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Climate change has tripled the frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather in the last 75 years and ...
The polar vortex could be reversing in a sudden stratospheric warming event, with the potential to send Arctic air and storms ...
These polar vortex stretches are happening more frequently as the world — and especially the Arctic — warms, a 2021 paper published in the journal Science, also co-authored by Cohen, demonstrated.
Winter, which is warming faster than any other season for much of the US, seems to be making a comeback for the first time in years; this January was the coldest in the Lower 48 since 1988.
A stretched polar vortex event played a significant role in the Arctic outbreak that froze Texas in February 2021, killing more than 200 people, according to a 2020 study.