This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Ring in 2025 with a chill at Austin's Barton Springs Polar Bear Plunge on New Year's Day ...

Participants in the Maryland State Police Polar Bear Plunge charged into the icy Chesapeake Bay as they raised money for Special Olympics Maryland. With temperatures in the 30s and an even colder wind ...

Most of the US will enjoy milder temperatures on Thursday, but the warmup will be brief as a polar vortex will send ... drop below freezing. The deep chill will be felt as far as the Deep ...

The polar vortex is a real thing, but it may not be to blame for the extreme chill that rocked normally ... as to why the Gulf Coast took a polar bear plunge into such icy weather.