(CNN) On Monday night, President Donald Trump tweeted this: "In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can't last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with Global Waming? Please come back fast, we need you!"

A quick Google search pulled up this NASA for Kids article that fully debunked the idea that cold weather -- and even a prolonged period of it -- could possibly be proof that global warming is overblown.

But I wanted to go a bit deeper. So I asked my friend Jason Samenow , a meteorologist and the weather editor of The Washington Post's indispensable Capital Weather Gang , to answer a few questions for me. He agreed -- despite a winter storm bearing down on the Mid-Atlantic today. (For much more on the effects of climate change on how we live -- and how we will live -- check out this new WaPo series .)

My conversation with Samenow, conducted via email and lightly edited for flow, is below.

Cillizza: Let's start simple: Does cold weather for a few days -- or even a few months -- negate global warming?

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