polar vortex
noun
a whirling mass of very cold air that sits over the North or South Pole.
polar vortexes
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pluralof polar vortex.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Wild temperature swings, windstorms, wildfires and polar vortexes can destroy a season’s crops, and entire farms, in minutes.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 25, 2021
Antarctica is surrounded by vast stretches of ocean on all sides, and those watery expanses only occasionally produce the kind of large-scale weather systems that disrupt polar vortexes.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2021
In addition to requiring extreme cold, polar vortexes also need to be able to form undisturbed.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2021
Both of these Northern Hemisphere polar vortexes were especially strong this winter, but we’re mainly concerned with the tropospheric polar vortex here, the one that’s in the layer closest to the surface of the Earth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2020
It will surely prove more sophisticated than anything New Yorkers shrieked into the polar vortexes.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2014
