Polar Vortex 2025 Georgia. A polar vortex dipping down from siberia is bringing a cold front with frigid temperatures to millions americans. The polar vortex is a circulation of very cold, polar air that normally resides up at the poles.

The polar vortex is an area of low pressure that exists over the arctic at the upper levels of the atmosphere, in the stratosphere, during winter. But during the winter, it is joined by a second atmospheric phenomenon dubbed the polar vortex.