Why the U.S. has been home to Earth’s most unusually cold air this year

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/02/21/polar-vortex-unusual-cold-united-states/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com

by washingtonpost

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  1. The polar vortex has taken on an unexpected pattern this winter — one that’s made part of the United States the most unusually cold place on the planet, at least so far this year.

    While the swirling mass of freezing air is typically located in northern Canada, Greenland and across the Arctic — keeping the Northern Hemisphere’s coldest conditions bottled up near the North Pole — this year the vortex has been residing hundreds of miles farther south.

    Like an octopus’s tentacles, lobes of the vortex that forms every winter have been touching southern Canada and the United States all year, and much more frequently than usual.

    Read more here: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/02/21/polar-vortex-unusual-cold-united-states/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com](https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/02/21/polar-vortex-unusual-cold-united-states/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com)

  3. I suspect the answer is: put a bunch of energy into a system and shit moves around.

    My friends in Anchorage sent me a picture of their green lawn around Xmas. These days, when it’s cold in one place, it’s boiling in another.

  4. If I were religious, thankfully I am not, I’d have said this is part of our punishment from allowing traitors control over the government.

  6. The GOP is just letting their inner feelings out into the public. No warmth there.

  7. Monkeys paw reality for me. I never have to worry about winter but I live in Florida.

  8. Wtf. This is not accesible content. stop posting paywall content. 

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