People living "basically anywhere from the Rockies eastward" will see extremely cold temperatures over the next several days, a meteorologist says.
A major winter blast of snow, ice, wind and plunging temperatures in the U.S. stirred dangerous travel conditions from central and southern states all the way to the East Coast early Monday, prompting schools and government offices in several states to close.
People in the U.S., Europe and Asia experience the polar vortex's intense cold when it escapes the North Pole and plunges southward.
The polar vortex of ultra-cold air usually spins around the North Pole ... a weather service meteorologist based in Gray, Maine. The cold air was expected to grip the Eastern Seaboard as far south as Georgia, with temperatures dropping into the low ...
The polar vortex of ultra-cold air usually spins around ... a weather service meteorologist based in Gray, Maine. The cold air was expected to grip the Eastern Seaboard as far south as Georgia ...
The polar vortex of ultra-cold air usually spins around ... a weather service meteorologist based in Gray, Maine. The cold was expected to grip the Eastern Seaboard as far south as Georgia ...
A combination of frigid air with a low pressure system over the Gulf are behind the storm, which could bring heavy snow just south of the Interstate 20 corridor across northern Louisiana and into Mississippi and a mix of snow, sleet, and freezing rain near the Interstate 10 corridor from Houston to Mobile, Alabama.
Winter weather is expected in Maine on Sunday, with several inches of snow set to be followed by frigid temperatures as the week goes on. Forecasters expect snow to accumulate Sunday afternoon into the evening.
A polar vortex dipping down from Siberia will bring a cold front with frigid temperatures to nearly 300 million Americans. See maps of the arctic blast.
A major cold blast is in store for millions of Americans as a lobe of a polar vortex will bring brutally cold temperatures to nearly every American east of the Rockies.
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