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In the atmospheric layer above it, about 10 to 30 miles up, is the stratospheric polar vortex, where every winter a sunlight-starved Arctic spins up a mass of cold air that, ultimately, dissipates ...

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The API failed to deliver the resource. The polar vortex can bring bitter cold and winter weather to areas that do not normally get it.

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