When I grew up we just had cold weather.
In recent years the 'polar vortex' was invented.
Now even that is not good enough. We have the 'bomb cyclone.'
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/weather/2018/01/04/bomb-cyclone-slams-east-coast/109152974/
I'm gettin' about sick of the dreaded "wind chill factor", too. The wind chill factor don't mean squat. It's whatever the ambient temperature would feel like if there was a wind, and it was blowing on bare skin. So, if you are stupid enough to go out in the cold buck nekkid, you might have reason to take notice of the wind chill factor, but I doubt it.
Now, it's reported more than the actual temps: ...."it'll feel like minus 9 million degrees in Vermont...". National maps of nothing but "what it will feel like". If I've seen one I've seen a thousand this past week. And I can't recall any national ACTUAL low temp maps. Idiocy.
They showed several maps that included my AO, complete with "what it will feel like"/wind chill numbers,
and there wasn't even any wind blowing, nor had there been. The Fake News MSM's sensationalist journalism practices took hold in the weather room, years ago. And it continues unabated: they needed a similar made up phenomenon for the summertime, so now we got the "heat index".
Just give me the hard numbers, please. My old hairy ass is perfectly capable of determining what "it feels like", thank you. It's had years of practice.