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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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IN 1950, I stood at a train station in Hutchinson, Kansas. People got off the train at 6 degrees, and said it was WARM. When they had gotten on the train it was minus 16 and for them, it was warm at 6 degrees. It comes and goes. It all is much context. When I complain, I remember Ernest Shackleton and his expedition to Antartica.
They’ve actually declared a plowed field to be a mountain range somewhere out west, I’ve read. It’s lunacy, anti-private property and quite honestly anti-human being. Needs to stop.
Polar Vortex? I think it’s called the Jet Stream
Yeah looks like 74 degrees up here in Panhandle on Friday with 40+ mph winds and 28 degrees for a high with snow on Saturday ....... Texas weather.....:o)
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
When I was growing up, they used to call it Winter
That's because it's here in Macomb........9 degrees as I type
“Polar vortex” ... please.
It’s called a “cold snap.”
When I was a boy, they used to call this winter. We would put on mittens, hats and furry coats and go about our business.
Now we have scary things like polar vortexs and we need to shelter in place and cancel outdoor activities. My town cancelled their annual Winterfest a couple years ago on account of snow and cold. I am not making that up.
You can always come here to Dallas and laugh at all the little hipster faggots who think 45 is cold. I saw one yesterday in Irving, wearing one of those skiiers' half-facemasks. I laughed at him...hope he heard me.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho! God Bless Texas!
My favorite of all the election coverage is the meltdown by The Young Turks. They entered that night smiling and cocksure. By the end, Cenk was squawking about “taking over the democrat party” and spewing some neurotic noise about how Elizabeth Warren will hand Trump his ass in 2020. It’s some seriously good stuff!
Whoooooo could imagine . . . .
I liked it when it was the “Alberta Clipper”!
and this is different from an alberta clipper, how ?
High pressure over Lake Baikal?
"Re-defining"? How about "re-stating"? Only is CBS La La land can you redefine a word every time you use it.
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The Polar Vortex sounds more Global. Gotta use the right narrative to scare the kiddies on the whole global warming bunk.
I know you're joking, but, it goes sort of like this: Warm air rises, cold air sinks, and the earth spins. This is all unrelated to SUVs and cattle farts. The warm air rising at the equator is mostly moving along with the equator at 1000 mph (otherwise there would be a 1000 mph wind there). Since the poles aren't moving at all, by the time the air gets there (it takes some twists and turns along the way) and starts to sink, it's spinning. That makes it a vortex - spinning air. This has all been happening for a long time, ever since the earth was spinning and had air. The "Polar Vortex" is just a scary new name for it.
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