[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[chris37]

Polar Vortex!?

run, RUN, EVERYBODY RUN!!! MANBEARPIG IS COMING AND THE ONLY WAY TO STOP HIM IS TO ELECT MORE DEMOCRATS!!!!

[Steely Tom]

Global warming is making the Polar Vortex bigger and colder, right?

[Huskrrrr]

I’m more concerned with the BS Vortex in DC right now.

[hadaclueonce]

The article is about how america is stupid trying to replace coal with natural gas.

I agree.

Wind/solar are not the unicorn milk the progressives would like you to believe.

Do you like electricity? Tell your representative to shut down the EPA and leave it the states to regulate.

[nascarnation]

I'm fairly certain was a term only meteorologists had heard before this winter

FWIW Brian Wilkes a local tv weather guy here in Indy has used the term on air for at least 20 years. During the 1994 cold snap for sure.

[Chode]

i remember when it was called the Canadian Clipper, and the Siberian Express before that and simply COLD AIR MASS before that... polar vortex my achin azz, feh

[HereInTheHeartland]

Polar vortex. Old Indian word for winter.

[KSCITYBOY]

Polar Vortex like global warming is just more made up b/s.

[Paine in the Neck]

MISO operates transmission lines. ERCOT depends heavily on wind but the "irregularity of wind, however, presents operational challenges for the ERCOT grid." PJM is a power company, apparently with too big a dependence on trendy, subsidy-sucking renewables. Thus the need for peak demand gas.

[JoeProBono]

[Wuli]

let me see: energy grid companies + risk & cost of possible unusual circumstantes = ???

= normal planning requirements of energy grid companies

yes - the cold did go further south and more often did so, than usual, but its not like it NEVER has, and its not like no one knew that “weather is NOT predictable”, and so, in order to be sure, energy grid providers HAVE to plan on the unexpected