What is the Polar Vortex?
If you are reading this you are probably cold and I mean really, really cold most likely record breaking cold. With this super cold front blasting us down the single digits and with the 10-20 degrees of wind chill, Leopard Stadium is looking more like the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field made a trip a few thousand miles south. What is a Polar Vortex you might be asking, and it’s nothing more than a cold front, except instead of our usual fronts that come from Alaska and lower to mid Canada, this is coming straight from the top, the North Pole. Now these vortices are not a rare event as there are a few every year, it’s rare in the fact that it’s coming so far south, as the last major one happened in 2014. To calm any concerns, no this is not like The Day After Tomorrow, and the whole premise behind that is actually physically impossible, you aren’t gonna freeze instantly in place, even though you might feel like it’s happening. My recommendations on how to get through this; Make sure you stay warm, drip your external faucets so they don’t freeze your pipes, and stay off the road as any precipitation that falls will freeze and make the roads as slick as glass, just ride this one out at home and stay warm.
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Even though it may seem like the cold outside won’t go away fast enough, fret not the cold will be retreating as the temps will be slowly rising back to normal and by Saturday will have a high in the high 50’s and low in the mid 40’s. I can’t accurately give you an accurate temp for Tuesday through Thursday as this event is just too unpredictable, case in point I have 3 different high temps for Wednesday, 28, 36, and 50, so I do not want to give y’all some numbers that I cannot confirm. What I do know though is that it will be cold but rising. There are no astronomical events to report. Thanks and Gig’em!