Converging Weather Patterns Caused Last Winter's Huge Snows

 

Converging Weather Patterns Caused Last Winter's Huge Snows
Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:36:00 -0500

The memory of last winter's blizzards may be fading in this summer's searing heat, but scientists studying them have detected a perfect storm of converging weather patterns that had little relation to climate change. The extraordinarily cold, snowy weather that hit parts of the U.S. East Coast and Europe was the result of a collision of two periodic weather patterns in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, a new study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds.

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The Earth Institute at Columbia University

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