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The polar vortex has been “considerably stronger” than usual this year, according to Laura Ciasto, a meteorologist with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, which should keep record-breaking ...
FILE -- People walk in freezing cold temperatures on February 4, 2023 in New York City. (Getty Images) The polar vortex returns to the lower 48 this week, and frostbite -inducing temperatures for ...
The coldest burst of Arctic air this season is coming to put an icy exclamation point on America's winter of repeated polar vortex invasions, meteorologists warn. Different weather forces in the ...
Polar vortex and weather impacts due to stratospheric warming. Polar vortices are weakest during summer and strongest during winter. Extratropical cyclones that migrate into higher latitudes when the polar vortex is weak can disrupt the single vortex creating smaller vortices (cold-core lows) within the polar air mass. [18]
Obviously this isn’t the first polar vortex episode of the winter, but it looks to be the most severe.” A stretched polar vortex like this one happens lower in the atmosphere and is different than when the polar vortex has sudden warming, weakens and all the cold air escapes south and out of the poles, Cohen said.
Climate change in Antarctica, 2023–2024 El Niño event The 2024 Antarctica heat wave refers to a prolonged and significant mid- winter increase in Antarctic temperatures compared to prior winters, causing several regions of Antarctica to reach temperatures 10 °C (18.0 °F) above normal in July 2024, up to a 28 °C (50.4 °F) increase above ...
Polar vortex headed for US will bring ‘exceptionally cold’ temps in the new year: ‘Weather models are screaming’ Alex Oliveira December 30, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Late in 2020 and early in 2021, AccuWeather meteorologists warned that a weakening of the polar vortex was coming and a major southward discharge of cold air would follow during the second half of ...