Polar Vortex

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Baby it’s cold outside.  High of 6 is forecast for Thursday. 

It's called winter.

20 below ? 

We are right on the edge of it. Expecting near zero temps, not too bad for this time of year, still not normal.

Stay warm up there folks.

from cbsnews

How cold will it get?

The polar vortex will result in some shockingly cold temperatures this week. The National Weather Service in Chicago forecasts it will be the coldest Arctic outbreak in 25 years and perhaps since records have been kept. 

Wednesday's high temperature in Chicago is forecast to be 12 below zero. Low temperatures from 5 to 15 below zero are likely in Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Albany and Burlington with wind chills as low as 40 below Thursday morning.

The worst impacts will spread from the Upper Midwest Tuesday, through the Great Lakes Wednesday and into the Northeast by Thursday. 

If there's any saving grace to this current bitter blast, it's that the mass of cold air won't penetrate very far south, with the core staying over the northern third of the nation. Temperatures in central and South Florida will stay above 40 degrees.

Not hard to understand why the Southwest* is growing so fast.

 

*The shit we stole from Mexico: Cali, Nevada, the 4 corners states (AZ,UT,NM,CO) & Texas