The idea for the polar wind originated with the desire to solve the paradox of the terrestrial helium budget.

They weren't dressed for the top of the world, and even though the infamous polar winds had gone to bed, the air bit with wolfish teeth.

A cold polar wind hooted in the eroded bluffs, chilling my face and hands.

Relief slammed into his chest like a polar wind.

Then he thought of Rita, and his blood ran colder than it would have if he'd been naked in the merciless polar wind.

Her gaze was as cold as the polar wind.

It rippled around him in the polar wind.

One day the polar wind takes away Vegard and his wife Una.

Yet, from whence else would come that magic of polar winds and an ice-elemental?

A key factor is the polar winds that can drive the sound's pack ice into the Ross Sea summer or winter.