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A few days ago, someone posted a blog post here on HN [1] explaining the phenomenon which causes this: https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/polar-vortex

• guidedlight 6y ago
  We are also entering a solar minimum, the last one was linked to a “little ice age” in Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum I don’t know how climate change will affect this. But we might be in for an interesting few years.
  • throwawyeverytm 6y ago
    > The Maunder Minimum occurred with a much longer period of lower-than-average European temperatures which is likely to have been primarily caused by volcanic activity.[citation needed]
    • Teckla 6y ago
      There are literally two citations immediately following that sentence in the Wikipedia article.
  • CraigJPerry 6y ago
    No we just left a minimum, there’s been sunspots of opposite polarity appearing since early 2019 if memory serves - round about that timeframe anyway but the end of the minimum wasn’t confirmed until earlier in 2020. It wasn’t a Maunder Minimum. For the next 4 years or so we’ll proceed to maximum then back down to the next minimum thereafter.
• guerrilla 6y ago
  As I recall, many comments there were very dismissive. I wonder if that senrinent will change.
• tgv 6y ago
  I don't think the two are related. At least, I haven't heard anyone mention it as the cause.