average temperature for Pullman this time of year is 35 degrees, but for the next couple of days the high will be in the low 20s,” he said.
But we all know that global warming causes unseasonably cold and record cold temperatures. <wink, wink; nod, nod>