A melting Arctic and weird weather: the plot thickens

Edited Suomi NPP image centered on the Great Lakes region of North America showing the extent of the snow and cities in the night. Stuart Rankin via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/24354425@N03/15613184294/) | CC BY-NC
Author
Jennifer Francis
Year
2015
Published in
The Conversation US, Inc.

Is a wavier polar jet stream driving the bizarre weather this winter has served up?

Jennifer Francis from Rutgers University summarizes what scientists have been able to piece together and suggests that continued Arctic warming may cause these weather patterns to be the norm,as opposed to the bizarre.

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