sudden stratospheric warming

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sudden stratospheric warming (countable and uncountable, plural sudden stratospheric warmings)

  1. (meteorology) A weather phenomenon where the polar vortex breaks down, causing a sudden temperature increase in the stratosphere of 50 kelvin or more.
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