Polar Vortex 2024 News Now. The culprit for the disruption lies on a sudden atmospheric warming caused by planetary waves that jostle the stratosphere from below and can reverse a vortex's. Nasa's atmospheric infrared sounder instrument aboard the aqua satellite captured the polar vortex as it moved southward from central canada into the u.s.
First up, the current stratospheric conditions are primed. The atmospheric players have been positioning themselves again for another polar vortex disruption.
