The US is preparing for its 10th cold snap caused by the polar vortex this season as meteorologists warn it could be the worst yet with strong winds and snowfall making things worse

Meteorologists warn that the coldest burst of Arctic air this season is coming to put an icy and prolonged exclamation point on America’s winter of repeated polar vortex invasions starting this weekend.

On the heels of successive winter storms that brought heavy snow and ice to a wide swath of the United States, another arctic blast tied to the polar vortex will send temperatures plummeting across the country early next week,