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The 1985 North America cold wave [1] was a meteorological event which occurred in January 1985 as a result of the shifting of the polar vortex farther south than is normally seen. [1] Blocked from its normal movement, polar air from the north pushed into nearly every section of the central and eastern half of the United States and Canada ...
1985–1986. 1985 Great Western cold air outbreak – February 1985 saw the contiguous U.S.'s second-coldest temperature of −69 °F (−56.1 °C) in Peter Sinks, Utah. About a month of severe cold affected a large part of the nation. 1985 became the fourth-coldest calendar year on record in the Pacific Northwest. [citation needed]
The following is a list of weather events that occurred on Earth in the year 1985. The year began with a La Niña. [1] The most common weather events to have a significant impact are blizzards, cold waves, droughts, heat waves, wildfires, floods, tornadoes, and tropical cyclones.
Instead, Pacific storms can usher less cold air into the West, even in the heart of winter. In Alaska, the coldest time of year is usually in January. ... the January 1985 cold outbreak set ...
“A disrupted polar vortex increases the odds that the tropospheric jet stream will stay shifted farther south, which increases the risk for cold air outbreaks,” according to the Polar Vortex ...
1985 North American cold wave; 1985 Puerto Rico floods; B. Hurricane Bob (1985) H. ... 1985 United States–Canada tornado outbreak This page was last ...
An arctic cold outbreak will plunge not just through the Midwest and East, but also the Deep South and this chilly pattern is likely to last through the middle of the month. Where the cold is now ...
A circumpolar vortex, or simply polar vortex, is a large region of cold, rotating air; ... as during the Winter 1985 Arctic outbreak. [21] ...