{"id":126754,"date":"2025-11-09T20:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T20:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/126754\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T20:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T20:35:07","slug":"rising-polar-vortex-threat-may-drive-up-winter-heating-bills-in-us-asia-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/126754\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising Polar Vortex Threat May Drive Up Winter Heating Bills in US, Asia, Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The odds of extreme cold this winter in the US, Asia and parts of Europe are climbing, threatening to boost energy bills for consumers already grappling with high costs and economic uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">With the season\u2019s start just weeks away, meteorologists see many of the same conditions that led to one of the warmest winters on record last year for the Northern Hemisphere. But there\u2019s one key difference: Signs are emerging that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-01-11\/polar-vortex-explained-how-freezing-arctic-air-drops-south\" title=\"Polar Vortex Is About to Unleash Teeth-Chattering Cold Across US (1)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">polar vortex<\/a>, the girdle of winds around the Arctic, could weaken and allow frigid air to spill southward. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The odds of extreme cold this winter in the US, Asia and parts of Europe are climbing, threatening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[363,2300,607,273,2024,37592,3090,2518,88076,1759,220,111,139,69,644,147,88077],"class_list":{"0":"post-126754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-asia","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-gas-prices","14":"tag-global-warming","15":"tag-green","16":"tag-hydro-power","17":"tag-japan","18":"tag-markets","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-newzealand","21":"tag-nz","22":"tag-retail","23":"tag-science","24":"tag-visual-china-group-co-ltd-a"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}