A polar vortex dipping down from Siberia is bringing a cold front with frigid temperatures to millions Americans. See maps of the arctic blast.

It's like "bomb cyclone" or "firenado." It seems like the sort of phenomenon that would be responsible for the record-breaking blast of cold, snow and wintry conditions that reached all the way to the Gulf Coast this week.

I’ve been convinced that we are about to experience a very serious and dangerous weather episode,” Houston Mayor John Whitmire said Sunday.

Bitter Arctic air plunged more than half the United States into a deep freeze Tuesday, including New Orleans, where the heaviest snow in decades brought dangerous conditions to the famously festive Gulf Coast city.

A 2-year-old dog was found inside a New Jersey dumpster on the morning of Jan. 21 after being abandoned over 11 hours earlier amid freezing temperatures. Surveillance footage helped police identify the man,

The coldest temperatures of the year hit Houston overnight, with some people in Southeast Texas waking up to temps between 14 and 18 degrees, the coldest since last January's arctic outbreak. According to Space City Weather meteorologist Eric Berger,

After millennia as a carbon deep-freezer for the planet, regional hotspots and increasingly frequent wildfires in the northern latitudes have nearly canceled out that critical storage capacity in the permafrost region,

The arctic blast is retreating out of CNY, and the lake snow event that dropped several feet north of Syracuse has ended, but what’s next? Find out below… Bitter air

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A blast of Arctic air is bringing cold weather to New England over the next several days. Wind chill values in the mornings are going to be 0 to 15 below, with the coldest areas across the hillier terrain of Worcester County and the Berkshires.

The First Alert Weather team forecasts another cold night with lows in the 20s inland to 30-35 at the coast. Some re-freezing or black ice will be possible, especially north & northwest of Jacksonville where more frozen precipitation occurred. Cold nights in the 20s will continue the rest of the week into the weekend.

Temperatures on Wednesday are forecast to struggle to make it above 20 degrees. However, on Thursday, New York City residents can expect some relief as temperatures are expected to jump up to a high of 30 degrees. Friday is slated for a high of 32 degrees and Saturday is expected to reach a peak temperature around 33-34 degrees, as noted by Dombek.