Arctic Vortex News Today

Everything is about ice these days, what with the Winter Olympics in full swing. Concerns that the temperatures at the mountain venue of Sochi would be problematically high have panned out; the lower parts of the downhill slopes are slushy and the bottom of the half-pipe is all bumbly wumply. Injuries and lost medal opportunities are mounting up every day, in part caused by the unusual "Spring" conditions.

For the first time in weeks we are experiencing warm weather in central Minnesota (it is now 21 degrees F) with a bit of snow off and on. But elsewhere there are interesting things happening. First, in far northern California and the Pacific Northwest there will be rain. A LOT of rain. That's great because it will help a little with the drought. But, it will also probably cause some severe flooding. Also, everywhere on the east coast from Atlanta up to New England is experiencing some ...

There's a thing I've been doing every Spring for a few years no, privately. This year I decided to tell you all about it because I think you might find it useful. I call it the "Hope Graph."

By gregladen on April 15, 2013. Why is it snowing so much in the Northern US States this Spring? Two words: Global Warming. Let me ‘splain. Weather is all about air and moisture. The distribution of air is uneven, with some places having more air in big piles, other places having less air, into which the extra air from the big piles of air tends to spill. The big piles form because the surface beneath is relatively warm, causing the air to expand more than in adjoining areas...

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6 killed in 130-vehicle pile-up on icy Texas interstate PTI Dallas (US) | Updated on February 12, 2021 Cars and trucks wedged together after a multi-vehicle pileup on Interstate 35   -  Reuters× Winter storm drops freezing rain, sleet and snow on parts of the US A massive crash involving more than 130 vehicles on an icy Texas interstate left six people dead and dozens injured on Thursday amid a winter storm that dropped freezing rain, sleet and snow on parts of the US. At the scene of the c...

Typhoon kilo. look at this five-day cone of uncertainty. that trek moves it a little further to the west, but it also has the potential to impact the coastline of japan going forward. i want to switch gears quickly and talk about australia. weve had a very cold winter season in the southeastern portions of the country. yeah, how cold was it? well the coldest in 26 years for melbourne. hobart recorded its coldest year in 50 years with even some snowfall along the beaches there as well. >> its unb...

And even for hawaii because you have mountains that are 14,000, 16,000 feet high. obviously its cold up there. but what happened, piers, think about this. think if we had a large water balloon up over the north pole. and somebody poked it. well, all of a sudden all of that cold water went stray south because there was nothing to hold it there anymore. the balloon popped. well, thats what happen when this arctic vortex came out. it was supposed to be up here to the north. it popped. and it went a...

Obviously its cold up there. but what happened, piers, think about this. think if we had a large water balloon up over the north pole. and somebody poked it. well, all of a sudden all of that cold water went stray south because there was nothing to hold it there anymore. the balloon popped. well, thats what happen when this arctic vortex came out. it was supposed to be up here to the north. it popped. and it went all the way down to the south. so we had that big big cold air mass drop all the wa...

Obviously its cold up there. but what happened, piers, think about this. think if we had a large water balloon up over the north pole. and somebody poked it. well, all of a sudden all of that cold water went stray south because there was nothing to hold it there anymore. the balloon popped. well, thats what happen when this arctic vortex came out. it was supposed to be up here to the north. it popped. and it went all the way down to the south. so we had that big big cold air mass drop all the wa...