常時英心:言葉の森から 1.0

約10年間,はてなダイアリーで英語表現の落穂拾いを行ってきました。現在はAmeba Blogに2.0を開設し,継続中です。こちらはしばらくアーカイブとして維持します。

'Polar Vortex'

米国北東部にいすわっている寒気は 'Polar Vortex' (「極冠」)と呼ばれています。日本列島に影響を与えているのも同じ大気の流れだそうです。以前、先生からvortexは「渦巻、旋風、興奮」とおそわったことがありますのでネットワークが出来ました。

Frigid 'Polar Vortex' Cripples US for Second Straight Day

Deadly cold temperatures refused to loosen their grip on much of the country for a second straight day, spreading the bone-chilling weather this time to the Northeast and South.
Wind chill advisories and warnings today are in effect for 32 states from Montana to southern Florida today. Washington D.C. is expected to see its coldest morning in 18 years and if they get to 5 degrees today, it will tie a daily record low that was set 130 years ago. The wind chill in the nation's capital is expected to be eight below zero. Detroit is forecasting a high temperature of 1 degree below zero and a wind chill of minus 37 degrees.

The unrelenting cold will push wind chills in northern Florida to as low as 9 degrees and minus 6 degrees in Atlanta. In New York City just before dawn Tuesday, temperatures were in the single digits and the wind howled, sending commuters sucrrying down wind-swept streets.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/frigid-polar-vortex-cripples-us-straight-day/story?id=21444355