Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com,
Experts are warning us that this will be a “freezing, frigid, and frosty” winter, and even though the official beginning of winter is still over a month away, it already feels like that in much of the country right now.
Over the next several days, it will literally feel like it is mid-January in much of the central and eastern portions of the United States. Many areas will be hit by temperatures that are 30 degrees below normal, and heavy snow is expected in some areas of the Midwest. Unfortunately, this bitterly cold weather is coming at a very bad time for corn farmers. According to the latest USDA crop progress report, only 52 percent of the corn in the middle of the country has been harvested. So about half of the corn is still sitting out there, and these extraordinarily low temperatures could potentially be absolutely devastating. In essence, this cold front threatens to put an exclamation point on an absolutely horrific year for U.S. farmers. According to the National Weather Service, we could possibly see “170 potential daily record cold high temperatures” over the next three days…
“The National Weather Service is forecasting 170 potential daily record cold high temperatures Monday to Wednesday,” tweeted Weather Channel meteorologist Jonathan Erdman. “A little taste of January in November.”
The temperature nosedive will be a three-day process as a cold front charges across the central and eastern U.S. from Sunday into Tuesday.
We are being told that low temperatures in certain portions of Texas could plunge into the teens, and all across the Upper Midwest we could see low temperatures that are well below zero.
Of course this is not the first wave of record cold weather to come rolling through this season. During the month of October, a couple of major blizzards roared through the Midwest and countless new cold temperature records were established.
And unfortunately we should expect a lot more bitter weather in the months ahead. Both the Farmers’ Almanac and the Old Farmer’s Almanac are projecting that this upcoming winter will be unusually cold and snowy…
Not long after the Farmers’ Almanac suggested it would be a “freezing, frigid, and frosty” season, the *other* Farmer’s Almanac has released its annual weather forecast—and it’s equally upsetting.
While the first publication focused on the cold temperatures anticipated this winter, the Old Farmer’s Almanac predicts that excessive snowfall will be the most noteworthy part of the season.
The Old Farmer’s Almanac, which was founded in 1792, says that the upcoming winter “will be remembered for strong storms” featuring heavy rain, sleet, and a lot of snow. The periodical actually used the word “snow-verload” to describe the conditions we can expect in the coming months.
So why is this happening?
It is actually quite simple.
During a solar minimum, solar activity drops to very low levels, and that tends to mean lower temperatures on Earth.
Earlier this year, a panel of experts gathered to discuss the current solar minimum, and they came to the conclusion that it “could last for years”…
If you like solar minimum, good news: It could last for years. That was one of the predictions issued last week by an international panel of experts who gathered at NOAA’s annual Space Weather Workshop to forecast the next solar cycle. If the panel is correct, already-low sunspot counts will reach a nadir sometime between July 2019 and Sept 2020, followed by a slow recovery toward a new Solar Maximum in 2023-2026.
“We expect Solar Cycle 25 will be very similar to Cycle 24: another fairly weak maximum, preceded by a long, deep minimum,” says panel co-chair Lisa Upton, a solar physicist with Space Systems Research Corp.
But that would actually be a best case scenario.
There are others that believe that we have now entered a “grand solar minimum” such as the one that our planet experienced several hundred years ago. That one was known as “the Maunder Minimum”, and it resulted in a “little ice age”…
The extreme example happened between 1645 and 1715 when the normal 11-year sunspot cycle vanished. This period, called the Maunder Minimum, was accompanied by bitterly cold winters in the American colonies. Fishing settlements in Iceland and Greenland were abandoned. Icebergs were seen near the English channel. The canals of Venice froze. It was a time of great hardship.
Ultimately, the longer winters and shorter summers during the “Maunder Minimum” resulted in famine all over the globe, and multitudes ended up perishing…
The Maunder Minimum is the most famous cold period of the Little Ice Age. Temperatures plummeted in Europe (Figs. 14.3–14.7), the growing season became shorter by more than a month, the number of snowy days increased from a few to 20–30, the ground froze to several feet, alpine glaciers advanced all over the world, glaciers in the Swiss Alps encroached on farms and buried villages, tree-lines in the Alps dropped, sea ports were blocked by sea ice that surrounded Iceland and Holland for about 20 miles, wine grape harvests diminished, and cereal grain harvests failed, leading to mass famines (Fagan, 2007). The Thames River and canals and rivers of the Netherlands froze over during the winter (Fig. 14.3). The population of Iceland decreased by about half. In parts of China, warm-weather crops that had been grown for centuries were abandoned. In North America, early European settlers experienced exceptionally severe winters.
So far in 2019, there have been more than 200 days without a single sunspot on the sun.
We do not know when solar activity will return to normal, but for now we should all prepare for a bitterly cold winter.
Beyond that, we had better hope that we have not entered another “Maunder Minimum”, because right now we are struggling to feed everyone on the planet even in the best of years.
Despite all of our advanced technology, we remain deeply dependent on the weather. Even a year or two of bad harvests could potentially be absolutely catastrophic, and the mainstream media will not tell us the truth until it is way too late to do anything about it.
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I would have never thought corn was still growing in November. Especially in areas where it snows.
Maybe it would help for you to get out of the city while you still can and see how your food is produced (or maybe you just forgot to turn sarc off).
Robert,
I agree and am working on it. It’s probably too late for me though.
It’s not growing, it’s that the harvest is behind because of late planting. The harvest operations move with the season as the crop dries for harvest.
At least that’s how I understood this past year.
It could also just be made up like most everything else in the MSM.
You’re not saying the truth doesn’t exist, are you? 🙂
Right HF
Are you saying the MSM isn’t honest with us? WTF???
That’s it. I’m cancelling my subscription to CNN and MSNBC.
Everything is made up? Well, bleach my anus. I never….
The longer corn sits in the field past its prime harvest time the greater the probability it will get knocked down by ice-when that happens the yield decreases because the harvester is not as efficient in snaring the cobs from broken down stalks lying in the mud. Same thing happens with wheat in the summer when hail, heavy wind/heavy rain knocks the wheat stems into the ground. At some point it doesn’t pay to even attempt a harvest-the grower will pay more to harvest a low yield crop than he will get paid for the diminished yield. If he has livestock to graze the unpicked field then there may be a little return. If he sold pre-harvest contracts-say to a commercial feed lot-he may be screwed royally.
Look up Professor Valentina Zharkova’s analysis of what she expects to happen. It’s not good.
Bring it on!
https://www.nutrition-and-you.com/cassava.html
I’ve been planting this all over town for five years now. A friend of mine did the same thing in his town. It’s very easy to grow, just cut a slice off maybe 2 inches wide and push into ground with your foot about 8 inches and then just walk away. No watering, no pesticides,no nothing.
When the landscaping people see it they cut it, so what, it just keeps growing, shopping plazas,parks, neighbors yard.
Carry on and keep growing.
you’ve been planting it all over town & it sounds like it’s thriving but are you getting it big enough to harvest & how far north are you?
Maybe the government Climate Experts will stop spraying aluminum oxide everywhere in the skies to combat Global Warming for a few months, or maybe Al Gore should make a movie explaining why not.
The global warming hypothesis is not falsifiable.
But everything bad that Trump doesn’t do is falsifiable, Government Intelligence Services and the Mass Media Tells me so….
If it contains data it is.
Oh yeah, especially government weather data which is even a little better than Economic Data.
They have different data. Because they create it.
Yes I am.
The spring floods were the disaster for some of the farmers. Lots of cattle drowned, planting was delayed and the crops did not get a full growing season, thus the late harvest that is now being threatened.
I sure could use some global warming right now.
During the up and coming 7 year Tribulation there will be food shortages world wide. Prep now.
as a reminder the faggots at noaa also predicted this winter would be warmer than average while the new farmer’s almanac said colder than average. hmm.
This article is old news. Regarding our corn in the fields, I remarked about this in an unrelated blog: the corn crop was made weeks ago. Corn often stands in the fields during late autumn; it is unaffected by cold temperatures.
Prob’ly too many folks able to count sunspots for it to be an MSM-hype deal.
the solar output is definitely slowing down & we need to prepare as much as possible 4 a grand solar minimum but i believe i also heard that part of what is expected to impact this year’s winter is that the jet stream has shifted, as it periodically does–
for example,we are having an incredibly warm fall while some of you are having abnormally cold autumns–
whether that is caused by other phenomena i don’t know but it’s not uncommon 4 us to have weather shifts–
Solar minimum has a big impact on the jet stream.
Makes it erratic.
I talked to the father of my son’s future wife. He is from Iowa and has a number of corn farmer friends. He says that the corn is now dry, and the cold will not hurt it. They are behind on harvesting, but the crop is just fine. So this essay is dabbling in sensationalism.
Still, it is witch’s tit cold here. I let the hens out this morning and thawed bunny water.
mg,
just b/c you’re a female yourself doesn’t mean that the full frontal rule doesn’t also apply to you–
a suspension might be in order–
For a CARTOON? Jeez, do you have a problem with squiggly lines?
armstrong economics on the fraud of climate change–
All these cloudless days of 70 degrees here in the southwest are depressing.
Actually, corn is not a problem as the stalk is more than a meter high and snow typically is lower than this for most of the farmland. So the corn can be harvested in early spring worst case. It is the other crops that will be under water and rotting, total loss.
As the solar minimum progresses we will lose access to much of the farmland in the northern states as they will be too wet in spring and freeze early. Expect to increase your vegetable consumption as animal feed will become human feed instead and far less animal flesh will be available.
If the minimum is joined by other geological or earth changing phenomenon we may be looking at the next ice age. Then a huge human die off will happen.