Vortex

 

As the lady in the picture (and her goat) would testify, the weather ain’t fit for man nor beast.

A “Polar Vortex” has brought sub-freezing temperatures to all of the 48 contiguous states this morning.  Only small portions of California, Arizona and Florida are above freezing with sub-zero temps from the Dakotas to the Great Lakes. The weather service is predicting wind chill in the negative 30s as far southeast as the Piedmont of Virginia.

Here at the Boggy Thicket, we woke this morning to 27° and a wind chill of 14° Fahrenheit.  Our record low for the day was 25° back in 1970, but today’s wind chill number may be one for the books.

The weathercasters use wind chill factor a lot, and I suppose it is important since it tells you what the weather “feels” like.  You can figure it out for yourself using NOAA’s  WIND CHILL CALCULATOR.