Polar Vortex 2024 March 2. The vortex is strongest during the winter and usually weakens or even disappears in the summer. 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.
Under climate change, the transfer of energy from the lowest layers of the earth’s atmosphere to the higher stratospheric layer is changing and seems to be disrupting the polar. 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.