Polar vortex forecast says brace for ‘coldest air of the whole winter’
Feb. 5, 2026, 2:45 p.m. ET This year’s relentless winter in the East is about to unleash its most savage cold outbreak yet. “A brutally cold weekend awaits more than 100 million people in the northeastern quarter of the nation as Arctic air lunges southward straight from eastern Canada,” AccuWeather senior meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said …