Archive for November 22nd, 2016
With the exception of last winter, the dominant Gulf of Alaska warm pool drove a warm Western/cold Eastern North America winter pattern from 2013 to 2015. The El Nino overruled everything last year. The lack of arctic sea ice those years on the North America/NE Asia side of the pole helped drive a strong blocking high from eastern equatorial […]
Recent winters here on the Europe side of the pole has seen strong Atlantic influence thanks to a strong polar vortex positioned between Greenland and Scandinavia which has driven a strong westerly flow into Western Europe with low pressure firmly anchored near Iceland. Why The Recent Warm, Wet, Stormy Winters And Why This Year Is Very Different This […]
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