El Nino at work: Freak heatwave in the ArcticSome strange things are afoot in the world’s weat
El Nino at work: Freak heatwave in the ArcticSome strange things are afoot in the world’s weather with the current strong El Nino disrupting rainfall and temperature patterns around the globe. On Wednesday the North Pole reached a balmy (and unprecedented in modern records) 0 degrees Celcius, a full 20 above the usual average. The same complex jet stream system is also bringing mild temperatures to parts of the US and sending an atmospheric river across the Atlantic to drench England with rain (see links to past posts at bottom). The depression in the Atlantic is powerful enough to suck warmer air up from further south, covering the boreal regions in a warm blanket. At a monitoring station 300km from the Pole now stuck in its months long night, the temperature changed from -37 on Monday, through -8 on Tuesday and shot up to yesterday’s 0-2. The warm air is expected to wander over Siberia next, giving them a taste of unusual warmth. Baffin Island also recorded its first ever December rainfall. The Arctic is already heating up faster than most of the globe, with average temperatures being 3 degrees more than a couple of centuries ago.The other posts in this series:http://on.fb.me/1OSg0dHhttp://on.fb.me/1JEC5Lahttp://on.fb.me/1SjYm8ehttp://on.fb.me/1PuX6OQhttp://on.fb.me/1NUmrwUhttp://on.fb.me/1RT7l0MLozImage credit: NASAhttp://bit.ly/1OyJpPR -- source link
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