In a world getting used to extreme weather, 2023 is starting out bonkers. Meteorologists are saying it's typical weather weirdness, with a boost from human-caused climate change.
Nurse Katie Leonard uses a kayak to bring supplies to Patsy Costello, 88, as she sits trapped in her vehicle Dec. 31 on Astrid Drive in Pleasant Hill, Calif.. Costello drove her car on the flooded street thinking she could make it, but it stalled in the two feet of water.
At least one highway in drought-mired California looked more like a river because of torrential rain from what is technically called an atmospheric river of moisture. New Year's brought shirtsleeve weather to the U.S. East and record high temperatures to Europe as the Northern Hemisphere on Wednesday was more than 2.6 degrees hotter than the late 20th century average. And this is after frigid air escaped the Arctic to create a Christmas mess for much of the United States.
"I'd describe the jet stream and bomb cyclones as a runaway Pacific freight train loaded with moisture," said Maue, former chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the Trump administration."Climate change adds more fuel to the locomotive engine." And with a wavier than normal jet stream, extremes of all kinds go up and down and around the planet, Francis said.
Swiss weather service MeteoSuisse quipped on its blog:"... this turn of the new year could almost make you forget that it's the height of winter."
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