Polar Vortex 2024 California. The arctic polar vortex is a band of winds that forms in the stratosphere between “about 10 and 30 miles above the north pole every winter”, according to the. Based on the january 15, 2024 forecast, the stratospheric polar vortex winds will decrease to zero, just reaching the threshold of a major sudden stratospheric warming, in the next day or.

On december 5, 2023, climate.gov published the first post in a new blog about the polar vortex. And while the first two weeks of february are likely to be milder than average in the northeast, uncertainty increases during the second half of the month, possibly linked to a.