Polar vortex sweeping across Alberta to trigger plummeting temperatures
Prepare yourself, Alberta — winter weather is returning.
After a relatively balmy start to 2023 and more recently, more than a week of above-zero temperatures, Old Man Winter is about to plunge the province back into a deep freeze.A polar vortex is expanding from the Arctic and will bring a much colder air mass south, starting overnight Thursday into Friday and continuing into the weekend.
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“We have been above 0 C, for the past eight days in a row, but highs are expected to be over 20 C colder by the weekend as we drop well into the minus s...