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.
Under the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, Donald Trump was again inaugurated, this time as the 47th president of the United States, capping a historic return to power that serves as resounding rebuke to the established political order.
The most unusually cold air in the Northern Hemisphere will be over the United States early next week, bringing dangerously frigid conditions.
NEW ORLEANS — The vast majority of Americans are about to get an extended taste of frigid Siberian weather. Another polar vortex disruption will stretch Arctic air across the top of the globe, with expected frigid conditions in the nation’s capital severe enough to force Donald Trump’s second inauguration indoors on Monday.
Such cold air blasts have become known as the polar vortex. It’s a long-established ... from Kansas to Washington, said National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center meteorologist Zack ...
The coldest weather of the season to date will be due to a phenomenon called a polar vortex ... only as high as 23 degrees on Monday in Washington, D.C., with wind chill set to make it feel ...
Most of the country will likely be hit by an arctic blast this weekend into early next week as the polar vortex ushers ... reach the single digits in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and Boston.
It could be one of the coldest inauguration days in history when President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in on Monday. Here's the weather forecast for January 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C.
I struggled for a way to memorialize the dawning in Washington of Hell's Encore. Finally, I gave up and fell back on what I think is the greatest paragraph of political journalism of at least the last half-century. It concluded the September chapter of Hunter Thompson's Fear and Loathing: On The Campaign Trail:
A polar vortex dipping down from Siberia is bringing a cold front with frigid temperatures to millions Americans. See maps of the arctic blast.
Michigan lawmakers had handed out hundreds of tickets to constituents, but those are now commemorative after inauguration moved indoors due to cold