{"id":38832,"date":"2025-02-22T02:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38832"},"modified":"2025-02-22T05:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T11:08:09","slug":"record-breaking-arctic-blast-to-end-warmup-finally-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38832","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking Arctic blast to end, warmup finally on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Nineteen states from Nebraska to Florida are facing cold weather alerts on Friday morning as a relentless&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/stay-warm-holiday-weekend-frigid-weather-grips-us\/story?id=52042693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arctic blast<\/a>&nbsp;persists &#8212; but a warmup is finally on the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Friday marks the fourth morning in a row of record-low temperatures across the central U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Cities across the Plains and the South broke or tied their record-low temperatures on Friday: Lincoln, Nebraska, at negative 17 degrees; Kansas City, Missouri, at negative 5 degrees; Memphis, Tennessee, at 15 degrees; and Birmingham, Alabama, at 17 degrees.<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/stay-warm-holiday-weekend-frigid-weather-grips-us\/story?id=52042693\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The warmup will begin this weekend across the Heartland and the South, with temperatures climbing to the 50s in Kansas City and 60s in Austin by Sunday. By next week, Kansas City will reach the 60s and Austin will warm up to the 70s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The mild weather will even reach the north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">By Monday, Chicago could warm up to close to 50 degrees. By Tuesday, New York City could climb to 50 degrees and Washington, D.C., could rise to the balmy 60s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/record-breaking-arctic-blast-end-warmup-finally\/story?id=119038634\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nineteen states from Nebraska to Florida are facing cold weather alerts on Friday morning as a relentless&nbsp;Arctic blast&nbsp;persists &#8212; but a warmup is finally on the way. Friday marks the fourth morning in a row of record-low temperatures across the central U.S. Cities across the Plains and the South broke or tied their record-low temperatures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[25407,7381,2365],"class_list":["post-38832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-arctic","tag-blast","tag-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38834,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38832\/revisions\/38834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}