Boston Globe explains mechanism linking El Niño to vortex disruption
6Nov 3 8:18 AM · 5d ago · 1 post · 1 comment · 2 sources · development 6 of 6
Detailed analysis describes how record-warm El Niño produces intense surface heating that propagates northward through Rossby Waves, triggering sudden stratospheric warming that weakens the polar vortex—a chain of events normally concentrated in January–February but occurring in early November.
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“For weather and climate records, that is really unheard of. When a temperature record in Boston is broken, let's say the hottest temperature ever, 106 degrees, and then all of a sudden one day this summer Boston hit 120 degrees, it would be that astonishing.”
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I have no idea how they do it. We'd used to get so much snow every year and a 27c summer day was considered unbearable heat. Mind you this was in the early 2000s. I'm not that old and I remember all this stuff. Now I'm still thinking if I should mow my lawn again.
