Polar Vortex is fading away for summer, but leaves cool air in its die-off
Updated Apr 29, 2021;
The Polar Vortex has weakened over the past two weeks, and is now in its last stage before disappearing for summer. But the final die-off is having an opposite effect of what you might think happens in the last days of the Polar Vortex.
Here is a forecast animation showing the stronger Polar Vortex quickly weakening. The Polar Vortex is more easily visible at the beginning of this animation, which is April 29. As the circulation around the Polar Vortex weakens, we can see the stretching of the vortex to an area covering Alaska to the Great Lakes by May 10. It might be easier for you to spot the Polar Vortex by looking for the darker blue circular area in northern Canada.
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The devastating deep freeze continues to cause havoc in Texas and other southern states in the United States.
With no sign of abating until the weekend, hundreds of thousands of people remain without power and millions without clean drinking water due to frozen and burst water pipes.
At least forty seven people have already died in the two major winter storms, 30 of them in Texas alone.
Although many people have had power restored, widespread power outages are continuing. The political fallout has been immense, especially in Texas. “I want everyone to know that all of us in the state of Texas believe it is completely unacceptable that you had to endure one minute of the challenge that you faced,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said yesterday at a press conference. “We will not stop until normalcy is restored to your lives.”
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