Extreme heat in Arizona, extreme flooding in Canada. El Niño is really gearing up.

  • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Not a scientist. George Monbiot wrote about this. The new paper explores the impacts on crop production when meanders in the jet stream (Rossby waves) become stuck. Stuck patterns cause extreme weather. To put it crudely, if you live in the northern hemisphere and a kink in the jet stream (the band of strong winds a few miles above the Earth’s surface at mid-latitudes) is stuck to the south of you, your weather is likely to be cold and wet. If it’s stuck to the north of you, you’re likely to suffer escalating heat and drought.