Are you ready for the coming arctic storm? Here’s the latest Colorado weather forecast and everything else you need to know ahead of extreme cold.

Still, several Colorado school districts will start late on Tuesday as the state waits out the last of subzero temperatures. Denver, Jefferson County, Aurora, Littleton, St. Vrain Valley and Weld, among others, are all on a two-hour delay.

Here are the lowest temperatures across Colorado on Tuesday morning, according to the National Weather Service.

More than 400 flights were delayed or canceled at Denver International Airport on Monday as a polar vortex continued to freeze Colorado. There were 394 delayed and 27 canceled flights as of 12:40 p.m.

Arctic air surging south could glaze Colorado roads with ice in time for the evening commute Friday as Denver braces for a weekend of bitter, sub-zero cold. National Weather Service meteorologist David Barjenbruch said temperatures are expected to plunge twice Friday — first in the late morning and again in the late afternoon,

Snow is expected to taper off around Denver by the early afternoon, while temperatures will remain well-below freezing through Monday night.

Colorado will see its coldest temperatures of the winter as a mass of cold air descends on the state from the Artic. But despite the bitter cold, this weather event is not a polar vortex.

The Arctic air mass will be in Colorado Friday afternoon, but the effects of the polar vortex won't be fully felt until after the sun goes down. Snow will come into the state's high country in two ...

The most unusually cold air in the Northern Hemisphere will be over the United States early next week, bringing dangerously frigid conditions.

According to the NWS, the Arctic polar vortex is a powerful band of west-to-east winds that develops in the stratosphere, about 10 to 30 miles above the North Pole, during the winter season. It is always present near the poles, though it weakens during summer and intensifies in winter.

A strong polar vortex in the stratosphere has brought subzero temperatures to the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and deep into the South.

It's a term you hear every couple of winters, when we get stuck in the coldest of cold patterns – polar vortex. But what exactly is it and how does it impact our weather? The polar vortex is ...