If you were planning on using your refund dollars for a big TV, braces, vacation, or anything else - you are probably going to have to adjust your plans.
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