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The bad news is that it’s due to the Arctic polar vortex, which could also bring extremely cold temperatures this holiday season.

Using information from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and Global Forecast System (GFS), weather researcher Andrej Flis from Severe Weather Europe recently highlighted an atmospheric warming event in late November that could result in frigid polar air moving south in mid-December and lingering for up to two weeks.

For those unfamiliar, the ever-spinning vortex of cold atm

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