Dangerously cold over a wide area.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25609411

I am probably older than you both!

As for Devon only woken up to 3 morning frosts! Terrible start.

Indeed , some severe windchill over there. But enough layers and they should be ok

I shouldn't read news reports on North American weather, like many of us I tend to focus on the factual inaccuracies ("In Canada, the temperature dropped as low as -29C (-20F) in Toronto and -38C in Quebec City with wind chill on Thursday - the lowest seen in at least two decades there.")

Anyway, moving swiftly on, the storm for today/tomorrow has trended farther west which has the unfortunate effect of bringing freezing rain into play again for Hamilton/Toronto, into eastern Ontario and New Brunswick. Should only be a couple of hours worth in the Golden Horseshoe so nothing on the scale of the pre-Christmas storm, but it could get nasty for NB with up to 10mm of freezing rain. Parts of northern New England will also be affected. Where it stays all snow (eg Detroit) there should be 6"+.

Once the arctic air roars in, as others have noted, it looks brutally cold. There will be a major Lake Effect snow outbreak which could bring up to 3 feet of snow to some places and there will be squalls even in some areas not usually affected due to the extreme cold fetch over the relatively warm lakes.

It's -36c with -50c windchill in Winnipeg, Manitoba right now with the airmass poised to sweep south!

Really ????

I don't I will ever get to see anywhere there near that ( not incl drifts) in the UK , that's an amazing amount

Polar Vortex due to hit USA , quote CNN - Coldest Winter on record, a real possibility  ( -50 to -60 ) wind chill 

Indianapolis now expected to have 7-14"; strong winds and so on.

The rain/snow line is just south of the city, but boy, they'll get hammered in the northern suburbs such as Fishers and Carmel.

http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/indianapolis-in/46204/weather-warnings-1061404/348323

Up to three feet of snow possibly. Now that's what I call a proper event.

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/major-lakeeffect-snow-outbreak/21747147

Absolutely - the kind of snowfall one can but dream of. Sheer chaos... brilliant. Imagine the state of the 'Chicken Lickens' in the UK if that ever came off here?

Hi folks,

Quick post, just checking in with all this extreme weather across the pond. As Graeme reports, for Hamilton & Toronto a bit of a non-event now this storm which just on Friday was showing 15-20cm, now only just 5cm and freezing rain into the mix but only for a hour or two unlike the pre-xmas storm. We got an upgrade back in December with the 30cm+ snowevent so swings and roundabouts for the GTA with this one.

Cold set to re-appear in spades, some very low temps earlier in the week, the -37c at Ottawa on Thursday morning stood out for me  by jings thats cold for a major metro city in Ontario!! With the cold this week, the lake effect snow. Expect to see mammoth snow amounts in the usual hotspots up in Cottage country and down in the Tug Hill Plateau in NY state.

By the way, still raining in Ayrshire - got soaked walking the dog earlier.....

Take Care

Up to three feet of snow possibly. Now that's what I call a proper event.

Originally Posted by: four 

 

Absolutely - the kind of snowfall one can but dream of. Sheer chaos... brilliant. Imagine the state of the 'Chicken Lickens' in the UK if that ever came off here?

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 

I know it's only hypothetical but that would stress many UK building roofs beyond the designed capability.
Flat roofs particularly such as supermarkets and out of town strores would be collapsing widely.
Out typical narrow residential streets jammed with cars both sides would be completely impassable probably for weeks.

In 2010 there was about 2 feet here and the next village - which has cars parked both sides could no longer be ploughed without damaging them so they called in a farm contractor who spent a day loading it all into trailers and tipped it away.
That wouldn't work too well in London 

Originally Posted by: SEMerc 

So be it - the more chaos the better as far as I'm concerned!!

Wasn't it only three or four years ago, that lake effect snow fell to a depth exceeding ten feet? Whatever it was, it was a lot more than three feet.

Up to three feet of snow possibly. Now that's what I call a proper event.

Originally Posted by: four 

 

Absolutely - the kind of snowfall one can but dream of. Sheer chaos... brilliant. Imagine the state of the 'Chicken Lickens' in the UK if that ever came off here?

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 

I know it's only hypothetical but that would stress many UK building roofs beyond the designed capability.
Flat roofs particularly such as supermarkets and out of town strores would be collapsing widely.
Out typical narrow residential streets jammed with cars both sides would be completely impassable probably for weeks.

In 2010 there was about 2 feet here and the next village - which has cars parked both sides could no longer be ploughed without damaging them so they called in a farm contractor who spent a day loading it all into trailers and tipped it away.
That wouldn't work too well in London 

Originally Posted by: SEMerc 

Well without the using the old Network Rail analogy it would depend on if it was the 'wrong' type of snow. If you had the same bitterly cold conditions over here the snow would be like candyfloss. (I don't know why but the snow that comes off the lakes is of a different texture than even the stuff from your usual storm.)

If, on the other hand, it was the wet stuff falling at or just below freezing, then you're absolutely right.

Be absolutely fantastic , If that meant another 10 mild winters to follow I would take that

I've seen three feet overnight out there.

I remember another time when they let us home from school early (most unusual) because a blizzard was moving in. I lived about a 10 min walk from home and duly headed off through the local estate. I walked and walked (about 30 mins now), the snow cleared enough for me to see the houses and I quickly realised I had been walkiing around in circles.

Brilliant

Weather warning from Native American channel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8hGIF9FljM

Quality, you can imagine Tommy Schacajdpfjapjhhaker coming on the Beeb and saying that

Certainly not as good as this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MzV8wrnLfS4

Excellent