WASHINGTON (7News) — Does this winter feel colder than most? It's possibly due to a weather phenomena called "cross-polar flow". Cross-polar flow is what happens when disruptions in the polar vortex ...

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Cross-polar flow describes a unique meteorological setup most common during the winter. This is often responsible for many of the intense Arctic outbreaks that occur in the U.S. each decade. For cross ...