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HUDSON RIVER, NY - Bone-chilling wintertime temperatures are causing interest for vessels successful the water, and the U.S. Coast Guard has jumped successful to assistance with icebreaking operations.
Coast Guard officials are moving to enactment harmless navigation for boats owed to the aggravated winter upwind we're seeing successful the eastbound U.S. A almighty polar vortex persists implicit the adjacent fewer weeks.
Experts astatine the FOX Forecast Center expect a large disruption to the polar vortex for the eastbound U.S. successful February.
"This disruption volition instrumentality the signifier of a Sudden Stratospheric Warming Event (SSWE), which occurs erstwhile temperatures precocious successful the ambiance emergence rapidly, weakening oregon adjacent breaking isolated the winds that usually confine acold aerial adjacent the North Pole," a connection from the FOX Forecast Center said.
WHAT IS AN ICE JAM AND ARE THEY DANGEROUS?
When this happens, the polar vortex tin divided oregon shift, allowing frigid arctic aerial to spill southward into the eastbound United States.
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A idiosyncratic crosses the thoroughfare successful Copley Square during a snowstorm successful Boston, Massachusetts, connected January 25, 2026. (Joseph Prezioso / AFP via Getty Images)
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A pistillate walks during a snowstorm connected January 25, 2026, successful New York City. (Andres Kudacki/Getty Images)
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FILE - A pedestrian walks on Lexington's Tates Creek Road Jan. 24, 2026, arsenic wintertime tempest starts to bring dense snowfall and sleet crossed Lexington and Central Kentucky. ((Brian Simms/Lexington Herald-Leader/Tribune News Service via Getty Images))
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FILE - The ice-covered Ohio River successful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, connected Monday, Jan. 26, 2026. (Photographer: Justin Merriman/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 29: People ticker arsenic crystal floats screen portion of the Hudson River on the Manhattan shoreline arsenic New York City experiences frigid temperatures pursuing a wintertime tempest implicit the play connected January 29, 2026, successful New York City. New York received up to a ft of snowfall successful a wintertime tempest that swept done ample parts of the country, resulting successful galore deaths, powerfulness outages, and accidents. (Spencer Platt)
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Snow falling successful Lebanon, Virginia connected Friday, Jan. 30. (Billy Bowling/X)
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a polar vortex is simply a low-pressure country parked implicit polar regions. During the winter, the polar vortex astatine the North Pole expands, sending cold aerial southward.
HOW HIGH PRESSURE AND LOW PRESSURE DRIVE THE WEATHER
Major locations specified arsenic New York City person experienced an arctic blast of winter temperatures, causing important issues successful the Hudson River, which has been freezing over. Large chunks of crystal tin beryllium seen floating successful the river.
SEE IT: COAST GUARD CUTTER FREES NYPD VESSEL FROM ICEBOUND HUDSON RIVER
This has caused important issues for vessels astatine sea, arsenic the U.S. Coast Guard was tasked with utilizing 2 140-foot icebreakers adjacent Hyde Park, New York, to enactment harmless navigation for different boats during winter weather.
U.S. Coast Guard cutters are busy trying to support New York's iced-over waterways moving.
This comes arsenic parts of the Northeast are bracing to acquisition much below-average temperatures starting this play and adjacent week.
DRIVING WITH SNOW ON TOP OF YOUR CAR IS ILLEGAL IN SEVERAL STATES ACROSS THE US
This polar vortex volition deed large cities successful the Northeast with dangerously debased upwind chills, including Boston, New York City, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
A pistillate walks done a snow-covered parkland successful beforehand of the skyline of little Manhattan and One World Trade Center successful New York City connected February 17, 2024, successful Hoboken, New Jersey.
(Gary Hershorn / Getty Images)
NEXT ROUNDS OF SNOW TARGET THE WINTER-WEARY EAST, LATE-WEEK STORM COULD CAUSE TRAVEL TROUBLE
If this forecast holds, the operation of acold precocious January aerial and this signifier could nutrient 1 of the coldest winters successful years for overmuch of the eastbound region.
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