Cold outbreaks like this are getting warmer (less frequent) due to global warming, but cold waves still occur somewhere in North America almost every winter.
Not exact matches
The relationship between climate and the flu looks simple in places
like North America and Europe: Winter's
colder and drier weather means more
outbreaks.
And yes as a Biologist I am well aware that there were malaria
outbreaks in
cold climates
like Russia, but it is the summers that enable greater yields in the dormancy phases and it is the humidity that can create more conducive environments to Anopheles mosquitoes.
«Take unusually warm Atlantic ocean surface temperatures (temperatures are in the 70s off the coast of Virginia), add a
cold Arctic
outbreak (something we'll continue to get even as global warming proceeds), mix them together and you get huge amounts of energy and moisture, and monster snowfalls,
like we're about to see here,» said Michael Mann, a climate researcher who directs Penn State University's earth systems science center.