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ABC7 Meteorologist Cheryl Scott sits down with Illinois state climatologist Trent Ford to dive deeper into the meaning of the polar vortex and its impact here in Illinois.
As extreme winter weather sweeps the Midwest, Texas and Southeast, PG&E and other utilities are asking California customers to help by conserving energy in the evening hours.
That's warmer than in chicago well what is happening across north america can be blamed on what's known as the winter vortex there are two rivers of air circulating above us one is known as the jet stream and its movements are what allow more me cold fronts to migrate across the planet if you go higher up about forty eight kilometers you find what's known as the stratospheric polar vortex it's that circle you see right there now that's a river of wind around the north pole and it only forms during the winter sometimes the jet stream flow is erratic and weak and this can allow wind from the pol...
Here in chicago you're smack dab in the middle of this winter vortex freeze how's the weather right now. it's a beautiful day in small doses we went for a little walk he stay out of the wind it's not too bad the errors is cold the sun is out but the wind is pretty errors. what would you say this winter vortex what does it tell us what can it tell us about climate change is this the fire or is this the fire alarm. well it's hard to interpret any given mean there would be weather even if there weren't a change in climate so any single event is a little dangerous to attribute to human causes but ...
A warming planet why first guest tonight hopefully has some of the answers he is the author of the award winning book the long fall how humans are changing the next one hundred thousand years of earth's climate and he has one of the world's leading climatologists specializing in climate change i'm happy to welcome tonight professor david archer from the energy policy institute at the university of chicago fessor archer's good to have you on the day with us tonight here in chicago you're smack dab in the middle of this winter vortex freeze how's the weather right now. it's a beautiful day in sm...