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Icy Air From Slipping Polar Vortex


Weather | 206921 hits | Nov 10 9:52 am | Posted by: N_Fiddledog
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As the polar vortex gets displaced to the south, the door will open for arctic air to plunge down as far as most of the United States as the new week progresses.

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  1. by avatar N_Fiddledog
    Mon Nov 10, 2014 5:58 pm

  2. by avatar BartSimpson Gold Member
    Mon Nov 10, 2014 7:01 pm
    "Polar vortex" being the new buzzword for describing "winter". :roll:

  3. by avatar N_Fiddledog
    Mon Nov 10, 2014 7:25 pm
    There's a positive to that.

    Used to be cold weather on the American channels was always simply described as a "cold front" moving down from ".

    Now we can beat the rap. "Hey, wasn't us. It was that damned Polar Vortex". :lol:

  4. by avatar andyt
    Tue Nov 11, 2014 2:08 am
    The Japanese did it.

  5. by avatar Jabberwalker
    Tue Nov 11, 2014 3:28 am
    that damned Polar Vortex

    DuPont chemicals did it!

  6. by Regina Gold Member
    Tue Nov 11, 2014 4:12 am
    It's not winter yet........that's why these temps frighten me. That's just plain fucking nasty cold weather.

  7. by avatar Caelon
    Tue Nov 11, 2014 5:44 am
    "Regina" said
    It's not winter yet........that's why these temps frighten me. That's just plain fucking nasty cold weather.



    It is nothing unusual. Most years in October or November we get a 1 to 2 week cold snap. We had a pretty nice October so I guess it is November's turn.

  8. by avatar Caelon
    Tue Nov 11, 2014 5:50 am
    Just checked and found out there is a 90% chance this will be an El Nino year. That would be great as it makes for a mild winter in our area if it is a strong versus weak El Nino. Some other parts of the world won't be as thrilled with how it affects their weather.

  9. by avatar N_Fiddledog
    Tue Nov 11, 2014 7:13 am
    "Caelon" said
    Just checked and found out there is a 90% chance this will be an El Nino year.


    Where?

    NOAA is telling me this...

    ENSO Alert System Status: El Niño WatchENSO
    -
    neutral conditions continue.*
    Positive equatorial sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies continue across most of the Pacific Ocean.


    There is a 58% chance of El Niño during the Northern Hemisphere winter,
    which is favored to last into the Northern Hemisphere spring 2015.*



    http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/a ... ts-web.pdf

  10. by avatar Freakinoldguy
    Tue Nov 11, 2014 7:16 am
    "Caelon" said
    Just checked and found out there is a 90% chance this will be an El Nino year. That would be great as it makes for a mild winter in our area if it is a strong versus weak El Nino. Some other parts of the world won't be as thrilled with how it affects their weather.


    Strange because I just found this which seems to contradict what you found.

    http://www.vox.com/2014/11/8/7177709/el ... -weakening

    So once again one of the only two professions in the world which can be 100% wrong and still keep their job seems to be hedging their bets. :wink:

  11. by avatar N_Fiddledog
    Tue Nov 11, 2014 7:21 am
    In any case, I sometimes wonder how much money a person could make betting against such predictions.

    But yeah FOG, thanks. I think I get the discrepancy between the two predictions now.

    The National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center has dropped the odds of El Niño appearing this winter down to 58 percent (a few months ago, those odds were at 80 percent). And if El Niño does form, forecasters now think it will be a "weak" one — not a strong event, as once thought.



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