{"id":85082,"date":"2019-02-01T16:02:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T10:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2019-02-01T16:02:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T10:32:58","slug":"whats-causing-extreme-cold-in-us-midwest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/whats-causing-extreme-cold-in-us-midwest-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s causing extreme cold in US Midwest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A record-breaking cold wave has swept through\nthe US Midwest and is stated to be caused by a polar vortex.<\/li><li>The polar vortex is a large area of low pressure\nand cold air surrounding both of the Earth\u2019s poles. The term \u201cvortex\u201d refers to\nthe counter-clockwise flow of air that helps keep the colder air near the\nPoles.<\/li><li>Polar vortex always exists near the poles, but\nweakens in summer and strengthens in winter. In winter, the north polar vortex\nsometimes becomes less stable and expands sending cold air southward with the\njet stream. This is called a polar vortex event. Jet streams are a narrow belt\nof high altitude (above 12,000 m) westerly winds in the troposphere.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A record-breaking cold wave has swept through the US Midwest and is stated to be caused by a polar vortex. The polar vortex is a large area of low pressure and cold air surrounding both of the Earth\u2019s poles. The term \u201cvortex\u201d refers to the counter-clockwise flow of air that helps keep the colder air&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/whats-causing-extreme-cold-in-us-midwest-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What\u2019s causing extreme cold in US Midwest<\/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":[4182,1738],"tags":[2211],"class_list":["post-85082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-polar-vortex","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":1,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702855953},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85082","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=85082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}