Sentences with phrase «arctic vortex»

Think they call it a arctic vortex.

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This winter has been particularly snowy, with countless hits from polar vortexes and arctic blasts.

Colder temperatures and weaker high - altitude winds may make the arctic polar vortex even more intense in future winters and trigger greater ozone loss, says atmospheric scientist Paul Newman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, although the losses probably won't approach those in Antarctica.

Mark Fischetti does a great job explaining the polar vortex and how the belt that essentially keeps cold air tucked away up in the arctic is loosening, resulting in the historic and extreme cold -LSB-...]

But a new analysis of more than six decades of daily temperature and snowfall data by Cohen and his team suggests arctic heat waves may actually be linked to severe cold weather at lower latitudes... perhaps through the polar vortex.

Long story short, the polar vortex is the result of global warming changing the semi-permanent weather system over the arctic regions resulting in movement of cold air masses from the arctic region to parts of North America, such as Canada and, unfortunately, poor Buffalo.

Recent intrusions of cold arctic air into the continents may be caused by aberrant behavior of the polar vortex.

Only the Southwest, Hawaii, Alaska and South Florida will escape the grip of the upcoming arctic blast that the polar vortex can be blamed for.

There has been a polar vortex for as long as there has been an arctic region.

However the polar vortex remains over the arctic regions as a great mass of swirling freezing air that persistently circulates counter-clockwise.

As a result of a weakening polar vortex, the movement of the air mass in the arctic begins to change.

As long as the arctic remains warmer than usual, the polar vortex will continue to be a problem for years to come.

The Polar Vortex shifts due to major warming in the arctic polar region has been established climate science for over a decade now.

Recent research suggests that a warming arctic may be contributing to cold snaps like this one in the Northeastern U.S. as a result of a weakened polar vortex.»