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We're at about the half-way point of this polar vortex's visit to the Rockford area (and most of the country, too), and the complaining you've probably been hearing (or doing) is getting louder and angrier by the day.

In a month full of strange and record-breaking weather events, you can add "smoking Chicago River" to the list of oddities we're experiencing.

An escaped St. Bernard was found alive, although decidedly worse for wear, after 17 days lost outside in freezing-cold Minnesota weather.

After getting a 1-3 inch sample snowfall over the weekend, it looks like we'll be dealing with more snowfall this afternoon--combined with some seriously cold temperatures.

Let's use some technology to take some of frozen edge off of a Midwestern January.

A place so cold that brass monkeys are on the endangered species list.

As I sit at my desk typing this, the current temperature reading in Rockford is -7, with a "feels like" or windchill of -23. It's cold. Painfully so. However, as much as we would like to, we can't claim the title of "Earth's Coldest Place...