A sudden warming event high in the stratosphere that is threatening to reverse a major air current found in that layer of the atmosphere has occurred, a reversal that, in turn, runs a high probability of disrupting the air currents that contain the polar vortex that circles the Arctic, somethingread more
A winter heat wave has been baking Europe in summer-like temperatures in the days following the winter solstice, and despite suffering the worst drought in 1,200 years California is under a state of emergency due to flooding caused by record-breaking rains and snowfall. Heat records have fallen across numerous European countries duringread more
The massive wildfires currently burning in Canada and the US are intense enough to generate their own weather systems, cycles of air that soar high into the atmosphere that generate their own lightning storms, sparking new fires on the ground below, then falling in powerful downdrafts that feed fresh airread more
Extreme weather conditions fueled by climate change are behind the massive wildfires burning in the Pacific Northwest and the deadly flooding that has struck Western Europe. One wildfire in Oregon alone has already burned an area larger than New York City, and more than 180 people having been killed byread more