The Fair will adhere to all applicable CDC guidelines in place during the concert series, as well as any local, state, or federal guidelines. Health and safety of all parties involved – fairgoers, performers, and staff – remains the top priority. The Chevrolet Main Stage is an outdoor venue with a huge festival-type stage and experience, as well as an ADA-compliant area for guests needing special assistance. Fairgoers can enjoy these free concerts all 24 days of the Fair. This year, a total of 77 acts featured as part of the live music lineup hail from the Lone Star State. The Fair is known for being a celebration of all things Texan, and that includes our live music. After a year without live music, the State Fair is more excited than ever to provide the free concert series, which spans across multiple genres and features nationally recognized headliners, in addition to local and regional talent on the rise. One reason is that it will soon warm back up to normal when the polar vortex returns to its regular home, Cohen said.Īs for people thinking this cold outbreak disproves global warming, scientists say that’s definitely not so.The State Fair of Texas is proud to announce the lineup of FREE live music during the 2021 Fair. That’s still warmer than the 20th century average, and scientists don’t think that this month has much of a chance to be colder than the 20th century average for the globe, something that hasn’t happened since the early 1980s. The globe as a whole is about the same temperature as the average was from 1979 to 2000 for this time of year, according to the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer. It also feels colder because just before the outbreak, much of the United States was experiencing a milder-than-normal winter, with the ground not even frozen on Christmas Day in Chicago, Gensini said. The globe is much warmer than it used to be.” This Arctic outbreak has to be thought of in context. “I think it’s historic and generational,” Cohen said. Normally such waves don’t do much to the strong vortex, but occasionally the wave has enough energy to push the spinning top over, and that’s when the frigid air breaks loose, Gensini said. The polar vortex spends winter in its normal place until an atmospheric wave - the type that brings weather patterns here and there - slams into it. These used to happen once every other year or so, but research shows they are now close to happening yearly, if not more, said Judah Cohen, a winter storm expert for Atmospheric Environmental Research, a commercial firm outside of BostonThe spinning top gets toppled Several meteorologists squarely blamed the polar vortex breakdown or disruption. “The warm weather makes dog sledding and driving on snow scooters a bit of a hassle." In the eastern Greenland town of Tasiilaq, it’s been about 18 degrees warmer than normal, which “is a bit of a nuisance,” said Lars Rasmussen, a museum curator at the local cultural center. And somehow people in South Florida have been complaining about record warmth that is causing plants to bloom early. It was warmer Tuesday in parts of Greenland, Alaska, Norway and Sweden than in Texas and Oklahoma. “We’ve had everything you could possibly think of in the past week,” said Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Victor Gensini, noting that parts of the U.S. Record cold also hit Europe this winter, earning the name the “Beast from the East.” Snow fell hard not just in Chicago, but in Greece and Turkey, where it’s far less normal. Other parts of the South saw thunder snow and reports of something that seemed like a snow tornado but wasn’t. Record subzero temperatures in Texas and Oklahoma knocked millions off the power grid and into deep freezes. “It’s been unusual for a few weeks now - very, very crazy,” Francis said. “It really is the cause of all of these crazy weather events in the Northern Hemisphere.” “It’s been a major breakdown,” said Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center on Cape Cod. This week’s weather is part of a pattern stretching back to January. Meteorologists call it one of the biggest, nastiest and longest-lasting ones they’ve seen, and they’ve been watching since at least the 1950's. This particular polar vortex breakdown has been a whopper.
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