“Florida’s air comes from the North Pole, near the North Pole.”
States around the Great Lakes are covered in snow due to the influence of the lakes.
Winter has arrived in the states surrounding the Great Lakes, and roads from New York to Wisconsin are covered in lake-effect snow.
Millions of you will be waking up this morning asking two questions: Why is it so cold? And when will it get warmer?
Here are your answers:
The weather is fickle and coming soon.
Read below for more information.
Polar vortex?
Weather Trader meteorologist Ryan Maue said on the X show that the blast was thanks to our winter enemy, the polar vortex, while the cold weather is coming all the way from disastrously volatile places like Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, and even the North Pole!
According to meteorologists at MyRadar.com, “Florida’s air comes from the North Pole, near the North Pole. That’s why it’s going to be so cold. Temperatures are 20 to 25 degrees colder than average!”
However, this particular fad is a bit out of season, as the most intense cold snaps are usually reserved for mid-winter. For example, Miami’s all-time low temperature of 27 degrees was recorded on February 3, 1917, according to the National Weather Service.
How long will the cold wave last?
“If this cold is coming too soon, the good news is it won’t last very long,” Weather.com meteorologist Jonathan Erdman said in an online forecast.
He said calm air will return to the central part of the country on Tuesday, Nov. 11, “and that calm air will spread across much of the South and the Midwest for the remainder of this week.”
However, according to Weather.com, it could be somewhat stubborn for the cold air to leave the Northeast as another strengthening cold front pushes in from Canada.
Meteorologist Ben Knoll agreed, pointing out in X that the arctic blast won’t last long: “It doesn’t mean winter is coming early. The air will return to milder conditions.”
Overall, AccuWeather’s long range experts note that temperatures are expected to continue to improve as the month progresses, as “a wave of cold air moves in early December.”
Doyle Rice is a national correspondent for USA TODAY and writes about weather and climate.
