Axios reports:
A powerful Arctic outbreak tied in part to the polar vortex is set to send temperatures by next week tumbling down to as cold as 25 to 35 degrees Fahrenheit below average for mid-January, forecasts show. The hazardous cold could endanger public health, stress electricity grids, damage crops and make for a frigid Inauguration Day.
Mother Nature’s refrigerator door looks to open, with cold air spilling southward out of northern Canada beginning Friday night and lasting for at least a week. Through Sunday, about 81 million people are predicted to see temperatures plunge to below-zero Fahrenheit, and the number affected will increase from there.
Read the full article. In 1985, Reagan’s inauguration parade was canceled and the ceremony was moved inside when wind chills were as low as -20 degrees.
🥶Here are the latest Key Messages for the Arctic blast that will deliver the coldest air-mass of the season to-date for much of the Lower 48. There is also the potential for snow squalls in the northern Rockies & Plains late week. pic.twitter.com/5EQZ0AaWz8
— NWS Weather Prediction Center (@NWSWPC) January 16, 2025
Temperatures to plummet from polar vortex-related Arctic blasthttps://t.co/T9FbhtDaHT pic.twitter.com/VRGP23PlSV
— Annie van Leur (@AnnevanLeur) January 16, 2025