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Stratospheric polar vortex changes still trigger brutal U.S. winter cold snaps and extreme weather despite a warming climate.

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In the stratosphere over Siberia, temperatures recently jumped nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit, shoving the polar vortex off its North Pole perch.

This winter, with record snow in New Orleans and drought and destructive wildfires in Southern California, has not been normal.

This is the hemispheric polar vortex—not the big bad polar vortex from television weather, but a permanent, extensive feature centered on both poles.