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Likely maybe of the entire winter this week. the worst of it this morning northern plains. first ones to get into the grip of this cold outbreak. windchill and international falls is negative 44. those are windchill warnings numbers. thats dangerous stuff. sitting in your car is one thing but getting the kids to school is difficult. chicago is negative 21 this hour. we have the arctic air today. thats pretty much other over the northern portions of the plain through the great lakes and northern ...

Polar vortex. >> theres like 17 million references if you go to google on this. >> people in the room are not happy about this. >> the polar vortex started in january. then we had the big cold outbreak and somehow it just caught on. and a lot of meteorologists, even myself, i dont remember studying it in college and i had to go back to study this. we were telling everybody the wrong thing. nobody has ever experienced this. lets kind of explain this. >> tell us what were doing wrong here. give us...

You could pretty much put it on a recording. it is going to be this way for the next few weeks. fargo, minus 26. thats even cold in the middle of winter. i know you are probably used to it by now. still not fun. at least we are getting a little more. the sun angle is getting higher. sooner or later, the sun has to win out. not in this next two-week period. chicago is at 5 for the windchill. the funny thing about this cold outbreak, it isnt going to go as far south as the big one in january. it i...

Wage and growing retirement crisis but first lets check in with bill karins on the forecast. bill. >> the weekend looks okay. weve dealt with two major winter storms and our cold outbreak. it continues this morning. its still bitterly cold from dallas northward. temperatures apolo average in the northern plains. one of the worst winters temperature wise youve seen in many years. a cold day. couple areas of light snow. dallas could see snow showers, memphis area could see snow showers today. let ...

Apartment window as the fire in the background made it nice and made you actually feel exactly how cold that was. that was then. now were ready for round two. maria is outside our world headquarters. how bad is this one going to be? >> good morning. well, i have a little bit of good news. this one isnt going to be as bad as our earlier cold outbreak this month. however, it is still going to be dangerously cold, and we are still going to be looking at windchill temperatures below zero across the ...

Coldest ever in central park. 5 degrees. the old record 6 and new record low in philadelphia, raleigh, atlanta, pittsburgh, tied it in chicago and also kansas city. you get the general idea here. we are noticing this massive cold outbreak. its not just ice. it encompasses everywhere east of the rockies and windchill the lowest on the map ryanlander, wisconsin, minus 51! its very cold all the way down to the gulf. the good news the january thaw diagram will come january 9th through the 13th and u...

>> in terms of flight tracker, at least earlier today there were 750 flights at ohare and additional flights at midway also canceled. and also this is a serious business because in the midwest states at least 11 deaths have been reported from the extreme cold. lets talk about that polar vortex now and what it means thanks to ron allen and his crew out there in the cold. lets go to new york and to rafael miranda. tell me, what the situation is with the polar vortex. lets go over it again. even th...

Arctic outbreak in two decades and 100 million of us americans are going to see temperatures fall to zero degrees. so this is what it feels like tonight. it feels like 14 below in portland, like 22 below in concord, 6 below in hartford. thats the wind chill tonight. but whats happening now, we are going to see incredibly cold conditions. temperatures are low but its the winds with this noreaster behind it thats creating a very cold environment. but this cold outbreak, a different one sunday thro...

>> thanks so much, weather channels mike seidel. we just learned minnesota is cancelling schools due to the temperatures. >> thats something for minnesota. theyre hardy folk. >> exactly. what else in the midwest and the plains? >> whats next? sunday in the plains and somebody we havent done no 20 years within incredible arctic outbreak in minnesota. this is going to get your attention. noreaster rating up into the north atlantic, say good-bye, and a calm period. not a fun day of shoveling, but t...

Just for fun i put out a bowl of water about an hour ago and its hard as a rock. thats how cold it is. and windy. >> officially about 14 inches at logan airport. little spot north of there picked up 21 inches of snow. richard lui in downtown boston. thanks. joy, it will get worst before it gets better. on sunday, monday and tuesday, forecasting a historic cold outbreak across the middle of the country. >> i dont like how that sounds. >> minneapolis is expecting wind chills minus 45, minus 60. >>...