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The Polar Vortex Has Shifted Into Reverse – And Is Now Spinning Backwards
Science Alert ^ | 04 05 2024 | David Nield

Posted on 04/08/2024 5:57:05 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

A major current of circulating air called the Arctic polar vortex has completely reversed course and is now spinning 'backwards'. With winds now blowing easterly, scientists are trying to predict what effect this might have on weather systems in the coming months.

Before you start envisioning the sudden collapse of our planet's weather systems, these reversals aren't all that unusual. While the strength of the reversed winds has attracted attention, this is not the first reversal this year.

During the summer months in the Northern Hemisphere, the vortex's circulating winds slow down and start spinning easterly (clockwise around the Arctic) too.

However, reversals from westerly to easterly during the winter months can have significant impacts, and few are as dramatic as the one we've seen in March 2024. It's in the top six strongest reversals since 1979, climate scientist Amy Butler from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), told Spaceweather.com.

As described by NOAA climate scientist Rebecca Lindsey, this winter's stratospheric events have been anything but typical, providing "plenty of drama" to keep researchers busy until air returns to a westerly circulation in the following weeks.

The polar vortex sits in the stratosphere, which starts at around 6–20 kilometers (4–12 miles) above the planet's surface and reaches roughly 50 kilometers (around 31 miles) above. While most of the weather we experience is a feature of the troposphere below it, extreme stratospheric winds of up to 250 km/hr keep a pocket of cold air trapped over the North Pole.

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Reversals aren't unusual.

"this winter's stratospheric events have been anything but typical"

So everything's normal?

1 posted on 04/08/2024 5:57:05 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

> A major current of circulating air called the Arctic polar vortex has completely reversed course … <

That’s science. And it explains my sudden urge to walk backwards.

My cat laughed and mocked me when I did that. Who’s the fool now, Mr. Whiskers?


2 posted on 04/08/2024 6:09:18 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Oh no we’re all gonna die. Send Greta Thunberg to the North Pole.


3 posted on 04/08/2024 6:09:42 PM PDT by George J. Jetso
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To: yesthatjallen

Oh no! Give the climatards more money and restrict more freedoms!

Quick!


4 posted on 04/08/2024 6:12:08 PM PDT by Allegra (Less propaganda would be appreciated.)
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To: yesthatjallen

“ A major current of circulating air called the Arctic polar vortex has completely reversed course and is now spinning ‘backwards’. ”

Horrific , we must act now.
Scientists had come up with a name for this.
That are calling it “spring”.


5 posted on 04/08/2024 6:13:19 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: yesthatjallen

Here's the cause of that polar vortex.


      

6 posted on 04/08/2024 6:19:09 PM PDT by Songcraft ( )
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To: yesthatjallen

So it’s not a big deal, happens all the time, but Climutt Chainz?


7 posted on 04/08/2024 6:22:48 PM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: yesthatjallen

Wow, the Vortex bats both ways. How woke!


8 posted on 04/08/2024 6:26:00 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: yesthatjallen
Dancing Madly Backwards (On A Sea Of Air)

I have this album somewhere in my rows of milk crates with LPs


9 posted on 04/08/2024 6:28:15 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Scientists say more Communism will fix it.


10 posted on 04/08/2024 6:37:39 PM PDT by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Since 1979....when the records began. We have no idea what happened prior to this.


11 posted on 04/08/2024 6:52:12 PM PDT by ealgeone
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“”Since 1979....when the records began. We have no idea what happened prior to this.””

Reminds me of the “ozone hole” hoax. One camera notices the lessening of the ozone in the Antarctic, and......we’re all gonna die!!! After actually watching and observing over time, it turns out the so-called hole oscillates over time.

In other words, it’s natural.

The Globull Warming, Globull Cooling, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Globull Hoaxers will get ready for an grand oscillation, when the next Ice Age begins.


12 posted on 04/08/2024 7:00:23 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: All

Make Mammoths Great Again!


13 posted on 04/08/2024 7:09:02 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: Leaning Right

Are you assuming your cat’s gender or did you discuss it with him before posting?


14 posted on 04/08/2024 7:12:00 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

My prediction is more Category 5 hurricanes. Or not. But there will definitely be a heat wave in Texas.


15 posted on 04/08/2024 7:40:04 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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“ My prediction is more Category 5 hurricanes. Or not. ”

So EVERY spring they predict this. And of course “climate change” is the reason they give.
And then it doesn’t happen.
But no one ever goes back in November and says “bad science, you blew it , your predictions were garbage“.
They get away with it.
But one year WE WILL have a bad and destructive season.
Then they (whoever “they” is) will claim, “see we told you climate change is real, WE NEED IMMEDIATE ACTION”


16 posted on 04/08/2024 8:24:09 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

It is the same for people who predict large drops in the stock market. No one every calls them out as they are useful idiots to get the rubes to sell in a bull market.


17 posted on 04/08/2024 8:27:52 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Leaning Right

My cat would have taken a bite out of you, polar vortex or not. She hates to have her routine upset or her rules broken. Plus she’s the only one allowed to be weird.


18 posted on 04/08/2024 8:28:41 PM PDT by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: yesthatjallen
The Polar Vortex Has Shifted Into Reverse

That mean Jussie Smellut's submarine sandwich gonna get blowed back in his face? His "racial attack" hoax gonna reverse itself?

/intentional misspellings

Regards,

19 posted on 04/08/2024 10:45:01 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Don’t forget to throw in some acid rain!


20 posted on 04/09/2024 2:08:44 AM PDT by lizma2
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