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He then riffed on the vortex. “As a newsman, I want to salute whoever came up with the term ‘polar vortex,’ ” Colbert said. “It is terrifying but still sounds all science-y.

It’s been acting funny lately. It seems that as the polar ice cap melts, the Arctic Ocean’s dark surface absorbs the sun’s rays instead of bouncing them back into space, as a solid ice sheet ...

These polar vortex stretches are happening more frequently as the world — and especially the Arctic — warms, a 2021 paper published in the journal Science, also co-authored by Cohen, demonstrated.

In the winter, a disruption in the polar vortex can occur as it tends to expand in the Northern Hemisphere, pushing that cold air farther south, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).