Climate change and the polar vortex: Winter storms are normal, but this string of severe Christmas weather isn’t typical
The calendar flipped to winter this week and promptly ushered in what the National Weather Service is calling a “once-in-a-generation type event” that will hobble holiday travel by air and road on some of the busiest days of the year.
“This is not like a snow day when you were a kid,” President Joe Biden warned Thursday in the Oval Office after a briefing from federal officials. “This is serious stuff.” The cold will persist for Christmas weekend, marking this year as the coldest Christmas in roughly 40 years for portions of the Plains and Midwest.
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