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The icy arctic temperatures that swept downward into the country's midsection beginning February 8 were followed February 15 by more blasts of cold, this time accompanied by winter storms. A polar vortex swept south into the American Midwest in the third week of February, reaching deep into Texas and spreading east and west to cover most of the continent's center to the Rio Grande River and below.Another set of winter storms beginning February. 17 were forecast to affect 100 million people as they moved from the central plains eastward, with Southern states getting 2 more inches of snow. According to the National Weather Service, the winter weather was set to continue through February 20 as it forecast a "major winter storm to impact Southern plains/lower Mississippi valley to the mid-Atlantic/northeast." |