{"id":1266,"date":"2014-11-10T12:44:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T17:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:18:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:18:36","slug":"what-are-the-jet-stream-and-polar-vortex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/11\/what-are-the-jet-stream-and-polar-vortex\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the “jet stream” and “polar vortex”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the next week you will hear a lot about the terms “jet stream” and “polar vortex” if you have not already.\u00a0 What are these phenomena?\u00a0 A couple of easy to understand references you can use:<\/p>\n

AthensGAWeather<\/em> has a link to a website at the bottom of the page with a simple 2-minute explanation of the jet stream by Paul Knight, the State Climatologist of Pennsylvania here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ABC News has a story about the polar vortex here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The graphic below shows some misconceptions of the polar vortex from Dr. Marshall Shepherd, host of WxGeeks on The Weather Channel.<\/p>\n

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In the next week you will hear a lot about the terms “jet stream” and “polar vortex” if you have not already.\u00a0 What are these phenomena?\u00a0 A couple of easy to understand references you can use: AthensGAWeather has a link to a website at the bottom of the page with a simple 2-minute explanation of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":1169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22925,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/22925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}