Friedman: Accelerated Arctic Warming May Slow Summer Jet Stream
Andrew Friedman · A heat limit ‘no meteorologist thought we would cross’ · Jul 27, 2022 · at 14:32
Axios climate journalist Andrew Friedman discusses the atmospheric mechanisms connecting climate change and Arctic amplification to unusual European weather patterns.
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“And this dual jet stream structure does seem to have some sort of potential influence from climate change, specifically the change in the difference between the temperature at the equator and the temperature in the Arctic, because the temperature in the Arctic, as we know, is warming so much faster than the rest of the globe, and that may be slowing down the jet stream a little bit, especially in the summertime, and encouraging these double jet structures to appear.”
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