The Siberian Express - Cold!!

Siberia? How in the world? That's the reality, it's a world, all connected, joined, interactive and the jet stream has taken a big loop to the north and the brutal, frigid, dry air of Siberia is spilling into the east coast of North America, deep, deep into the south lands. The western US continues to be mild and snow/rain free with the big jet loop but not the east coast. It really isn't that far (it's actually the short way) from here to Siberia, just right over the north pole and that's what's happening.  The 50 below air of north Asia has been forced over the pole and there's nothing much to slow it down between here and there.
It was 2 here in central Va. this morning and the sun,  while toasty warm behind the glass of the tirehouse, isn't doing much but bouncing off snow back toward space in the outside world. Temps are likely to stay only in the teens today before dropping down below zero tonight, blowing records up (or down) for this late in February.  The light Siberian breeze outside will keep wind chills dangerously low all day and into tomorrow, likely canceling schools yet again for much of Va.
No doubt, naysayers are writing/typing diatribes, as I type this, claiming this cold is proof global warming is a liberal hoax and we should continue fracking, pipelining, driving, burning, wasting every resource if it can increase the bottom line.  I (you saw this coming) disagree: the global warming predictions forecast an increase in EXTREMES; bigger, not necessarily more storms, bigger temps swings, wilder weather with warming. And, while the science is tricky, tooooooo many variables to predict exactly... ice is melting all over earth (maybe not the east coast today) at an increasing rate.  And, ice melts when things get warm, ice sheets form when it gets and stays cold. That isn't rocket science, a simple change of state of the one substance that rules Earth: water. Warm, melting; cold, freezing.
Today (and tomorrow and Saturday) we'll be in the freeze zone, deep freeze, but the big melt will begin Sunday and while winter has a month left on the calendar the warmth of increasingly direct, longer sunlight will win out and force the winds of Siberia back home.  But, not today! Ventures out onto Earth today require all skin covered, and plans for the many issues that deep cold can bring. So, keep your trips short, put out some bird seed and watch the show, it's nasty cold, today on Earth.