And while I hope this happens soon, I hope people get their power turned back on even sooner, hopefully before it gets even colder.

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But then throw in the Kamchatka volcanoes, which are throwing massive amounts of dust into the air, causing the Arctic to be even colder and Arctic winds to push farther south, and you get a very drastic change in patterns.

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