{"id":28544,"date":"2025-02-24T22:06:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T03:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=28544"},"modified":"2025-02-24T22:06:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T03:06:27","slug":"this-cold-air-its-probably-not-the-polar-vortex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2025\/02\/this-cold-air-its-probably-not-the-polar-vortex\/","title":{"rendered":"This cold air? It\u2019s probably not the polar vortex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The words &#8220;polar vortex&#8221; have been trotted out a lot this winter as waves of cold air and, sometimes, snow and ice have occurred. The polar vortex has been blamed for a lot of this activity. In fact, I saw a Facebook post from a retired Atlanta weather broadcaster that claimed we have had 11 polar vortex events this winter, which shows a lack of understanding of what a polar vortex really is. If you are interested in reading a more detailed explanation for what the polar vortex is and how it has or has not affected our weather this winter, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/blogs\/polar-vortex\/cold-air-its-probably-not-polar-vortex?fbclid=IwY2xjawIoRHdleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHS-jKvSXUyQHhNkIPQwGKgCHY3I3pNi0j7bCp-qAJuYmRaiZUouQP7Rr5w_aem_m0y5hJ2lMmuAhJ0IqcXWeQ\">Polar Vortex blog<\/a> from Climate.gov to see the real scoop on why our winter has been so cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/12\/polar-vortex-12-18-2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1007\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/12\/polar-vortex-12-18-2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/12\/polar-vortex-12-18-2018.jpg 1007w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/12\/polar-vortex-12-18-2018-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/12\/polar-vortex-12-18-2018-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/12\/polar-vortex-12-18-2018-209x138.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1007px) 100vw, 1007px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Visualization of stratospheric polar vortex on Dec. 18. (earth.nullschool.net)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The words &#8220;polar vortex&#8221; have been trotted out a lot this winter as waves of cold air and, sometimes, snow and ice have occurred. The polar vortex has been blamed for a lot of this activity. In fact, I saw a Facebook post from a retired Atlanta weather broadcaster that claimed we have had 11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":16276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28544","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28545,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28544\/revisions\/28545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}