keeping cold

“To me, it’s about keeping cold food cold and hot food hot,” Slavin said.

A registered nurse and a mother of two from Colorado, she estimates that her family has accumulated “upward of 25 to 30” reusable flasks at home for keeping cold drinks: flasks large and small, of various designs and colors, with a straw and without.

Department of Agriculture says ice baths are "great option for keeping cold items cold at a party."

The past three months, a weather pattern known as the Arctic Oscillation caused a powerful polar vortex in the upper atmosphere, keeping cold air bottled up over the North Pole.

A primary suspect in this linkage is the so-called polar jet stream, a fast river of wind that circumnavigates the Arctic, typically keeping cold temperatures fenced in and warm ones out when it is strong.