Artic cold blasts region

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. The frigid temperature that our area is experiencing is part of an arctic blast called a polar vortex that reportedly has broken records across the country. Meteorologists say the cold blast of air will likely be the coldest to hit the lower 48 states this winter, possibly reaching as far south as the tip of the Florida peninsula, with temperatures dropping to as low as 50 degrees below normal in parts of the country. The National Weather Service predicted during the weekend the possibility of temperatures in the low 20s along the northern Gulf Coast from East Texas to North Florida, with even a few single digit-lows in parts of the Deep South. Never