| 1. | The Antarctic polar vortex is more pronounced and persistent than the Arctic one.
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| 2. | La Ni�a related climate anomalies significantly strengthen the polar vortex.
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| 3. | A "'polar vortex "'is an upper level low-pressure area lying near the Earth's pole.
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| 4. | Stratospheric warming of the polar vortex results in its weakening.
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| 5. | Strengthening storm systems within the troposphere that cool the poles, intensify the polar vortex.
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| 6. | The breakup of the northern polar vortex occurs between mid March to mid May.
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| 7. | The result is the polar air forms a coherent rotating air mass : the polar vortex.
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| 8. | Miner testified that the 2014 polar vortex contributed to the increase in Syracuse's water main break.
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| 9. | In the autumn, the circumpolar winds increase in speed and the polar vortex rises into the stratosphere.
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| 10. | However, at the outer boundary of the polar vortex, in winter, the stratospheric polar night jet exists.
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