Everybody talks about it but no one does anything about it

How did we ever explain frigid weather before someone coined the term "polar vortex"?

We are going into the deep freeze here on the Front Range starting tomorrow night, with possible below-zero lows for a couple nights. This is caused by the jet stream dipping much further south than it normally does and reminds us of what life in Canada is most of the winter.

Since it's Colorado, we should not be surprised that the temperatures will be warmer in the mountains than around Denver or Fort Collins, and they may be wearing short sleeves in Grand Junction while we are shivering around here.

And there might be a snow storm, or there might not.

No matter how nasty or pleasant the weather, at least we can depend on that topic as one thing that we can all talk about, perhaps without politics. No matter your political POV, cold is cold and wind is wind.

But you might be thinking that this extreme weather is caused by climate change and THAT will get us going again about politics... 

So one more question: How did the weather become political?