Polar Vortex Blog

A blog about monitoring and forecasting the stratospheric polar vortexes and how they do and don’t—mostly don’t!*—affect extreme winter weather and seasonal climate. *Seriously, we’ll probably spend a lot of time explaining how the latest wintry weather blast bearing down on us from Canada probably has nothing to do with the polar vortex.

Disclaimer

Climate.gov’s Polar Vortex Blog is written, edited, and moderated by Amy Butler (NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory) and Laura Ciasto (NOAA Climate Prediction Center), with editorial and graphics support from the Climate.gov team (NOAA Climate Program Office). These are blog posts by subject matter experts, not official agency communications; if you quote from these posts or from the comments section, you should attribute the quoted material to the individual blogger or commenter, not to NOAA or or Climate.gov.

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Polar Vortex Blog

Polar Vortex Blog November 30, 2023 Comments: 1

Coming soon! Climate.gov launching new blog

By Rebecca Lindsey

Few topics capture our readers' interest like the polar vortex. Next Tuesday, December 5, we plan to feed that interest with the launch of a new blog dedicated the winds, climate, and chemistry of the polar stratosphere. Come back next week for our first installment! Read article