Polar Vortex: How the Jet Stream and Climate Change Bring on Cold Snaps

Published On: January 21, 2019

By CLIMATE STATE

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Polar Vortex: How the Jet Stream and Climate Change Bring on Cold Snaps.

Temperatures are rising much faster in the Arctic than the global average (“Arctic Amplification”). https://twitter.com/ZLabe/status/1086714347399700480
Broward County declares cold weather emergency https://news.google.com/?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen
Be careful and try staying in your house. Large parts of the Country are suffering from tremendous amounts of snow and near record setting cold. Amazing how big this system is. Wouldn’t be bad to have a little of that good old fashioned Global Warming right now! https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1086971499725160448
Climate Denial Crock of the Week “It’s cold. So there’s no Climate Change” (2009) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0JsdSDa_bM
If There’s Climate Change, Why am I Freezing? (2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISaFXF9Sxiw
Here is my “official” 3D animation of this year’s stratospheric #PolarVortex split. https://twitter.com/zd1awrence/status/1084935021171924992
Q&A: How is Arctic warming linked to the ‘polar vortex’ and other extreme weather? https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-how-is-arctic-warming-linked-to-polar-vortext-other-extreme-weather

Tags: 2019, Atmosphere, Climate Feedback, Extreme Weather, Jet Stream, Polar Vortex, Video, Weather

Categories: Atmosphere, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Impacts, Sea Ice, Temperature, Video

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