When we get a strong weather front coming from the north, bringing radical drops in temperatures and high winds, it is called a "Blue Norther". Here is the blue norther approaching late afternoon on Saturday. By Saturday night, we had a 50+ degree drop in temperature. Fortunately, a blue norther can be seen coming and prepared for (break out the whiskey toddies and extra blankets!).
We went to see our oldest daughter and youngest grandson in the musical Scrooge Saturday afternoon, went into the theater at 2 with a temp of about 60 degrees, at 4:30 when the play was over the temp was down to 30 and dropping quickly. Today's high was 25. The coldest temperatures for us come from Siberia, over the North Pole and sometimes all the way down to the Gulf Coast. http://www.dfwweather.org/wxblog/?tag=december-1983
I never heard of Blue Norther. I had to go google it....Now I know....Thanks for showing us your beautiful photo....
I've never heard that term either! I see those all the time, and always just call it 'the wall of bad weather'. We live at the top of a hill and so we can see them coming LONG before they hit.
Crazy, crazy weather for sure. Saturday we got four inches of snow. Sunday morning the temp was on the rise with thunderstorms rolling through around 5:00 am. Then at 2:30 pm we had a microburst come through. Branches were coming down everywhere like raindrops. One hit my ladder while I was out restocking the feeders, and put I nice kink in it. Guess I won't be calling it an extension ladder anymore.
Interesting MG. I have never heard that term before. In New England, when we get a cold blast, we call it the Montreal Express.
When we lived in upstate NY, we got "Alberta Clippers" which were cold blasts, high winds, and snow. I've never been overly fond of Alberta ever since.
Alberta Clipper ... now that's an expressions I am familiar with. And lets not forget the newest ... the polar vortex.
