LA Times: Anyone forced to shovel their car out of a snowbank this winter might wonder just how it is a blizzard can occur in a warming climate.
The answer, climate scientists say, may have to do with record sea ice losses in the Arctic.
At a Tuesday news conference, several researchers said that warming conditions in the Arctic may be weakening jet stream currents and causing extreme weather systems to linger in northern mid-latitudes.
"Ironically ... as the ice pack retreats and the Arctic heats...