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geardaddy

(24,926 posts) Mon Jan 6, 2014, 05:21 PM Jan 2014

Phrase of the day: "Polar Vortex"

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Woo v. Science: A DU Polar Vortex in a Teapot

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Phrase of the day: "Polar Vortex" (Original Post) geardaddy Jan 2014 OP

Why Marketers Fear The Female Polar Vortex In_The_Wind Jan 2014 #1

Austrian Airways flight 13 set to make polar vortex in downtown Insbruck rug Jan 2014 #2

Polar Vortex, Reluctant TV Star jakeXT Jan 2014 #3

In_The_Wind

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1. Why Marketers Fear The Female Polar Vortex

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Mon Jan 6, 2014, 05:37 PM

Jan 2014

rug

(82,333 posts)

2. Austrian Airways flight 13 set to make polar vortex in downtown Insbruck

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Mon Jan 6, 2014, 05:54 PM

Jan 2014

jakeXT

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3. Polar Vortex, Reluctant TV Star

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Mon Jan 6, 2014, 05:57 PM

Jan 2014

The vortex has even garnered the nickname “polar pig” after the term was used to describe a bulge of cold air, during an interview last week.

“It definitely looks like one heck of a ‘polar pig’ shot,” Kyle Cooper, director of research with IAF Advisors in Houston, told Bloomberg News on Friday.

Other wacky terms being coined include “Chiberia,” to describe record-low temperatures in Chicago. (On Monday morning, temperatures there dropped to a record -27C. The wind chill makes it feel like -50C.)

http://www.thestar.com/life/2014/01/06/add_polar_vortex_or_polar_pig_to_our_winter_lexicon.html

I want polar pig

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