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Jan 8, 2014 7:39 AM CST

Even Hell Has Frozen Over

Every US state saw freezing temperatures yesterday

(Newser) - Here's how cold it is: Hell has frozen over. OK, so we're talking about Hell, Mich., a small town 60 miles west of Detroit where temperatures have dropped as low as -4 degrees (or -27 when wind chill is considered), Time reports. In fact, at some point yesterday,...

Yeah, This Is
Global Warming
in Action

OPINION

Jan 7, 2014 11:48 AM CST

Yeah, This Is Global Warming in Action

Even freezing temps can be explained by global warming: LiveScience

(Newser) - Given the deep freeze engulfing much of the country, you may have heard more than one person scoffing about global warming. Jokes aside, climate change is still very real, LiveScience insists. In fact, scientists believe much of the cold weather can actually be explained by global warming. For one thing,...

Deep Freeze Engulfs
East, South

Jan 7, 2014 7:54 AM CST

Deep Freeze Engulfs East, South

State of emergency declared in NY

(Newser) - The "polar vortex" deep freeze is spreading to the East Coast and bringing record low temperatures to the Deep South after causing misery in the Midwest, where it got so cold that a Chicago zoo had to move its polar bear and penguins inside, CNN reports. Some 15 deaths...

'Life-Threatening'
Cold Grips US

Jan 6, 2014 7:42 AM CST

'Life-Threatening' Cold Grips US

Atlanta now colder than Anchorage

(Newser) - A weather phenomenon called a "polar vortex" has tens of millions of Americans shivering in the lowest temperatures in nearly 40 years, and forecasters believe it's going to get colder until nearly half the country is in below-zero conditions by Wednesday.

"The coldest temperatures in almost two

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Good News, America:
We're in a 'Polar Vortex'

updated

Jan 5, 2014 7:13 PM CST

Good News, America: We're in a 'Polar Vortex'

It is really cold in more than half the country

(Newser) - Baby, it's so cold outside that the AP is throwing around the term "polar vortex," which is apparently "a counterclockwise-rotating pool of cold, dense air"—and it's got more than half the US wrapped in its icy clutches. It's not going anywhere anytime...