{"id":180815,"date":"2024-01-18T20:26:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T02:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/the-big-chill-americas-dangerously-cold-arctic-awakening"},"modified":"2024-01-18T20:26:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T02:26:37","slug":"the-big-chill-americas-dangerously-cold-arctic-awakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/the-big-chill-americas-dangerously-cold-arctic-awakening","title":{"rendered":"The Big Chill: America\u2019s \u201cDangerously Cold\u201d Arctic Awakening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-big-chill-americas-dangerously-cold-arctic-awakening3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dangerously cold temperatures lingered over large swaths of the country for several days in mid-January 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A large mass of Arctic air spilled south from Canada and lingered for several days over much of the contiguous United States in mid-January 2024. The system brought a wintry mix of bitterly cold temperatures, freezing rain, and snow that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSWPC\/status\/1745938352036082003\/photo\/1\">extended<\/a> from the Pacific Northwest all the way to the East Coast.<\/p>\n<p>As the airmass came south, sub-zero air temperatures settled over Montana and the Dakotas on January 13 and 14. Air temperatures at a National Weather Service station in Billings, Montana, reached-30 degrees Fahrenheit (&minus;34 degrees Celsius) on January 13, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSBillings\/status\/1746145356788969521?s=20\">lowest temperature recorded<\/a> there since the site was established in 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dangerously cold temperatures lingered over large swaths of the country for several days in mid-January 2024. A large mass of Arctic air spilled south from Canada and lingered for several days over much of the contiguous United States in mid-January 2024. The system brought a wintry mix of bitterly cold temperatures, freezing rain, and snow [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}