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Everything you need to know about the polar vortex bringing extreme cold to Colorado
Are you ready for the coming arctic storm? Here’s the latest Colorado weather forecast and everything else you need to know ahead of extreme cold.
Polar vortex has arrived coming to Colorado: Here's how cold it will get, snow forecast
Colorado will have a long stretch of below freezing and below-zero wind chills, with several inches of snow likely as well.
The polar vortex will soon hit the U.S. See how cold it’ll get where you live
The most unusually cold air in the Northern Hemisphere will be over the United States early next week, bringing dangerously frigid conditions.
A powerful Polar Vortex in the stratosphere brings frigid temperatures to US
The freezing temperatures will move eastward, reaching locations like Philadelphia, where daytime highs will only reach the upper teens. The polar vortex is a gigantic circular upper-air weather pattern in the Arctic that envelops the North Pole.
Map Shows Coldest Places in US as Polar Vortex Descends
In Indiana, around zero degrees was likely, the map showed, with temperatures of around three degrees possible in Northern Maine. Northern Georgia would see temperatures around 16, and in Colorado, the map showed that some areas would see -9.
Is New York in a polar vortex?
Arctic air has brought chilling temperatures as low as 12 degrees in New York City on Monday night but are we in a polar vortex? A polar vortex settled its way over New York City and New Jersey following Sunday’s snow storm,
The science behind the polar vortex
Meteorologist Travis Clark-Smith dives into what caused our recent cold snap.
What is a polar vortex?
This blast of frozen temperatures is tied to a polar vortex... but what is that? Air spins around the notoriously cold North and South Poles. When the air is spinning fast, it's stable, but when it is weakest,
Hospitals pause services amid polar vortex
Extreme cold weather forces hospitals to reduce services, including elective surgeries, as polar vortex hits U.S. and disrupts healthcare operations.
Colorado Public Radio3d
With a final sub-zero blast, polar vortex on its way out of Colorado
Still, several Colorado school districts will start late on Tuesday as the state waits out the last of subzero temperatures.
2 places in Colorado got below -40
Here are the lowest temperatures across Colorado on Tuesday morning, according to the National Weather Service.
Plunging temps from polar vortex could cause icy metro Denver commute Friday night
It’s going to be a rude awakening tomorrow — a full taste of winter, for sure,” National Weather Service meteorologist says ...
Fort Collins Coloradoan7d
Colorado will be bitter cold but a polar vortex it is not
Colorado will see its coldest temperatures of the winter as a mass of cold air descends on the state from the Artic. But despite the bitter cold, this weather event is not a polar vortex.
The Gazette8d
Polar vortex to blast 12-24 inches of snow across Colorado's mountains over MLK weekend
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More than 500 flights delayed, canceled at DIA as polar vortex freezes Colorado
More than 400 flights were delayed or canceled at Denver International Airport on Monday as a polar vortex continued to ...
Historic Deep South snow: The science behind it
Parts of the Gulf Coast measured a foot of snow on Tuesday. For many cities the totals obliterate long-standing snowfall ...
How cold was it? Fraser's minus 44 night beats Minnesota for coldest in nation
The town of 1,400 hardy souls takes pride in the fact that because of its inversion at the base of two mountain ranges, it's ...