polar vortex

Kentucky's governor is attacked by a TV weatherman for saying kids should be in school during the cold snap.

Forecasters are warning residents in Southeastern Mass. to prepare for extreme cold this weekend. The National Weather Service says a "polar vortex" will move into the region this weekend, sending the mercury plunging below zero by Sunday morning...

Some school districts in Minnesota and South Dakota have canceled classes today, and slick roads have greeted morning commuters in parts of Wisconsin, as residents of the Upper Midwest brace for heavy snow and plunging temperatures.

Hunkering down at home rather than going to work, canceling thousands of flights and repairing burst pipes from the Midwest to the Southeast has its price. By one estimate, about $5 billion. The country may be warming up from the polar vortex, but the bone-chilling cold, snow and ice that gripped much of the country — affecting about 200 million people — brought about the biggest economic disrupti

If you live in the Midwest, you already know this: it's very, very, extremely, downright absurdly cold out there. And things are only going to get worse as what weather experts call a "polar vortex" begins covering more and more of the country.