February 15, 20151330.18z
UNISYS North and West Water Vapor Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)
The reason it is so dangerous is because the jet stream is no longer moving air masses around the globe. The only physics moving air masses around the world is Coriolis.
The cold is displaced from the Arctic Circle. This level of freezing occurred over Lake Michigan last year. Basically, the air mass Boston is experiencing was stalled over the Midwest last year. The cold and dense air mass has moved only about 1000 miles since last year. The Midwest experienced wind chill to - (negative) 60 degrees. The population exposed to those temperatures was far smaller than the metropolitan areas in NYC and Boston.
If this trend is the new physics of Earth, NYC and Boston should have a milder winter next year and the air mass will have moved closer to Iceland and Europe. However, there is no reason to believe the ocean will hold it's dynamics so much as land. That said, the outcomes may not be as predictable as I have just stated.
This dynamic is what is causing the incremental slowing of Earth's ROTATION. Not orbit. The air mass is dragging against the surface of Earth and is moved only by Coriolis, so therefore the air mass has a direct effect on Earth's Coriolis.
February 16, 20151330.18z
UNISYS water vapor GOES East satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)
The Jet Stream still exists, but, it's velocity has little effect on high tropospheric vortexes. The vortexes overrides the effects of the Jet Stream. It was the Jet Stream that moved air masses before and was not a drag on Earth's surface.
This is a deterioration of Earth's atmospheres. There is this extreme in the winter and in summer there was a dual tornado system that lasted more than 24 hours.
The effect of anthropogenic global warming is obvious. This level of CO2 and other greenhouse gases has never been this high in Earth's history.
