Quote Originally Posted by bailey View Post
It's not a made up term though... it's what that particular swirling low pressure system is called. Its always there, the term gained popularity last year because it moved so far south and stuck around for so long causing extreme cold that we don't normally see here. It is a "event", an outlier...what you described is "winter". It's not normally colder in Michigan in winter than in the Arctic. Should we stop calling Hurricanes anything but a thunderstorm?
That's funny. I always thought it was a low pressure system.

I'm sick of TV "weather" personalities sending everyone down to the basement every time there is a tornado sighted by a "spotter" in the sticks 75 miles away. And all the supermarket panic every time there is another "vortex". People have become soft.