A "shocking" Arctic blast – with temperatures more akin to mid-January than early November – is poised to overspread the eastern half of the U.S. starting around Nov. 8, sending tens of millions into an early deep-freeze, forecasters said.
We're "skipping fall and going right to winter," said Weather Trader meteorologist Ryan Maue on X, who called the cold "shocking" and "stunning."
Another meteorologist, Ben Noll of the Washington Post, said on X that "the first Arctic outbreak of the season will send temperatures tumbling from the Dakotas to Florida early next week."
The blast is courtesy of our old wintertime foe the polar vortex, Maue said, while the source of the cold is all the way from Greenland and the Canadian Arctic.
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