In a world getting used to extreme weather, 2023 is starting out more bonkers than ever and meteorologists are saying it's natural weather weirdness with a bit of help from human-caused climate change.
The jet stream now is unusually wavy, said Maue and Woodwell Climate Research Center climate scientist Jennifer Francis. The storms dip over the warm subtropics “and create a conveyor belt of of moisture to strafe the West Coast of the U.S,” Maue said.
Francis points to a “blob” of warm sea water off the Aleutian Islands, a phenomena that is happening more often, and a ’’crazy warm” Arctic -- Wednesday it was 5.8 degrees warmer than the 1979-2000 average -- as part of what’s juicing up the Pacific. Swiss weather service MeteoSuisse quipped on its blog: “... this turn of the new year could almost make you forget that it’s the height of winter.”
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