Today the wind chill is 6 degrees! Single digit!! Problem is, a little farther north the wind chill is minus double digits! So I can't really complain.
What's causing the coldest temps recorded in about 20 years? Polar vortex. A phenomenon that 99 percent of us (be honest) had never heard of before. What a cool word (pun intended).
It turns out that a polar vortex is really a persistent cyclone. Cyclone!! This one initiates from the North Pole. How cool is that (again, intended pun)?
Climate change doubters will no doubt point to this as evidence of there being no evidence of shifting climate. That's ok. Let 'em have their day. They likely have been feeling a lonely lately as the majority of us have pushed forward without them.
This polar vortex event however IS real evidence of the unpredictability of weather and its humbling nature. It has stopped a hardy bunch of northerners in their tracks. I used to be one of them and can recall specific days of minus double digit weather BEFORE adding the wind chill. But as reports are telling us, this polar vortex is dropping temps to numbers not felt in 20 years. That's scary.
Sending warm thoughts and prayers to my family and friends up north.
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