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not bad enough to bother much, wouldn't even call it a storm

Electricity bills are climbing nationwide, rising faster than inflation in many places. The explosive growth of AI and the massive data centers behind it are driving demand and straining the grid.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/ai-data-center-frenzy-is-pushing-up-your-electric-bill-heres-why.html
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https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-electricity-prices/

https://www.nunneryplumbingandheating.co.uk/03-164921-w-polar-vortex-disruption-is-on-the-way/

A polar vortex disruption is on the way, and its magnitude is almost unheard of in December

The anxiety around this kind of forecast is real. Some remember the media hype around past “polar vortex” stories and roll their eyes. Others feel a quiet dread about energy prices, aging relatives, or just keeping kids warm on the way to school. Both reactions are understandable.

*The trick is to treat this not as a guaranteed disaster, but as a serious “heads up” from the atmosphere.* No one can promise you a certain number of snow days or exactly when a cold wave might hit your city. What the data does show is a heightened risk of unusual patterns in late December and January — sharp cold in some places, odd warmth and storms in others.

Within the meteorological community, there’s a shift in tone. Less buzzword, more straight talk.

“We’re looking at one of the strongest early-winter polar vortex disruptions in the reanalysis era,” says a senior stratosphere specialist. “That doesn’t mean everyone gets Siberian cold. It does mean the atmosphere is no longer in ‘normal winter mode’.”

we may flirt with a record low overnight - early tomorrow morning

expected negative 4

bring it!

If it's gonna be that cold, I'd like to set the record

if it's above 40 I don't require gloves

anything over 40 is fine with me

anything below zero SUCKS

My wife somehow got us on the symphony "advisory council" and insisted we attend their meeting yesterday.  It was pretty chilly walking up there.  She doesn't like that.  We did stop for dinner on the way back which was OK, but the meeting was ... like most meetings.

Anyway, for down heah, it was pretty cold, I wore gloves and my next to heaviest coat.  I have a Columbia coat I bought somewhere around 2001 that still looks like new.I laughed that it had a cell phone pocket when I thought they were gimmicks and didn't want one.

At least today is sunny, I don't see much wind, 41°F.  I'll walk over in a bit for a hair cut, that is about a mile and a half.

She's from France, right?

What kind of winters does France have?  I'd think pretty cold, but I don't know....never been.  

She's from France, right?

What kind of winters does France have?  I'd think pretty cold, but I don't know....never been. 

France has varied weather depending on location of course.  I've been in Paris with 6 inches of snow.  The area in the south (Provence) gets little winter except for the Alps.  The area to the northeast gets pretty miserably cold, it's next to Germany.  I was in Verdun when it was really miserable.  There are fairly low mountains in the midsection that get cold, Massif Central.  It's like asking how the weather is in Texas.  Literally.