Sentences with phrase «severe cold outbreaks»

We also increasingly recognized that loss of Arctic sea ice affects Northern Hemisphere weather patterns, including severe cold outbreaks and storm tracks.

Not exact matches

The agent belongs to the coronavirus group, which includes several common cold viruses but also the virus that causes SARS, a severe disease that killed more than 700 people during a fast - moving global outbreak in 2002 and 2003 before it was contained.

The virus, which causes severe diarrhea that kills baby pigs, thrives in cold weather, and declining immunity in the U.S. herd has raised the risk of another outbreak to the highest level since 2013, when pork prices soared to record highs, veterinarians said.

Cold air outbreaks even more severe than occurred this winter affected the United States in the early 1960s, the late 1970s (most notably 1977), and in 1983, back when the Arctic sea ice was thicker and more extensive than it is today.

The negative AO is often associated with milder weather in the Arctic but severe winter weather, including cold - air or Arctic outbreaks and snowstorms across the mid-latitudes including the Eastern United States, Europe and East Asia.

So, the most recent science shows 1) no observed relationship between global warming and winter severe weather outbreaks and 2) future «polar vortex» - associated cold outbreaks are projected to mollify — yet the White House prepares a special video proclaiming the opposite with the intent to spread climate alarm.

Surprisingly, however, over the past two to three decades, the increase in extreme weather has included more (not fewer) severe cold - air outbreaks and heavy snowfalls observed both in North America and Eurasia6, 12,15,18,22,23,24,25.