Snow Day

So I didn't get the stereotypical screenshot of my weather app this morning, but it was -17 degrees when I woke up and that was without the wind-chill. Because this is only our second winter with bone chilling temperatures, northwestern Pennsylvania has turned into South Carolina with snow flurries, and now everything is shut down. I am on my second snow day in a row and let me tell you, snow days lose their magic once you are an adult. I couldn't even sleep in this morning because I was so stressed about trying to figure out how I am going to squeeze in my fact and opinion lesson.

You know, we always made fun of Virginia for freaking out over an inch of snow, and yet here we are canceling everything in our path because the temperatures are in the single digits.

I don't really keep up on the news, so is this another polar vortex? If so, why is this a new occurrence? I feel like I have never heard of a polar vortex until last winter. Perhaps Mother Nature thinks it's trendy.

I guess I'm just wondering if this is Day After Tomorrow stuff we are experiencing, or if New York City is safe from any flooding for the time being.

I went to the IMAX theater with parents yesterday and they had a commercial for a documentary about the Arctic. Honestly I wouldn't have been able to tell the difference between if they were scanning the horizon of the Arctic Ocean or just Lake Erie. Actually the humpback whale gave that away, but I could have swore I saw a glimpse of the Biennial Tower as they were doing a panoramic view (just joking).

Let's play a game. Which one is the Arctic and which one is Erie?

 

Now don't let the polar bear fool you.