Happy to be on the warm side of the dipole finally :)
Off-the-scale cold anomalies are bound to hit the Great Lakes: https://weather.us/forecast/4887398-chicago/essentials/euro … Textbook response to the breakdown of the stratospheric polar vortex earlier #ssw. Chicago comes eerily close to its low temperature record of -27F (-33C). #severeweather #ArcticBlastpic.twitter.com/tFyldnWB4k
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I am 47, I shudder to think what the climate may be in my golden years.
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Thanks, but why are they “bound” to hit the Great Lakes more often than other northern and middle latitudes?
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because the Rockies act as an anchoring mechanism for the large scale flow. The long atmospheric waves are preferably "bend" southwards (anticyclonic) in the wake (i.e. to the east) of the Rockies.
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