“An event like this can occur naturally,” Masters said. “But with the disruption of global weather patterns that climate change is bringing, the probability of seeing unusual weather events in any season increases.”
The jet stream’s delivery of the cold straight from the Arctic is also providing half of the fuel the winter storm crossing the US will need to explode into a meteorological bomb cyclone. The other half is the abnormally warm moist air coming up from the Gulf of Mexico, which like the Atlantic as a whole is “running a fever,” Francis said. “Those huge temperature contrasts are the stuff bomb cyclones are made of.”
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