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Ice, snow, wind, extreme cold, and heavy rains can all individually cause problems for both car travel and airplanes. Combined, such conditions are likely to be chaos-inducing.
Though cold weather in winter is nothing new, the root cause of this extreme storm system is a blast of air from the Arctic dipping down farther than it would normally extend. Such events, known as “polar vortexes,” are the result of low pressure and a breakdown of the standard northern latitude air currents. Some research suggests that increasingly intense polar vortexes are a side effect of climate change, which may be weakening the barrier between Arctic regions and the rest of the world via rapid polar warming.
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