Polar Vortex 2024 February. What is the polar vortex? Early data shows that the polar vortex is likely to be weaker than normal in the winter of 2024/2025.

Based on the january 15, 2024 forecast, the stratospheric polar vortex winds will decrease to zero, just reaching the threshold of a major sudden stratospheric warming, in the next day or two. Now, meteorologists say there’s evidence that a polar vortex disruption will send temperatures plummeting in the u.s.