Still cold here downeast but Lamoine Beach is profoundly different on #springequinox than it was during the polar vortex. #mainelife
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An intriguing reply from @crotter8 https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/finland-ice-balls-trnd/index.html led me to a trove of info on the rare ice ball or ice egg phenomenon we stumbled on in Maine as the #polarvortex ebbed today. Wikipedia, as always: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_eggs Here'…
https://twitter.com/Revkin/status/1622079500723814404

Insane contrast to the same Maine Beach as the #polarvortex passed last week.
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Grateful to be able to start the work day after a low-tide walk. #mainelife #ocean https://t.co/8nPl6J4OpI
https://twitter.com/Revkin/status/1623696231175159811

It ain’t over til it’s over. . .
#PolarVortex

How a predicted polar-vortex disruption could spur winter’s revenge https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/02/09/polar-vortex-sudden-stratospheric-warming/

An intriguing reply from @crotter8 https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/finland-ice-balls-trnd/index.html led me to a trove of info on the rare ice ball or ice egg phenomenon we stumbled on in Maine as the #polarvortex ebbed today. Wikipedia, as always: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_eggs Here's one more bit of video from Lamoine Beach.
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RT @revkin
With the #polarvortex moderating we got out to Lamoine Beach in balmy 4°F & 20-knot winds…
https://twitter.com/Revkin/status/1621987880582234112

#today (assuming that starts at midnight) kept the fire going all night in the woodstove, which is our backup for the heat pump that stops working at -14°F. Temps dropped to -19°F and stayed below heat pump range until almost 10am. Then slept all day! #PolarVortex #ColdFront #weather #Vermont

And off into the distance they go... #mainelife #polarvortex #weirdice ⤵️

With the #polarvortex moderating we got out to Lamoine Beach in balmy 4°F & 20-knot winds and found some remarkably strange knobbly ice balls arrayed in remarkable neat patterns. I know it's all physics but sure can get weird results! Start close up then zoom out.. 🧵⤵️..

I'd love to know if any trees have burst or exploded in the sharp #polarvortex outbreak over Maine and the Northeast. In Lamoine, tree trunks were certainly making insanely unnerving cracking noises through the night. More video & context: https://revkin.substack.com/p/tracking-a-flash-17-f-polar-vortex
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RT @PineTreeWeather
I got a report of trees exploding from the sub zero temperatures in Farmington. There is all kinds of craz…
https://twitter.com/PineTreeWeather/status/1621618301209034752

Via @JackSillin. Mount Washington briefly in the stratosphere thanks to the #polarvortex.
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RT @forecaster25
INSANE conditions on Mt Washington, NH. 120mph+ winds and -95°F wind chill. It is above the tropopause, meaning that these are stratospheric winds.

Footage from the summit live stream 2:30-2:40pm. #nhwx
https://twitter.com/forecaster25/status/1621598650022363142

The steamy gusts over Skillings inlet at dawn remind me of my April 2003 reporting trip to the sea ice at the North Pole. Very similar temperature, which isn’t surprising given that’s where this air mass came from. #mainelife in a #PolarVortex outbreak
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Morning, world. Here is the sound of a heat pump in defrost mode and deep frozen trees creaking eerily with temperatures at -12 Fahrenheit, windchill -36. #mainelife as an epic…
https://twitter.com/Revkin/status/1621842353555226624

Ack! #PolarVortex
Great Northern Catskills

Frost quakes reported in far northern Maine as the #polarvortex chill sweeps through. An explainer from Canada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpRPYrSN-L0

Anyone else addicted to @Windycom when weather is wild and woolly? We're at -14F / -38F wind chill at the moment on the downeast Maine coast. Scroll up for closeup view and sounds👆https://www.windy.com/-Temperature-temp?temp,2023021300,59.356,-56.947,3 #PolarVortex

Over the sound of the heat pump, listen to the cracking and creaking of the wind-torqued trees at -12°F (-38 wind chill) here in coastal Maine. #PolarVortex #deepfreeze #mainelife
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RT @revkin
Living this #polarvortex outbreak in Lamoine, #Maine. Without wind chill we're now at -10° F (7pm ET). Good test of our Samsung ductless heat pump (with wood stove cranking and propane generator ready). My sequence of video snippets and more here: …
https://twitter.com/Revkin/status/1621667714291957761

Living this #polarvortex outbreak in Lamoine, #Maine. Without wind chill we're now at -10° F (7pm ET). Good test of our Samsung ductless heat pump (with wood stove cranking and propane generator ready). My sequence of video snippets and more here:
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RT @axios
The coldest air in the Northern Hemisphere is invading New England. Just look at Saturday morning's wind chill forecast:

🥶 NYC: -10°F
🥶 Boston: -33°F
🥶 northern Maine: -60°F
https:…
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1621601602434908161

Why do I feel like hot garbage today? *checks hygrometer* 11% humidity in here (heat running a lot right now due #polarvortex ). Ya, that dryness might be why... #Pulpcoverart added for funsies.

As the sun sets, 4:45 pm ET here in Lamoine Maine, temperature has dropped to -6° F. Stay safe and make sure your neighbors are, too. As I've been ranting, the federal government should create http://cold.gov to go with http://heat.gov! > https://revkin.substack.com/p/tracking-a-flash-17-f-polar-vortex
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Just hit 0° F here in Lamoine Maine (not counting the wind chill) - a bit earlier than forecast, and the #polarvortex outbrea…
https://twitter.com/Revkin/status/1621592051794976769

Just hit 0° F here in Lamoine Maine (not counting the wind chill) - a bit earlier than forecast, and the #polarvortex outbreak deep freeze is nowhere near peak. Happily local radio/tv are doing a great job alerting folks to heating centers. More: https://revkin.substack.com/p/tracking-a-flash-17-f-polar-vortex #coldwave

Accurate photo of my legs after dropping my kid off at school in -30ºc today. Today's polar vortex is no joke.

I also need a longer coat that goes down to my ankles.

#toronto #weather #polarvortex #windchill

Well. crap. It's fucking cold today and I only just got warm again. Took me 30 minutes after waking up to stop being cold. #toronto #polar #vortex #polarvortex