What a difference a week makes, this week warm and last week polar vortex weather; Is It A Cold or The Flu?
What a difference a week makes, this week’s warm and last week’s polar vortex weather.

More Than A Cold
I don’t know about you but every winter I seem to learn about a new weather pattern, this year introduced the polar vortex.  Perhaps this is not new terminology, and maybe since I have to travel for my job, I am always concerned about the weather.  This weather event, as we all know now, brings extreme winter cold blast patterns that seem to have surpassed for now.  Currently, the deep freeze is over, and more tolerable temps returned; the long and short of it is that it’s January weather, sometimes cold and sometimes even colder!

The Weather Channel aerial view of Chicago, Illinois during polar vortex on 1/
Last week:  The Weather Channel aerial view of Chicago, Illinois, during polar vortex on 1/9/2014
A view of the Niagara Falls frozen over due to the extreme cold weather, Ontario, Canada, 1/9/2014. photo credit: Seyit Aydogan/Anadolu Agency/GettyImages)
A view of Niagara Falls frozen over due to the extreme cold weather, Ontario, Canada, 1/9/2014. Photo credit: Seyit Aydogan/Anadolu Agency/GettyImages)

Cold weather requires vigilance in not getting the cold or flu.  Flu season has hit the halfway point; according to the Centers for Disease Control, cases are spiking.  As temperatures drop throughout the country, more people develop flu symptoms.

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