Stewart: Dread over winter forecasts understandable

With winter forecasts predicting a return of the notorious frigid air mass famously known last year as the polar vortex, the public's reaction of dread is understandable, says Alan Stewart.

Stewart is a weather and climate psychologist at the University of Georgia College of Education who researches the connection between the seasons and our psyches. The article appears in the Sept. 26 edition of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

Stewart is an associate professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Development Services.