Comments on Profile Post by We3_MPO

People need to stop putting chemicals in the air that trap heat, extending our Summers and liberating that polar vortex. :/

I miss the hot weather

But you Australs are lucky that you don't have to deal with a polar vortex like we do. In fact, a circumpolar ocean current traps that one, which is why the Austral Winters are usually milder than the Boreal ones. On the other hand, here in the Northern Hemisphere, climate change is weakening the jet stream...

...(and air currents are already weaker than ocean ones in terms of how much they block/transfer heat), so the polar vortex is pretty much freed, because when the planet warms, the jet stream slows down. However, it DOES still warm the half of the year from late April to mid October, like you'd expect; the polar vortex only cools in late October to mid April.

Also, sorry if you don't know what Austral and Boreal is, but Boreal means Northern, and Austral means Southern. That's why the Northern Lights are called Aurora Borealis, the Southern Lights Aurora Australis, and why Australia was named Australia (as a continent, before it was a country or British colony).

Learn something new every day mate!

That's true! Today, it was from me (at least me anyways, maybe someone/somewhere else too).

I learnt an interesting fact about attesting from the police academy that they do not teach in uni:D

The southern hemisphere also has a polar vortex, though. ;) https://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/facts/vortex_NH.html

They both HAVE polar vortices, but it's the northern one that's being freed by climate change.