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EXPLAINER: Topsy-turvy weather comes from polar vortex
The Associated Press ^ | February 17, 2021 | By SETH BORENSTEIN

Posted on 02/17/2021 4:53:02 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

It’s as if the world has been turned upside-down, or at least its weather. You can blame the increasingly familiar polar vortex, which has brought a taste of the Arctic to places where winter often requires no more than a jacket.

Around the North Pole, winter’s ultra-cold air is usually kept bottled up 15 to 30 miles high. That’s the polar vortex, which spins like a whirling top at the top of the planet. But occasionally something slams against the top, sending the cold air escaping from its Arctic home and heading south. It’s been happening more often, and scientists are still not completely sure why, but they suggest it’s a mix of natural random weather and human-caused climate change.

“It’s been a major breakdown,” said Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center on Cape Cod. “It really is the cause of all of these crazy weather events in the Northern Hemisphere.”

“It’s been unusual for a few weeks now — very, very crazy,” Francis said. “Totally topsy-turvy.”

While both the vortex and the wave that bumped it are natural, and polar vortex breakdowns happen naturally, there is likely an element of climate change at work, but it is not a sure thing that science agrees on.

“There is evidence that climate change can weaken the polar vortex, which allows more chances for frigid Arctic air to ooze into the Lower 48,” said University of Georgia meteorology professor Marshall Shepherd.

As for people thinking this cold outbreak disproves global warming, scientists say that’s definitely not so.

Even with climate change, “we’ll still have winter,” said North Carolina state climatologist Kathie Dello. “What we’re seeing here is we’re pretty unprepared for almost every type of extreme weather. It’s pretty sad.”

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To: Spok

They are starting to. Last week they were floating ideas how to ‘correct’ the impact from solar events


21 posted on 02/17/2021 5:48:35 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Here's an explanation that makes just as much sense:

Due to the COVID lockdown, with industries shuttered, zero commute work, Zoom meetings, elimination of vacation travel, our generation of that eeeeevil CO2 has plummeted.

That constant dumb beat of how CO2 will inevitably raise temperatures must be true. We cut CO2 production, and now we have an amazingly cold, harsh, Dark Winter.

A future free of the essential plant nutrient CO2 means freezing to death in the dark, just as intended...

22 posted on 02/17/2021 6:06:47 AM PST by null and void (We, MSM, decide what news you can see, and what you can not see, don't you dare call us Not-Sees)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No Shiite? Here I always thought that bitterly cold weather and snow came from an equatorial blast!


23 posted on 02/17/2021 6:14:30 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT The NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR & Faux Snooze! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The weather channel will now be naming cold waves.


24 posted on 02/17/2021 6:18:19 AM PST by pas
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To: Clutch Martin

In New England, it was called “The Montreal Express.”


25 posted on 02/17/2021 6:19:20 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Killer Joe: babies, jobs, tax cuts, he kills them all.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

https://electroverse.net/the-great-arctic-outbreak-of-february-1899-polar-vortex-and-low-solar-activity-to-blame/

We’re in a solar minimum?
...maybe a Grand Solar Minimum?

As I understand it, expect some of the following...
This may be a grand solar minimum lasting until 2035-2050
This will include...
Very deep fluctuations of the jet stream to the far South
...bringing colder weather South
Including
Wild fluctuations in temperatures
Wild fluctuations from arid to flooding in unusual areas
Cold fronts moving South later in the spring. Last year, look at the freak snow storms in May, the very late planting season, with very wet ground.
Peak, if this GSM is accurate, will be 2028-2037


26 posted on 02/17/2021 6:29:39 AM PST by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

https://electroverse.net/the-great-arctic-outbreak-of-february-1899-polar-vortex-and-low-solar-activity-to-blame/

We’re in a solar minimum?
...maybe a Grand Solar Minimum?

As I understand it, expect some of the following...
This may be a grand solar minimum lasting until 2035-2050
This will include...
Very deep fluctuations of the jet stream to the far South
...bringing colder weather South
Including
Wild fluctuations in temperatures
Wild fluctuations from arid to flooding in unusual areas
Cold fronts moving South later in the spring. Last year, look at the freak snow storms in May, the very late planting season, with very wet ground.
Peak, if this GSM is accurate, will be 2028-2037


27 posted on 02/17/2021 6:29:43 AM PST by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: Clutch Martin

I remember it being called an Alberta Clipper here in NJ. Or a clipper system. They don’t seem to be using that terminology anymore.


28 posted on 02/17/2021 6:30:07 AM PST by midnightcat
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To: SheepWhisperer

...or, this could all simply be caused by algore’s high carbon footprint abt globull warning


29 posted on 02/17/2021 6:31:37 AM PST by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Everyone knows the poles on this planet are too warm to freeze water. That’s why there’s no ice at the poles any more.

The cold weather can’t be coming from the “polar vortex.” This is deep space air. It falls to earth from intergalactic space and brings wildly cold temperatures with it.

/s


30 posted on 02/17/2021 6:32:56 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: airborne
They said that “something” slammed against the top of the polar vortex.

Climate models usually only count solar irradiance, that is to say only the light coming from the Sun in their models. When there is a lot of solar activity, sunspots and coronal holes, the irradiance drops.

BUT the net energy delivered rises, in terms of solar particles, solar wind, and Coronal Mass Ejections. The most used models totally neglect these inputs.

With the weakening magnetic field, there is less shielding of these charged particles, they are still funneled to the magnetic poles, but not as slowed down. The slam into the atmosphere there.

That counts as “something” slamming against the top of the polar vortex...

31 posted on 02/17/2021 6:40:10 AM PST by null and void (We, MSM, decide what news you can see, and what you can not see, don't you dare call us Not-Sees)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Freaking out about Global Cooling...how very 1970’s of them.


32 posted on 02/17/2021 6:49:18 AM PST by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
While they continue to lie, using adjectives in place of data, they refuse to address how Windmills and Solar Panels can possibly be legitimated alternatives to fossil fuels.

If Texas can't depend on them how does any other state rationalize their use?

33 posted on 02/17/2021 7:00:46 AM PST by G Larry (Authority is vested in those to whom it applies.)
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To: ßuddaßudd
i dont appreciate being talked down to by this non-male being.. what the opposite of mansplaining ?

It's not a direct opposite, but we could coin a new word to fill one of the linguistic voids: "transplaining"...

34 posted on 02/17/2021 7:01:23 AM PST by null and void (We, MSM, decide what news you can see, and what you can not see, don't you dare call us Not-Sees)
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To: NonValueAdded
In New England, it was called “The Montreal Express.”

I sailed an Alberta Clipper along the Montreal Express once. Sun wasn't setting so much as the horizon's moving up.

35 posted on 02/17/2021 7:33:51 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

For some bazar reason people think the weather is like a train schedule it’s on tome every time.
The weather has no set pattern it’s always changing ice age not ice age repeat.


36 posted on 02/17/2021 9:18:09 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I remember getting hit with a “Siberian Express” in the 80’s with much of the same weather but with none of the problems TX is going through now.


37 posted on 02/17/2021 10:50:10 AM PST by jy8z (When push comes disguised as nudge, I do not budge.)
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