Snow and winds are likely to trigger flight cancellations and cause headaches for people traveling to DC for Inauguration Day.
A polar vortex is set to hit next week, dropping temperatures in 48 states well below their average for January. According to an article on Yahoo.com, a cold snap will bring temperatures to the Plains and the Southeast that could reach 45 degrees below their normal January averages.
Americans face dangerously cold temperatures as a polar vortex brings life-threatening conditions. Nighttime lows may drop to minus 23°F in northern states, with impacts felt across the contiguous US,
Donald Trump delivered his first inaugural address amid light rain showers in 2017. Snow flurries gave way to breaks in the clouds for Joe Biden’s 2021 swearing-in. Trump’s second inauguration in 2025 will be held indoors due to the brutally cold conditions predicted in Washington.
The most unusually cold air in the Northern Hemisphere will be over the United States early next week, bringing dangerously frigid conditions.
People living "basically anywhere from the Rockies eastward" will see extremely cold temperatures over the next several days, a meteorologist says.
Americans were bracing Thursday for frigid temperatures that forecasters said could produce life-threatening conditions, with Donald Trump's inauguration expected to be the coldest in 40 years.
A polar vortex is bringing cold temperatures to the U.S., impacting Utah as well. Utah will experience its coldest temperatures this winter, though less severe than areas east of the state. Emergency measures are in place, and energy usage may increase due to the cold.
A blast of Arctic air is set to cover much of the United States with temperatures below freezing starting on Friday and into next week, impacting millions of Americans in nearly all of the contiguous states.
The polar vortex is a ring of cold air that typically circles the Arctic. A strong jet stream essentially acts like a fence, keeping it locked there. If there's any weakening in the jet stream (the fence), the frigid air can become unstable and spill out. This sends the normally trapped cold air much farther south.
A lobe of the polar vortex will arrive in the United States this weekend, bringing the lowest temperatures in years and snow and ice to the East and Deep South.