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Why are we seeing heavy snow in south Louisiana? It's about timing and the 'polar vortex.'
The cold temperatures are coming from a not uncommon expansion in the Polar Vortex, which are counter-clockwise rotating air ...
‘Once in a lifetime’ snow hits parts of the U.S. South
The National Weather Service's Lake Charles, Louisiana, office issued its first-ever blizzard warning Tuesday. The NWS' ...
Here’s how much snow fell in the South during the historic storm
As historic snowfall — in some places more than double-digit totals — fell Tuesday along the Gulf Coast and in the Deep South ...
A powerful Polar Vortex in the stratosphere brings frigid temperatures to US
The polar vortex's blast of Arctic air from Canada brought the season's coldest weather to the majority of U.S. The vortex is ...
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The science behind the polar vortex
This cold was certainly extraordinary, but the polar vortex event of January 2019 brought life in the northern and central United States to a frozen halt. At that time in our area, the coldest actual ...
What is a polar vortex?
This blast of frozen temperatures is tied to a polar vortex... but what is that? Air spins around the notoriously cold North and South Poles. When the air is spinning fast, it's stable, but when it is ...