One college professor from here in southeast Minnesota is helping conduct research for NASA-- and was just awarded a million-dollar grant to help do it.
NASA explains the polar vortex we have recently lived through. The purple stuff is the coldest, in case you didn't catch that drift. Eric Fetzer provides some information in a visual explanation from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. What he does not mention in this 'movie,' as he describes it, is that brutal cold-snap seemed pretty harsh, but January 2014 ended on an almost exact average temperat