That’s because the polar vortex slid off the Arctic onto North America, allowing warmer air to creep northward on your side of the globe. I remember in '21, while we had record cold in the southern US, Siberia was on fire.
This. The meme is inaccurate in that the polar vortex is in fact currently unusually strong. It’s just unusually shaped placed. I hope the two following images show up correctly.
Strenght of the polar vortex. Blue line is this winter:
protist@mander.xyz 5 months ago
That’s because the polar vortex slid off the Arctic onto North America, allowing warmer air to creep northward on your side of the globe. I remember in '21, while we had record cold in the southern US, Siberia was on fire.
Deme@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
This. The meme is inaccurate in that the polar vortex is in fact currently unusually strong. It’s just unusually shaped placed. I hope the two following images show up correctly.
Strenght of the polar vortex. Blue line is this winter:
Image
source: weatheriscool.com
Map showing the mean geopotential height and surface (2m) temperature anomalies for this week, as forecasted on Monday by ECMW:
Image
source: charts.ecmwf.int/…/extended-anomaly-multi-param?b…
Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Parts of Siberia are still on fire. Slava Ukraine
Allero@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Glory to the heroes and all that, but gloating over the destruction is never cool.
Particularly terrible when Russians do that, but always bad no matter who says it.