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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

In addition to requiring extreme cold, polar vortexes also need to be able to form undisturbed.

From Washington Post • Oct. 9, 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

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

Since we visited two years ago, said Mr. Carew, 58, polar vortexes curtailed his winter business and it became harder to find instructors.

From New York Times • May 22, 2015