BBC News app is running a story on how warm weather in the Arctic is linked to colder weather in the US! Such as the freezing conditions in Texas in February.
What follows is the start of the BBCreport.
“A new study shows that increases in extreme winter weather in parts of the US are linked to accelerated warming of the Arctic. The scientists found that heating in the region ultimately disturbed the circular pattern of winds known as the polar vortex.This allowed colder winter weather to flow down to the US, notably in the Texas cold wave in February.
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“”Over the past four decades, satellite records have shown how increasing global temperatures have had a profound effect on the Arctic.
“Warming in the region is far more pronounced than in the rest of the world, and has caused a rapid shrinkage of summer sea ice.”
