Meanwhile powerful storms swept through western Europe, France, the U.K., Ireland, Netherlands, and Germany. One difference are the rather mild temperatures in Europe compared to U.S. Arctic cold.

• The storm Eleanor sweeps France with gusts of 200 km/h http://www.france24.com/fr/20180103-tempete-eleanor-balaie-france-vents-200-kmh-corse-alpes-maritimes
• Anchorage, Alaska, was warmer Tuesday than Jacksonville, Florida https://apnews.com/d7809e71d48d44399966aabfce26115e
• Global Jet Stream maps http://squall.sfsu.edu/crws/jetstream.html
• Germany braces for Storm Burglind on Wednesday https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/germany-braces-for-damaging-winds-from-storm-burglind-on-wednesday/70003720
• Live: Storm Eleanor batters Britain with violent 100mph winds leaving thousands of homes without power http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/storm-eleanor-live-uk-weather-11788679
• Cyclone’ to blast East Coast before polar vortex uncorks tremendous cold late this week https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/01/02/monster-storm-to-blast-east-coast-before-polar-vortex-uncorks-tremendous-cold-late-this-week
• Animation of low-level wind speed showing the development of the massive circulation https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/948311209970978822
• Hansen: Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/16/3761/2016/acp-16-3761-2016.pdf
• All day Thursday meteorologists are going to be glued to the new GOES-East satellite https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/948255400851378176
• Snow expected in Charleston, Savannah http://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/02/us/cold-weather-continues/index.html