Originally Posted by
PaulRivers
Just ran across this:
Coldest Winters in Twin Cities History: 1873-2014: Minnesota DNR
They called it a "Polar Vortex" where the air that's normally sitting over the north pole gets pushed down onto us somehow.
I know what you mean about the dampness and rain though. If it's humid, it feels a lot colder at 32F than it does at 25F, ironically because of the humidity difference.
We remember that one even here. Not snow so much - though we did have the first November snows since the early 1900's and were shut down twice by storms - but that frigid polar air spilling down. And the ice storms when Gulf low systems collided with it. I got a kick out of riding every commute through it all and pretending that I was an intrepid Minnesota ice-man type. But only for awhile. Keep your vortex up North where it belongs please!