Weekly Outlook: Mid-Winter on Idle

The seemingly relentless Japanese snow-mageddon abates as the Polar Vortex stamps it's mid-winter authority.

Broadscale Outlook

The polar vortex can best be described as a swirling air mass of cold air high above the troposphere throughout the winter months, acting as an engine room to the cyclical pattern that instigates and regulates the polar fronts at the mid-latitudes.

As we enter mid-winter in the Northern Hemisphere, this driver demonstrates why it’s in …