Return of the Polar Vortex

To everyone who complained that is 60 last week and said that this normal and we are polluting the environment- fuck you.  While we certainly do pollute the earth and we should clean up our water (Flint, MI anyone), stop littering, recycle more and try to develop a clean source of energy its fucking winter.  Enjoy the 60 degree February weather without bitching about it.  You know why? 

NWS minimum temperature forecasts 2-14-16 (image weatherbell)

Our old friend the polar vortex is going to come spend Valentine's Day with us.  Like a good ex girlfriend she heard us complaining and thought something was wrong so she shows up at the most inconvenient time just to remind us that she exists.  Now on a serious note we will be threatening to break records Sunday.

NWS NDFD record low temps Sunday (image Weatherbell)

The circled values would set new daily record lows.  One would imagine a lot of babies will be born in late October/early November.  That is one good reason to be single this Valentine's Day.

Easterm US Ski and Snowboard Outlook

It has been a shitty ski and snowboard season across the Northeast this year.  Near record cold will allow the mountains to make plenty of powder this weekend.  A storm will take aim at the northeast Tuesday PM into Wednesday AM.  The low will track along the Appalachian's before moving into New England 

Eastern US
Here is the current snow depth across the Northeast

National Water Center Snow Depth 2-11-16

 We aren't going to add to this all that much.  Here is a round up of some local resorts.

New England Resort round up

Mid Atlantic/SE resort round up

Next week we get to see this guy

WPC surface forecast Tuesday 7 AM EST

This looks to be great for the interior Mid Atlantic resorts but a southeastern howler for New England.  That means snow/ice over to rain and wind.  Nothing like going from -10 Sunday AM to 50 and rain in 60 hours.

Scientist Discover Gravitational Waves

(Link-CNN)-Gravitational waves are a reality, according to scientists from an institution that has been hoping to observe them.

"We have detected gravitational waves. We did it," said David Reitze, executive director of LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.

The discovery, based on ripples in space-time detected by LIGO, supports a prediction made by Albert Einstein that's essential to his general theory of relativity. The ripples LIGO detected are based on the merging of two black holes, Reitze said.

If you didn't pass a blunt around to Neil Tyson DeGrasse and watch Nova you did college wrong.  If you did you remember the black hole episode and you probably had a conversation with your friends about what would happen if the Milky Way was swallowed by a black hole.  

Up until today it was still a theory but thanks to our friends at MIT and Caltech we now have confirmation of gravitational waves.  G-waves are a reflection of the curvature of space.  Basically when the big bang first occurred the initial energy that was released was fasted than the speed of light.  They also are not altered by passing through the various mediums in the universe (planets, stars, dust, aliens, whatever) so we will have more information about the universe.  

Physics professor Szabolcs Marka explained it like this

"And when we hear the universe, we will learn about the secret life of black holes -- their birth, their death, their marriage, their feeding. We will hear when a black hole eats a neutron star," Marka said. "Nobody has 'seen' that before. We will not only understand it, we will 'see' it. It's the most fascinating thing I can imagine."\

The discovery of G-waves makes scientists the NSA and black holes are the American people.  Lets see what Eddie Snowden has to say about that.