Last week the National Weather Service began warning that a cold snap was on the way for most of the Midwestern states, moving as far south as Oklahoma. The NWS mistakenly used the term “polar vortex” to describe the blast of chilly air which should begin in Michigan around Sunday, but quickly corrected itself. The […]
A recent study seems to show that fast increases in Arctic temperatures are moving the high-altitude air current, which, in turn, may be responsible for the wintry blast that has swept across North America. A swirling mixture of jet streams, polar vortexes and a warmer-than-normal Arctic have conspired to make the most recent winter in […]
A satellite photo taken of Lake Michigan on January 28, 2014 shows heavy ice coverage, which helps experts predict higher lake levels in the future. Michigan was recently subjected to what is being referred to as a Polar Vortex. It dropped a record amount of snow on the area and brought freezing and almost unbearable […]
