Topic - Judah Cohen

If this type of pattern in the atmosphere happened two months earlier, he said, “we’d be talking about a crippling snowstorm in the Northeastern U.S., not just a wet start to Memorial Day weekend.”

Nor'easter brings rain and chance of snow to New England before Memorial Day →

A stretched polar vortex like this one happens lower in the atmosphere and is different than when the polar vortex has sudden warming, weakens and all the cold air escapes south and out of the poles, Cohen said.

U.S. to get 10th polar vortex this winter →