Posted on 02/17/2021 4:53:02 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
It’s as if the world has been turned upside-down, or at least its weather. You can blame the increasingly familiar polar vortex, which has brought a taste of the Arctic to places where winter often requires no more than a jacket.
Around the North Pole, winter’s ultra-cold air is usually kept bottled up 15 to 30 miles high. That’s the polar vortex, which spins like a whirling top at the top of the planet. But occasionally something slams against the top, sending the cold air escaping from its Arctic home and heading south. It’s been happening more often, and scientists are still not completely sure why, but they suggest it’s a mix of natural random weather and human-caused climate change.
“It’s been a major breakdown,” said Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center on Cape Cod. “It really is the cause of all of these crazy weather events in the Northern Hemisphere.”
“It’s been unusual for a few weeks now — very, very crazy,” Francis said. “Totally topsy-turvy.”
While both the vortex and the wave that bumped it are natural, and polar vortex breakdowns happen naturally, there is likely an element of climate change at work, but it is not a sure thing that science agrees on.
“There is evidence that climate change can weaken the polar vortex, which allows more chances for frigid Arctic air to ooze into the Lower 48,” said University of Georgia meteorology professor Marshall Shepherd.
As for people thinking this cold outbreak disproves global warming, scientists say that’s definitely not so.
Even with climate change, “we’ll still have winter,” said North Carolina state climatologist Kathie Dello. “What we’re seeing here is we’re pretty unprepared for almost every type of extreme weather. It’s pretty sad.”
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They are starting to. Last week they were floating ideas how to ‘correct’ the impact from solar events
Due to the COVID lockdown, with industries shuttered, zero commute work, Zoom meetings, elimination of vacation travel, our generation of that eeeeevil CO2 has plummeted.
That constant dumb beat of how CO2 will inevitably raise temperatures must be true. We cut CO2 production, and now we have an amazingly cold, harsh, Dark Winter.
A future free of the essential plant nutrient CO2 means freezing to death in the dark, just as intended...
No Shiite? Here I always thought that bitterly cold weather and snow came from an equatorial blast!
The weather channel will now be naming cold waves.
In New England, it was called “The Montreal Express.”
We’re in a solar minimum?
...maybe a Grand Solar Minimum?
As I understand it, expect some of the following...
This may be a grand solar minimum lasting until 2035-2050
This will include...
Very deep fluctuations of the jet stream to the far South
...bringing colder weather South
Including
Wild fluctuations in temperatures
Wild fluctuations from arid to flooding in unusual areas
Cold fronts moving South later in the spring. Last year, look at the freak snow storms in May, the very late planting season, with very wet ground.
Peak, if this GSM is accurate, will be 2028-2037
We’re in a solar minimum?
...maybe a Grand Solar Minimum?
As I understand it, expect some of the following...
This may be a grand solar minimum lasting until 2035-2050
This will include...
Very deep fluctuations of the jet stream to the far South
...bringing colder weather South
Including
Wild fluctuations in temperatures
Wild fluctuations from arid to flooding in unusual areas
Cold fronts moving South later in the spring. Last year, look at the freak snow storms in May, the very late planting season, with very wet ground.
Peak, if this GSM is accurate, will be 2028-2037
I remember it being called an Alberta Clipper here in NJ. Or a clipper system. They don’t seem to be using that terminology anymore.
...or, this could all simply be caused by algore’s high carbon footprint abt globull warning
Everyone knows the poles on this planet are too warm to freeze water. That’s why there’s no ice at the poles any more.
The cold weather can’t be coming from the “polar vortex.” This is deep space air. It falls to earth from intergalactic space and brings wildly cold temperatures with it.
/s
Climate models usually only count solar irradiance, that is to say only the light coming from the Sun in their models. When there is a lot of solar activity, sunspots and coronal holes, the irradiance drops.
BUT the net energy delivered rises, in terms of solar particles, solar wind, and Coronal Mass Ejections. The most used models totally neglect these inputs.
With the weakening magnetic field, there is less shielding of these charged particles, they are still funneled to the magnetic poles, but not as slowed down. The slam into the atmosphere there.
That counts as “something” slamming against the top of the polar vortex...
Freaking out about Global Cooling...how very 1970’s of them.
If Texas can't depend on them how does any other state rationalize their use?
It's not a direct opposite, but we could coin a new word to fill one of the linguistic voids: "transplaining"...
I sailed an Alberta Clipper along the Montreal Express once. Sun wasn't setting so much as the horizon's moving up.
For some bazar reason people think the weather is like a train schedule it’s on tome every time.
The weather has no set pattern it’s always changing ice age not ice age repeat.
I remember getting hit with a “Siberian Express” in the 80’s with much of the same weather but with none of the problems TX is going through now.
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