Polar vortex 2014

En Estados Unidos afectó a 1millones. Record-low temperatures also extended well into March. Informar sobre otra imagen Denunciar una imagen ofensiva. A swirling blast of Arctic air has descended over much of the Continental U. Montana to Alabama to New York.

Midwest suffers lowest temperatures in two decades.

Live coverage of all developments. A polar vortex is a low-pressure system of cold polar air—a normal weather phenomenon. NOAA Enhanced Data Display). Looking for milder temperatures?

Even places in the United States that are typically fairly warm in winter have been impacted by this cold shot. A frontal system that brought rain to the coast is draped from north to south along the U. Behind the front lies the clearer skies bitter cold air associated with the Polar Vortex. There has been a lot of interest in the polar vortex this winter.

However, along with this interest comes some confusion.

Justin Gillis contributed reporting. The so-called polar vortex of dense, frigid air that dropped temperatures in some parts of the country to record lows is now spreading to southern and eastern parts of the U. A quick local news segue, the wintry assault here in Chicago as a result of the Polar Vortex has been bitterly cold and dangerous as temperatures plunged to historic lows over the last hours. The landscape, especially along the . The cold air of the polar vortex is purple.

Diversity is really important - in biology, in culture, and in energy production. The polar vortex that hammered the United State last week demonstrated how badly we need a diverse energy mix (a third fossil, a third nuclear and a third renewable would do nicely) and how lucky we were to have significant . The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is a not-for-profit international regulatory authority whose mission is to ensure the reliability of the bulk power system (BPS ) in North America. NERC develops and enforces Reliability . Arctic air associated with the polar vortex will lunge into the North Central United States early next week and will expand southward and eastward to affect about 2million. The entry of a large area of low pressure, from the Polar Vortex , into the northern United States on Jan.

The gifts it brings, however, are chilling and generally . Climate Change Might Just Be Driving the Historic Cold Snap. But it could be that melting Arctic ice is making sudden cold snaps more likely—not less. The energy use is driven by a polar vortex , which has caused record-setting low temperatures across much of the country.

While other grid operators have not set new peaks, nearly every system operator has been stretched thin in recent days. We are several days into some record-breaking temperatures . A person struggles to cross a street in blowing and falling snow Sunday, Jan.

On Sunday night, a reporter for The Weather Channel stood in a Minnesota snowstorm, talking about local efforts to move homeless children into heated shelters. The gist of his argument was simple an outwardly at least, intuitive. Those few days of extreme cold across the Atlantic . January when lights and heaters stayed on even as the polar vortex swept over the country.

But it was a close run thing, as regulators revealed in a new report published on Tuesday.