{"id":41427,"date":"2019-01-31T17:04:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T11:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=41427"},"modified":"2019-01-31T17:04:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T11:34:43","slug":"mercury-plunges-after-artic-chills-sweep-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mercury-plunges-after-artic-chills-sweep-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury plunges after artic chills sweep America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/\">Mercury plunges after artic chills sweep America<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Arctic front plunged into the Washington region of USA, bringing very cold temperatures<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Cause:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A swirl of arctic air broke away from the polar vortex that usually encircles the North Pole and moved south towards America<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Polar Vortex: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The polar vortex is a large area of low pressure and cold air surrounding both of the Earth\u2019s poles. It always exists near the poles, but weakens in summer and strengthens in winter.<\/li>\n<li>The term &#8220;vortex&#8221; refers to the counter-clockwise flow of air that helps keep the colder air near the Poles.<\/li>\n<li>Often during winter in the Northern Hemisphere, the polar vortex will become less stable and expand, sending cold Arctic air southward over the United States<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercury plunges after artic chills sweep America News An Arctic front plunged into the Washington region of USA, bringing very cold temperatures Important facts Cause: A swirl of arctic air broke away from the polar vortex that usually encircles the North Pole and moved south towards America Polar Vortex: The polar vortex is a large&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mercury-plunges-after-artic-chills-sweep-america\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mercury plunges after artic chills sweep America<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703893280},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}