A warming Arctic can actually make our winters colder

Can you say polar vortex?

Popular Science
Sep 26, 2017 · 4 min read
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Partial view of the Chicago Skyline, as steam rises from Lake Michigan due to the ‘Polar Vortex’ sending temperatures well below zero in Chicago, Illinois on JANUARY 07, 2014 — Raymond Boyd/Getty Images

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

The winter of 2014–2015 is remembered, at least by many, as the winter that the city of Boston lost its mind. That is the winter when New England — a region synonymous with frost — managed to capture national attention for receiving what can only be described as preposterous levels…

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