00:00If you've been seeing posts about the polar vortex, you might think you need to get ready for extreme cold,
00:04but there's a missing piece.
00:06Here's what's really happening. There is a polar vortex displacement coming up.
00:09It actually could be the earliest on record, and the polar vortex can help cold air move south, but that
00:14cold air has to be there first, and that's the problem.
00:17The air in northern Canada just isn't really that cold right now.
00:20You can see some cooler air reaching the U.S. through next Friday, but we're not looking at a widespread
00:25Arctic blast.
00:25That would be the purples. That dark blue translates to lows in the 40s and highs in the 50s late
00:30next week in Chicago.
00:31It's just one place that'll turn chillier as storm systems develop overhead during the first half of November.
00:36But there's an important distinction. It's homegrown chilly air, not a blast of bitter cold straight from the Arctic.
00:42From Chicago through New York and Boston, the bigger change is really more rain after that long dry stretch.
00:47So now that you know what this means for you, share it with someone who's also worrying about the polar
00:51vortex.
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