Predicting and Planning for the Next Polar Vortex?
By Duggan Flanakin We say we can predict and plan for climate chaos 50 years out, but not an imminent vortex? Americans know a lot about planning for hurricanes, and about voluntary and mandatory evacuations. They also know that some hurricanes bring major damage to urban and rural areas, and that sometimes (Katrina comes to mind) people’s failure to heed calls to “get outta Dodge” can have disastrous results. The National Weather Service website explains, whenever a tropical storm forms in the Atlantic or eastern North Pacific [or central North Pacific], the National Oceanic a...
Source: citizensjournal.us
