It's not a hurricane of cold air.

It's not even something that can come and get you.

The only way to be in the polar vortex is to be in an airplane.

It exists in the upper levels of the atmosphere and is always there.

It's an area of low pressure around the Arctic Circle that's locked in place and houses some very cold air.

Sometimes different weather patterns can influence the polar vortex and cause it to become distorted.

As this happens, a large dip in the jet stream allows very cold air to spill into the U.

S.

That's the cold air.

You feel the air that lives beneath the polar vortex air that many times is so cold it could feel like something out of this world.