Pedestrians brave the cold on the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis during the polar vortex in January. Much of the continental United States is cold, wet and stormy, with the notable outlier of South Florida, where it has been summer for many weeks. A brutally cold Arctic air mass invaded the nation’s midsection this weekend and sent temperatures to levels normally associated with January. Meanwhile a fast-moving storm system has swept west to east across the country. At the same time, prodigious amounts of snow began falling in West Virginia and other parts of the central Appalachians as the storm system rolled northeast across Pennsylvania and toward New England.

Source: Washington Post March 03, 2019 10:52 UTC