Here comes polar vortex TWO

IceAgeNow.info ^ | 13JAN2014 | Robert Felix

[Jack Hydrazine]

“This is way overdone,” says meteorologist Joe Bastardi. “The one coming around Jan 25-31 will be much stronger.”

Another Arctic blast to hit US next week, shouts the Daily Mail. A new cold-front is expected to hit the East Coast on Thursday.

The upcoming front of icy temperatures is expected to bring arctic air to southern Canada and then move into the northern plains of the U.S. before moving to the Midwest and East Coast – each of which is still recovering from last week’s frigid temperatures.

Forecasters expect the first stage of the new arctic blast to hit the northern plains by Monday, the lower Mississippi Valley and Midwest Tuesday and Wednesday then the East from Thursday.

Weather experts expect temperatures to stay above zero in most locations in the Ohio Valley, central Appalachians, the northern Plains and the Upper Midwest.

North Central states and states in the interior Northeast, however, are expected to see temperatures at or below zero.

Additionally, anyone near the Great Lakes should also expect lake-effect snow.

[mylife]

The harshest cold weather tends to come in Feb, so stand by...

[Fiji Hill]

Down here, the old timers call it a “Kou Nor”, meaning a hit from the north.

Or coup nord.

[Fiji Hill]

Meanwhile, Southern California will be in the mid-80’s this week. For the past month, temperatures have been way above normal, and the ten-day forecast calls for more of the same.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I’m sure Al Gore is hiding out there where he lives.

[The Cajun]

Or coup nord.

Yup, went with how it's pronounced in Cajun French.
Probably based on the proper French of " coup de grâce" with "de grâce" replaced with "nord" (north).

But it is pronounced "Kou Nor" down here.

[djf]

Polar Vortex = Northern Jet Stream

Sort of.

There actually is a difference this year in the weather patterns. I explained it to my neighbor about 2 weeks ago.

I live in the Seattle area, kinda. Everyone has, I am sure, heard about the rain.

Yeah. It does rain. It rains alot sometimes.
During the winter, mostly.

9 out of 10 years the predominant thing that controls weather here is a massive low pressure system over the gulf of Alaska. That coincides with a southerly jet stream.
The effect here is called the “pineapple express”, massive incoming flows of sub-tropical warm and very moist air coming in, thus the rain.

But sometimes, nature fakes us out. Like this year.

This year, the effect is reversed, and there is a monstrous, totally dominant high pressure system over the east pacific/gulf of Alaska region.

What that means for us in the PNW is a winter that is cooler than normal, but also much, much drier. It’s been so dry here this year that some of the ski areas STILL have not opened. The air coming our way is coming down from BC instead of coming in off the warmer and wetter Pacific tropical region.

That high pressure system, and the jet stream that goes along with it, are what is causing the polar vortexes. Even a small low pressure region over the north central US or the New England region gets magnified way beyond how much effect that it would normally have.

The result there being that VERY COLD AIR, literally air that might have been directly over the north pole 24 hours ago gets funneled and fast-tracked right down towards the eastern half of the US.

It’s not unheard of, but it is true that this is not the normal pattern, where the jet stream comes into the US in the So Cal area during the winter.

[Slyfox]

Who ever is tinkering with them thar weather machines better cut it out.

[FreeReign]

The Polar Vortex is a persistent Arctic or Antarctic low pressure area. Cold Arctic high pressure areas pinwheel around the Polar Vortex's counter cloackwise circuation. It's the mechanism that brings cold air south. In the northern hemisphere PVs are usually centered in Siberia and the Baffin Islands in Canada. Some years like this year the PV is located just a little further south.

Most reporters don't have a clue what it is.

Hope that explains it.

[Fiji Hill]

"Kou Nor" is how you pronounce coup nord in standard French. It apparently means "north shot," an appropriate name for such a phenomenon.

[The Cajun]

*Kou* down here usually means a *hit*, as in a punch during a fist fight :)

[Nowhere Man]

Just curious, is “polar vortex”, what we used to call a “cold front” or Arctic cold front”?

I remember when they were called "Alberta Clippers" too.

[P.O.E.]

NO! A polar vortex is way way way more scarier BOO!

It’s past the point of being Ridiculous, really.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Global Warming Alarmists, Looking Ridiculous, Double Down
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/17377-global-warming-alarmists-looking-ridiculous-double-down

[Jack Hydrazine]

Global Warming Alarmism Melting as Record Cold Sweeps Nation
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/17324-global-warming-alarmism-melting-as-record-cold-sweeps-nation

[munin]

And who finances them all?

Well, you do, and the rest of us tax payers, but then you knew that didn’t you? LOL

[munin]

Just curious, is “polar vortex”, what we used to call a “cold front” or Arctic cold front”?

I remember when they were called “Alberta Clippers” too.

And a BLUE NORTHERN as well

[JoeProBono]

[Squawk 8888]

From the French “Coup du nord’.

BTW I’m Acadien. Given that there were only 39 families there’s a chance we’re distantly related. My ancestors took the oath and stayed in Nova Scotia.

[Patriot Babe]

Is this the POLAR EXPRESS? =)

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Just curious, is “polar vortex”, what we used to call a “cold front” or Arctic cold front”?

In New England it used to be called the Montreal Express in my younger days. The new generation needs new names to excite themselves.