A powerful Nor’Easter off the East Coast of the U.S., while temperatures in Florida outpace those in Anchorage, Alaska.

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