Thanks for your comment! Yes we agree that the phrase "polar vortex" gets misused all the time. We get it, it's just more fun to say "the polar vortex is coming" than to say "it will be cold this weekend", but the issue comes when a term that has a specific meaning is used in multiple different ways- it becomes much harder to communicate what is really happening. We hope this blog can help to clarify what the term "polar vortex" really means, and how it's related to (but not the same as) cold air outbreaks and polar fronts.