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🚨Polar vortex active for Midwest And Northeast The polar vortex is active again, and when that happens, winter in the United States can flip from “cold but normal” to “dangerous very fast.” The polar vortex is a huge pool of extremely cold air that usually spins over the Arctic like a frozen whirlpool high in the atmosphere. When it is strong and stable, that air stays locked up near the pole. When it weakens, stretches or shifts off center, chunks of that cold can spill south. That is what we

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