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The heat spikes in the Arctic now so early on in the year and the jet stream which previously brought cold towards the Arctic now shifts the cold down in cold s
by blondie9x 9y ago
The heat spikes in the Arctic now so early on in the year and the jet stream which previously brought cold towards the Arctic now shifts the cold down in cold spikes and record cold fronts to north east and Europe. It seems we will no longer have an Arctic soon and the jet stream will be permanently shifted due to anthropogenic climate change.
We had record heat in Southern California in early February and around the same time these graphs show the Arctic temperatures spiking our temperatures began to drop. I'm afraid once the ice is almost wiped out we will expect more record high temperatures and while all the heat builds in the Arctic more record colds as the cold that was in the Arctic is dissipated to other places.
- kbutler 9y agoWhere did the jet stream previously get the cold to bring to the Arctic?
- noiv 9y agoThere is no sun light for months in Arctic winter. Usually jet streams/polar vortex keep the cold air within the high latitudes. Due to Climate Change or more specific Arctic Amplification the pressure gradient from the Equator to the North Pole flattens and tends to fail to contain the cold air which in turn can 'escape' to lower latitudes in exchange for warmer air moving into the Arctic. The whole northern hemisphere trends towards a less structured more chaotic circulation regime.
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- SlowRobotAhead 9y agoWeather isn’t climate - until it’s used as evidence for man made climate change I guess?
- pssst 9y agoAre you saying that we should expect larger/stronger cold periods in Europe ? The EU is saying that HDD (Heating Degree Days) is decreasing and it expects to further do so. [1] [1]: https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/heating-degree-days/assessment https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/heating-d...