In case you haven’t noticed at 6:00 AM Tuesday in Lancaster it is zero Fahrenheit outside…
NEW YORK TIMES: Meteorologists called it “weather whiplash” — a drop of roughly 50 degrees in a matter of hours that took temperatures from 55 in Central Park on Monday morning to an expected low of 6 overnight and a high on Tuesday of only 10. The last time temperatures in New York fell that much in such a short time, Warren G. Harding was in the White House.
The reason was a mix of atmospheric ingredients that came together to give New York a precipitous, once-every-few-decades swing.
It began with the polar vortex, an elliptical-shaped pattern of frigid winds blowing west to east and centered on the North Pole… (more)
