Cold & Getting Colder

Yesterday's snowfall makes the 4th "decent" snowfall event for the month of January. While we started the month off quite, just like December, we've picked back up. So far, we've seen 24.5" of snow for January.






It's cold outside, and it's only going to get worse. Currently we're in the single digits for current temperatures.







Wind chills are in the negative teens to negative 20s.








And we are upwards of 20 plus degrees colder than this time yesterday. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it's only going to get colder tonight.






With the bitterly cold air already, the entire viewing area is under a Wind Chill Advisory until 6pm for wind chills anywhere from -20° to -30°.






Once we get to 6pm, the Wind Chill Advisory will get bumped up to a Wind Chill Warning until noon Thursday. Wind chills are expected to get as low as -40° to -55° tonight, throughout your Wednesday and into the start of Thursday.

This is all thanks to the polar vortex. Yes, that's right the polar vortex is back in the news. Every once in a while it will weaken, and dip to the south enough that cold air will flow into our neck of the woods. It's going to push a arctic high south providing for the coldest air mass in years to invade the Stateline. We could see record low temperatures, record low high temperatures and the all-time record cold temperature broken.