The polar vortex set to hammer much of the country with extreme winter weather this week is expected to spare Santa Fe from the snowfall — but not from the low temperatures or high winds. Starting ...
The plunging polar vortex brought subfreezing temperatures ... along Texas’ border with Mexico, to 31 degrees, with an expected wind chill factor ranging from 0 to 15 degrees early Wednesday ...
The NWS has issued the warnings as a powerful polar vortex continues to make temperatures plunge nationwide this week.
As they describe it, the polar vortex circles the north pole counterclockwise. the polar jet stream circles at a lower level of the atmosphere, which usually keeps Arctic air corralled in the ...