Time and Temperature: 09:12AM, -7Fahrenheit

That is real temperature, not anything such as "...feels like negative 7 degrees.". Now, again, this is only little old Columbia, Missouri. Yet, I find it all pretty big news, actually. I suppose anything associated with the name or description 'Polar Vortex' is bound to be newsworthy. For my little internal gardener sensors, however, these are very interesting developments. I haven't checked the temps in the past four hours, so I may have missed a cooler low that had been registered, but I have to reference NOAA's website to review those logged temps for the past four hours. I will do so after this publishing. .....developing.