{"id":153103,"date":"2022-12-18T09:23:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T15:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/get-ready-for-a-polar-plunge-the-first-week-of-winter-brings-snow-and-bitterly-cold-temperatures"},"modified":"2022-12-18T09:23:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T15:23:17","slug":"get-ready-for-a-polar-plunge-the-first-week-of-winter-brings-snow-and-bitterly-cold-temperatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/get-ready-for-a-polar-plunge-the-first-week-of-winter-brings-snow-and-bitterly-cold-temperatures","title":{"rendered":"Get ready for a \u2018polar plunge.\u2019 The first week of winter brings snow and bitterly cold temperatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/get-ready-for-a-polar-plunge-the-first-week-of-winter-brings-snow-and-bitterly-cold-temperatures2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomical winter officially begins this Wednesday and Jack Frost will arrive in full force.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures will take a polar plunge this week, and even Florida won\u2019t be spared, thanks to a strong high-pressure system sliding south from Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery cold Arctic air masses will envelop much of the central and eastern half of the nation during the two week period, including the busy holiday travel season,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/cpc_key_messages\/CPC-Key-Message-latest.png\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">Climate Prediction Center<\/a> said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomical winter officially begins this Wednesday and Jack Frost will arrive in full force. Temperatures will take a polar plunge this week, and even Florida won\u2019t be spared, thanks to a strong high-pressure system sliding south from Canada. \u201cVery cold Arctic air masses will envelop much of the central and eastern half of the nation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}