Sentences with phrase «polar vortex»

Changes in polar vortex winds high in the stratosphere can alter the global conveyor belt of ocean circulation.

While the upper - troposphere tropical warming induces a poleward shift of the jet in winter, Arctic Amplification and a weaker stratospheric polar vortex result in the opposite effect.

In the 1980s and 2000s, a series of stratospheric sudden warming events weakened polar vortex winds.

This year has seen an exceptionally strong polar vortex over the Arctic (see the red line in the figure).

Bella Hadid remains stylish even during polar vortex temperatures in 3x1 flares, and a bold fringe jacket layered over a cozy turleneck.

The forecast of the stratospheric polar vortex on December 10 is very unfavorable for North America.

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

Reichler's study ventured into new territory by asking if changes in stratospheric polar vortex winds impart heat or cold to the sea, and how that affects the sea.

Researchers told Climate Central that the weather pattern driving the extreme cold into the U.S. — with a weaker polar vortex moving around the Arctic like a slowing spinning top, eventually falling over and blowing open the door to the Arctic freezer — fits with other recently observed instances of unusual fall and wintertime jet stream configurations.

These were accompanied by a tendency towards stronger winter polar vortices throughout the troposphere and lower stratosphere.

I learned about polar vortexes from your hub and found it most interesting...

The research is timely given the extreme winter of 2017 - 2018, including record warm Arctic and low sea ice, record - breaking polar vortex disruption, record - breaking cold and disruptive snowfalls in the United States and Europe, severe «bomb cyclones» and costly nor'easter s, said Judah Cohen, director of seasonal forecasting at AER and lead author of the study.

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.

Both elements conspicuously absent in the tropical tropospheric trends, but abundant in the 20th Century global mean surface anomaly, or in the stratospheric cooling, or the Arctic amplification or the response to Pinatubo, or the increase in water vapour, or the enhancement of the Antarctic polar vortex etc..

In winter, the stratospheric Arctic polar vortex whirls counterclockwise around the North Pole, with the strongest, 80 - mph winds at about 60 degrees north latitude.

The south polar vortex of Saturn's moon Titan stands out in this natural - color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, snapped on July 25, 2012.

The downward path coming from eddy diffusion and the downward flow to the northern polar vortex at the tale end of planetary and gravity waves.

«These are catastrophic rearrangements of circulation in the stratosphere,» and the weaker or reversed polar vortex persists up to two months, Reichler says.

But there is evidence that storminess at lower latitudes — another thing that is expected to increase in a warming world — will make stable polar vortices less common.

It's a head - turning combo for sure, but I can't help feel a little better about this whole polar vortex situation when my outfit gives me hope of warmer days to come.

For the most part, they agreed that the lessons learned during the 2014 polar vortex showed forth in the system's recent performance as a whole.

As they do in most years, the winds creating the Northern Hemisphere polar vortex formed in late August and strengthened through January.

Summer baking just doesn't happen in my house... I hate turning on the oven when it's hot out but thanks to this lovely polar vortex we are experiencing — the doors and windows are open to let the fresh, cool air in!

As these states become more reliant on gas - fired generation, they become more vulnerable to weather - related price swings, like those we saw during the notorious polar vortex in the winter of 2014.

The south polar vortex at Saturn's moon Titan stands out in the dark south against the orange and blue haze layers as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Like other polar vortex intrusions in this and other winters, the cold air is also being hermetically sealed off in the eastern U.S., leaving the West to roast.

There was that whole polar vortex thing, which brought the temperature in Central Park to 4 °F on January 7, 2014.

I was invited to explore the feeding frenzy surrounding the dreaded polar vortex on the NPR show On The Media.

They stem from the wake - up call of the recent polar vortex, when grids came close to collapse after wind, solar, gas and even coal plants were knocked out.

While our weather - beaten friends in the Midwest and Northeast braced for near - record low temperatures and polar vortex snowstorms, Californians rang in the New Year with a rainless January.

One weekend polar vortex, the other one out of the city, next one freezing rain.

While the weather catchphrase of recent winters was the shiver - inducing polar vortex, the buzzword for this winter in the U.S. will be drought.

Cassini has also confirmed the existence of a bizarre hexagon - shaped polar vortex originally glimpsed by the Voyager mission in 1981.

If you want to kick some serious polar vortex butt, get this going in your kitchen asap.

If I have to spend another second putting on boots and stocking caps, and fitting tiny thumbs into even smaller mitten holes to only take it all off five minutes later and then five minutes after that put it all back on again I might experience my very own polar vortex.

«Winter cold extremes linked to high - altitude polar vortex weakening.»