Expert are warning of a polar vortex collapse in the next couple of weeks, plunging North America into freezing ... giving us our mild, damp climate. “With a stronger jet stream, stormy and ...

As the National Weather Service explains, the polar vortex is an area of low pressure and cold air that exists over both of Earth’s poles 10 to 30 miles above the surface. The term vortex is used to ...

During an ice age, the polar regions are cold ... often blanketing North America with ice. Our climate today is actually a warm interval between these many periods of glaciation.

Today, due to the rapidly melting ice sheets of the Arctic Ocean, Greenland and Antarctica, polar exploration can reveal the immediacy of the world's climate change crisis ... Ocean along the northern ...

How is climate change affecting polar regions? Climate change is amplified in the ... the El Niño climate pattern that often brings intense rains to North and South America and droughts to Australia ...

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An in-depth look at the forecasted polar vortex collapse and its potential effects on weather patterns across North America this March ... giving us our mild, damp climate.

while a weak polar vortex leads to a weaker and wavier jet stream. The Met Office explains: “In a typical UK winter, the jet stream brings winds from the west, giving us our mild, damp climate.