Meteorologist Reynolds Wolf is live in New York City Monday morning reporting on slick roadway conditions and freezing temperatures impacting the Northeast. | The Weather Channel

❄️ Polar Vortex Collapse Has Begun ❄️ Sudden stratospheric warming events are a normal part of winter, but they almost never happen this early. Two weeks ago we said the atmosphere was setting up for an early disruption. That signal has now verified. The collapse of the Polar Vortex has started, and this timing places it among the earliest events recorded in seventy years. The breakdown began on November twenty one and will peak through Thanksgiving. Once the disruption works downward, the impac