As with "gravitas", here's a new word you will hear every channel use to the point of nausea

Polar Vortex! And it even has a name! And it will kill us all in ten years!

"Until it got really cold this week I had never heard of a polar vortex. Thanks to The Weather Channel I’ve learned it means we swapped weather with Fairbanks.

"Same goes for a Derecho, which I learned last summer means rain storm.

I’ve also learned The Weather Channel has acquired naming rights to the weather. This week’s polar vortex is named Ion."  Chip Bok.

 

The Comical Conservative
 

 The Polar Vortex: Best Late-Night Jokes  "Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno were among those who poked fun at the frigid temperatures."
 ... "That was followed by a series of "How cold is it?" jokes, with Leno offering up zingers like "It is so cold, most of the country has numbers lower than President Obama" ...
 

Stephen Colbert: "As a newsman, I want to salute whoever came up with the term 'polar vortex,' " Colbert said. "It is terrifying but still sounds all science-y. A lesser meteorologist could have overreached with 'arctic coldnado' or 'alaskan dick punch,' but 'polar vortex' is restrained but menacing."

Silly you! Of course global warming is behind frigid temps  "Can we please stop equating "weather" with "climate?" It will probably be another two decades before we're this cold again. And next year, when it's possible we will experience warmer winter weather than normal, you can bet the global warming advocates will be out in force claiming it as proof that global warming is "real.' "

Survivors of the Blizzard of ’78 Mock the ‘Arctic Vortex’  "My personal reaction to the wall-to-wall news coverage of this “dangerous weather event” has been something along the lines of “seriously?”
Why all this derision — even hostility — simply because the schools and some businesses wanted the public to stay home for a couple of days until this cold weather blew over?
"Quite simply, Ohioans of a certain age remember January 26, 1978, the day the Great Blizzard of ’78, also known as the White Hurricane, also known as the Cleveland Superbomb, descended upon Ohio." 

 

Not showing off; I had to look up "vortex" and figured you might want to as well.

Vortex; "In fluid dynamics, a vortex is a region within a fluid where the flow is mostly a spinning motion about an imaginary axis, straight or curved. That motion pattern is called a vortical flow." ....

Class dismissed.