The frigid weather, down to 35F˚ below normal, disabled 8 of 11 GW of gas-fired generators in New England because contractual limitations blocked or exceptional space-heating demand preempted their expected supplies.
The polar vortex breaks down, spilling frigid air over the Arctic into North America and westward into Europe.
Marieta N. Beshirova, a nurse, bundled in a felt coat against a frigid mist drifting down from the Caucasus Mountains, piled out of an ambulance at one polling station with other hospital employees.
The snow and freezing temperatures across southern China were triggered by a very active cold front sweeping across east Asia, pushing frigid air further down into south China than normal.
I think of an article I wrote earlier this year about the descendants of victims on the Titanic who cherish a gold watch engraved with the name of Mary Mangan, its hands frozen forever at 2 20 a.m. when the ship went down in frigid waters in 1912.
They think this could help to explain the extreme conditions of the 2009-2010 whener when the normal pattern of Arctic winds broke down causing a weakened polar vortex to allow a frigid body of air to move south.
But this is the Sula Ridge, 1,000 feet down in frigid darkness on the continental shelf 100 miles off Norway's coast.
The frigid citadel came crashing down in 1960, when Penguin Books was prosecuted at the Old Bailey for publishing the unexpurgated Lady Chatterley's Lover; Lawrence became a 1960s icon, even though he had died in 1930.
With the exceptions of Florida, Arizona, California and Hawaii, temperatures are down right frigid.
Connie Kaiserman CW'67, Santa Fe, N.M., writes that she knitted her first "Twitten" ("a two-handed mitten couples can wear while holding hands to stay snug and warm") for then-boyfriend and current husband, Steve Robinson C'66, so they could hold hands during tense fourth downs during frigid Penn football games in the mid-60s.
