Polar Vortex: How the Jet Stream and Climate Change Bring on Cold

Sign up to receive our latest reporting on climate change, energy and environmental justice, sent directly to your inbox. Subscribe here. The jet stream—a powerful river of wind high in the atmosphere—shapes the Northern Hemisphere’s weather, including bitter cold snaps. Because it plays a key role in weather extremes, climate scientists are striving to understand […]

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Polar Vortex: How the jet stream and climate change bring on cold

Polar Vortex: How the Jet Stream and Climate Change Bring on Cold

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The basic science for how climate change triggers severe cold

The basic science for how climate change triggers severe cold

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