Storm expected to cause unseasonably freezing temperatures across the US

 The remnants of Typhoon Nuri are seen in an NOAA satellite image on November 7, 2014. The storm is dissipating but is expected to send temperatures in the lower 48 states plummeting this week. Photograph: NOAA/Reuters

A massive storm expected to help push Arctic air toward the lower 48 states was moving slowly eastward after blasting parts of Alaska’s Aleutian chain with hurricane-force winds. The tempest fueled by the remnants of Typhoon Nuri was forecast to play a role in generating a high-pressure system that will allow frigid air to blanket the central plains, starting with eastern Montana and the Dakotas on Sunday. The frigid temperatures are expected to spill south into the central plains on Monday. The storm peaked Friday with sustained winds of 70 mph and gusts up to 96 mph on Shemya, forecasters said.

The weakened storm was only expected to bring gale-force winds to the Alaskamainland’s southwestern coast, typical for this time of year, said NWS meteorologist Shaun Baines. Eareckson Air Station on the island 1,500 miles southwest Anchorage suffered minor facility damage, Alaskan Command public affairs officer Tommie Baker said. The corners of a roof were bent back and some dumpsters moved around, but no roof was torn off and the dumpsters didn’t slam into any vehicles or buildings, Baker said. Workers locked themselves inside to wait out the storm.

The storm surpassed the intensity of 2012’s Superstorm Sandy as measured by pressure, but a lack of measuring stations in the remote region means meteorologists didn’t have much more data. Sandy caused at least 182 deaths and $65 billion in damage on the East Coast. Nuri, in contrast, hit a sparsely populated region with just a few small communities where people are accustomed to severe weather. The high-pressure system Nuri will help create is expected to send temperatures plunging across a wide swath of the lower 48 states. High temperatures were forecast to be below freezing on Tuesday across much of Wyoming to Minnesota and parts of Iowa, said Bruce Sullivan of the National Weather Service’s prediction center. The high in Great Falls, Montana, is expected to be 7 degrees, Sullivan said. By Wednesday, high temperatures will struggle to get out of the low 30s in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, he said.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/09/storm-freezing-temperatures-across-usa-typhoon-nuri 

Associated Press

Sunday 9 November 201409.16 EST

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36A massive storm expected to help push Arctic air toward the lower 48 states was moving slowly eastward after blasting parts of Alaska’s Aleutian chain with hurricane-force windThe tempest fueled by the remnants of Typhoon Nuri was forecast to play a role in generating a high-pressure system that will allow frigid air to blanket the central plains, starting with eastern Montana and the Dakotas on Sunday. The frigid temperatures are expected to spill south into the central plains on MonThe system was centered 220 miles northwest of Adak in the Aleutian chain, David Kochevar, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said early Sunday.