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Polar vortex returns: Here’s where it’ll be coldest
CBS News ^ | Dec. 13, 2016 | CBS News

Posted on 12/13/2016 10:16:03 PM PST by Innovative

Extreme cold is moving across more of the country this week, bringing with it the potential for record lows and dangerous conditions for children, pets and anyone else without adequate protection — all thanks to a weather phenomenon known as the polar vortex.

What is the polar vortex?

This phrase is once again in the headlines, and worth re-defining. The “polar vortex” technically refers to a large area of low pressure and cold air that surrounds both of the Earth’s poles, according to the National Weather Service. It’s always existed at the poles, but the polar vortex strengthens in particular during the winter and can send cold air southward. 

Temperatures dip to dangerous lows when the polar vortex expands, sending thermometers plummeting.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalcooling; globalwarming; polarvortex; snowflakes; tears
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To: Fresh Wind

“They’ve been naming winter storms for a while now, but have they started naming cold waves?”

I think they’ll start naming Summer storms.


41 posted on 12/14/2016 12:24:42 AM PST by Cololeo
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To: Salamander

“There was a puddle beside my sidewalk, yesterday.”

Did you name it as a navigable waterway?


42 posted on 12/14/2016 12:26:05 AM PST by Cololeo
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To: MayflowerMadam

Oh my...that’s a whole night’s worth of wild-eyed schadenfreude.

Thanks!

:)


43 posted on 12/14/2016 12:26:22 AM PST by Salamander (I'm Your Pain...)
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To: Cololeo

Being a biker who lives for sunny days, I’ve been naming them for decades.

They’re all called “AWDAMMIT!!!”


44 posted on 12/14/2016 12:28:13 AM PST by Salamander (I'm Your Pain...)
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To: Salamander
There was a puddle beside my sidewalk, yesterday.

Don't tell the EPA, just shovel and shut up, lol. Tamp the fill dirt down well, otherwise it'll be a sensitive mountain ecosystem.

45 posted on 12/14/2016 12:28:56 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Cololeo

Due to the unseasonable appearance of a *real* salamander, nearby, it would have been designated a wetland, instead.

:)


46 posted on 12/14/2016 12:29:42 AM PST by Salamander (I'm Your Pain...)
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To: Salamander

We ride EVERY DAY here in Az, heh heh


47 posted on 12/14/2016 12:33:58 AM PST by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (------->VMFA 235 '69-'72 KMCAS <------- "Death Angels")
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To: RegulatorCountry

You jest but this actually happened to my dad, who owned the mountain above me.

The EPA kept nagging him about the “stream” than runs parallel to my lane.

This started because he was throwing cuttings from timber in the ditch where a stream *once* was, hundreds of years ago.

It shows up on a 1789 map, therefore, the EPA said it was still a stream.

However, the ground beneath this area is positively riddled with underground springs, which change, shift and disappear, all the time.

The “stream” in question was only a dim memory of another time.

It does have runoff water in heavy rains but so do the streets in town and nobody is freaking out about that,

After years of harassment, dad got fed up.

He waited for the EPA wonk to show up, while sitting on the front porch of his cabin with a rifle on his lap.

He never said what really happened, beyond that detail, but that was the last we ever saw of the EPA, who seemed to leave in one hell of a hurry.

And dad went back to throwing branches in the ditch.


48 posted on 12/14/2016 12:37:21 AM PST by Salamander (I'm Your Pain...)
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To: hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998

Aaaah, shaddup!

:D


49 posted on 12/14/2016 12:37:58 AM PST by Salamander (I'm Your Pain...)
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To: tubebender

I don’t want it here. Let’s keep it where it normally is. Fine with me.


50 posted on 12/14/2016 12:51:39 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: Innovative

Al Gore’s garage.


51 posted on 12/14/2016 1:20:05 AM PST by SoFloFreeper (Isaiah 25:8)
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To: Innovative

BTW, this pathetic term “Polar Vortex” is nothing but a euphemism for the JET STREAM. I am on good personal terms with a bonafide meteorologist...when “polar vortex” started sneaking into the media, I asked him directly about this. He confirmed my suspicions. This is basically the difference between “climate change” and “global warming”.


52 posted on 12/14/2016 1:24:33 AM PST by SoFloFreeper (Isaiah 25:8)
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To: Innovative

So. Winter returns to many of you lower 48ers?
Welcome the the party.


53 posted on 12/14/2016 1:28:28 AM PST by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: umgud

It’s 9 outside. Still not cold yet. The next football game will still have packed stands for the Packers.


54 posted on 12/14/2016 1:38:03 AM PST by poinq
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To: MayflowerMadam; Salamander
What is best in life is to defeat the Democrats, drive them even further bat guano crazy, to make mint tea out of their piteous tears, and hear the lamentations of their snowflakes and basement dwelling cocoa drinking panama boys.
55 posted on 12/14/2016 2:34:31 AM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: hulagirl

I’ve lived in Alaska for 25 years, every time i fly out to someplace warm like a layover in Honolulu i’m stuck in the motel with the AC on high! I die when i get in temps over 80f.
Or high humidity, but yet there isn’t a day i wish to buy a house on one of the islands, up a bit from the beach, leeward so to see a setting sun, minimal VOG, an estate i can name it.

But no dobermans or a live in that always has to drive my expensive vehicles.


56 posted on 12/14/2016 2:38:09 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey (MAGA)
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To: reaganaut

It will be 27 F. in Southern Maryland tomorrow. That is cold enough for me.


57 posted on 12/14/2016 2:39:56 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Innovative

the last three months?


58 posted on 12/14/2016 2:47:42 AM PST by babble-on
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To: Innovative

Not sure. I think the warming melts the ice and the air gets super cold? And then when its super hot again its because the warming overwhelmed the cold air again? And the warming somehow causes any and all other detrimental weather phenomena? Not having a superior liberal mind Im really too ignorant to fully understand the complexities. We just need to believe. Warmists assure me the debate is over, 105% of the scientists all agree.


59 posted on 12/14/2016 2:55:02 AM PST by Stopthethreat
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To: Daniel Ramsey
But no dobermans

Pfffft. You're no fun at all.

:-P

60 posted on 12/14/2016 2:56:21 AM PST by Salamander (I'm Your Pain...)
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