As this relative polar warming increased during February, the NASA maps show that colder
than normal temperatures expanded over North America through Canada and parts of the Northern U.S. even as a cold spell began to blossom in Europe.
Do they
expand and shrink in a change of
temperature; because they have nothing better to do — OR, they
expand when warmed, to increase the volume of the atmosphere = to release more heat AND, they shrink when cooled more
than normal, to preserve heat.