Breaking it down, the 10 - day spate of extremely frigid days was the result of
typical winter weather patterns, intensified by a clash in temperatures between the western US, which is experiencing global warming at a faster pace than the eastern US.
Responding to the extreme
weather that gripped the eastern coast of the US this
winter, Yannick Peings continued: «Unlike the 2012/2013
winter, this
winter had rather low values of the AMO index and the
pattern of sea surface temperature anomalies was not consistent with the
typical positive AMO
pattern.