{"id":6603,"date":"2019-02-01T05:38:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T21:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=6603"},"modified":"2019-02-04T14:32:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T06:32:04","slug":"polar-vortex-hits-midwest-us-bringing-below-xero-freezing-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=6603","title":{"rendered":"Polar vortex hits Midwest US, bringing below xero freezing weather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FW821863_5F9C7C00833A50D0-scr.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6604\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FW821863_5F9C7C00833A50D0-scr.jpg 640w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FW821863_5F9C7C00833A50D0-scr-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FW821863_5F9C7C00833A50D0-scr-555x370.jpg 555w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FW821863_5F9C7C00833A50D0-scr-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>US, Chicago: A general view of the city skyline of Chicago amid frigid temperatures caused by the polar vortex, a stream of air that spins around over the North Pole. Photo Courtesy of Karen I. Hirsch\/Zuma Wire\/dpa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Chicago, Feb 1 (NNN-Agencies) &#8212; The Midwestern states of US have been hit by a polar vortex, bringing about the harshest cold in the area in years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a Accuweather report, after the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/en\/weather-news\/what-is-a-polar-vortex\/21793077\" target=\"_blank\">polar vortex<\/a>\u00a0plunged southward, temperatures plummeted under 20 below zero F from North Dakota to northern Illinois during the morning hours of both Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The low of 38 below zero recorded at Mt. Carroll, Illinois, is being reviewed by a state climate extremes committee to determine if the Illinois state record low was broken on Thursday morning, it said. The current record is 36 below zero that was set near Congerville on Jan. 5, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/e.infogram.com\/37acef48-f46d-4b6c-8bca-0da3683ef173?src=embed#async_embed\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, Feb 1 (NNN-Agencies) &#8212; The Midwestern states of US have been hit by a polar vortex, bringing about the harshest cold in the area in years. According to a Accuweather report, after the\u00a0polar vortex\u00a0plunged southward, temperatures plummeted under 20 below zero F from North Dakota to northern Illinois during the morning hours of both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":6604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}