Boy: A polar vortex is coming! I'm so excited!
Mrs. Olsen: You don't even know what a polar vortex is.
Boy: You wouldn't believe how much that helps in the emotional-response department.
Think of the polar vortex as a planetary yarmulke. Normally it stays right on top of the “head”, but occasionally it slips down over one “eye”. This turns out to be good news for the other side of the planet.
Not dumb, but a kid being a kid, and in a strip, having to help set up the punch line. Having smart 8 year olds is common in strips. Calvin, Gracie, Edison Lee and others are just like them.
The Polar Vortex is nothing more than the area receiving the least solar energy, and therefore having the least thermal energy. Air flowing in shrinks and loses moisture as it cools. It does not move. What does happen is that other low pressure systems can cause cold polar air to be drawn down on the trailing edge of their cyclonic flow. A moving Polar Vortex is wholly imaginary and contrived by the popularization of meteorology by people who have no founding in the physical sciences. If you watch the infrared time-lapse available on weather.gov, you can watch these things in action.
garcoa over 7 years ago
I’m sure I read on the Internet that they are an endangered species now. Let’s start a fund for that.
sandpiper over 7 years ago
Are Mrs. Olsen and the student ‘polar opposites?’
whiteheron over 7 years ago
Oh this one will turn ugly.
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Heat pumps are not meant for this cold weather. Good thing we have gas logs to supplement our HP.
rshive over 7 years ago
Sounds like fun. I live in the area where the famous “cold Canadian air” meets the equally famous “warm moist Gulf air” That’s always fun too.
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 7 years ago
…i got rain…
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 7 years ago
Think of the polar vortex as a planetary yarmulke. Normally it stays right on top of the “head”, but occasionally it slips down over one “eye”. This turns out to be good news for the other side of the planet.
The Legend of Brandon Sawyer over 7 years ago
What you don’t know can’t hurt you
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 7 years ago
Not dumb, but a kid being a kid, and in a strip, having to help set up the punch line. Having smart 8 year olds is common in strips. Calvin, Gracie, Edison Lee and others are just like them.
Brass Orchid Premium Member over 7 years ago
The Polar Vortex is nothing more than the area receiving the least solar energy, and therefore having the least thermal energy. Air flowing in shrinks and loses moisture as it cools. It does not move. What does happen is that other low pressure systems can cause cold polar air to be drawn down on the trailing edge of their cyclonic flow. A moving Polar Vortex is wholly imaginary and contrived by the popularization of meteorology by people who have no founding in the physical sciences. If you watch the infrared time-lapse available on weather.gov, you can watch these things in action.