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The polar vortex has returned to the U.S., and frostbite-inducing temperatures are blasting millions of Americans. Polar vortex ushers in life-threatening cold for over 90 million as far south as ...
The cold may be so extreme that “this could end up being the coldest January since 2011 for the U.S. as a whole,” AccuWeather Lead Long-Range Expert Paul Pastelok said in a statement.
The winter weather is being helped along by a seasonal polar vortex, or cold-air system blowing from the poles, that helped create a raging storm across the central US over the weekend, blanketing ...
The polar vortex is also thought to have had effects in Europe. For example, the 2013–14 United Kingdom winter floods were blamed on the polar vortex bringing severe cold in the United States and Canada. [8] Similarly, the severe cold in the United Kingdom in the winters of 2009–10 and 2010–11 were also blamed on the polar vortex. [9]
The polar vortex is a large area of low-pressure and cold air surrounding both of the Earth’s poles, according to the weather service. It always exists near the poles.
"A shift of the polar vortex will be at the heart of the brief cold blast in the Northeast," AccuWeather Chief On-Air Meteorologis Polar vortex to unleash dangerous cold blast in northeastern US ...
Cold subsides when the vortex restabilizes and drives the arctic air back north. January’s freeze-out comes after December started cold, but finished out unusually warm across most of the country.
A brutal polar vortex is set to bury the Big Apple in snow Sunday and then deliver deadly single-digit temperatures that will feel like 15 degrees below zero. ... “The cold will be even more ...