In the Midwest from the US, the temperatures will drop till -46C or lower. Warming shelters are open, and officials fear that many people who live on the streets will not survive. The current blast of Arctic air from the Polar Vortex brought temperatures to a dangerous low. Climate Change Makes Polar Vortex Killing Life. Schools are closed 1000 flights are canceled.
The Polar Vortex Going More South Of The US
Normally the Polar Vortex stays around the North Pole, but now it has gone down all the way to the south of the United States.
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Climate Change Reduces The Amount Of Ice In The Arctic Sea
The term Polar Vortex is nothing new. It appeared already in 1853 in an article written by E. Littell’s Living Age.
Deadly polar vortex sweeping Midwest with wind chills as low as minus 65
It is a large area of cold air and low pressure surrounding the South and the North poles. The flow is counterclockwise, which normally keeps the cold air close to the poles. In wintertime, in the Northern Hemisphere, the Vortex gets less stable and lowers more south. Because of climate change and global warming, some investigators have suggested reducing the Arctic sea ice. For this reason, Arctic cold air can go more south. So the contradictory conclusion can be made that global warming can cause an extreme cold.
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